| Presentation | 2005/12/8 Relation between Speed and Pressure during Braille Reading : Measurement of Pressure of Fingers using a Surface Pressure Measurement System Tetsuya WATANABE, Susumu OOUCHI, Takeshi KANEKO, Toshimitsu YAMAGUCHI, Makoto SHIMOJO, Shigenobu SHIMADA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The purpose of our study is to investigate the relation between contact pressure of fingers during braille reading and the reading skill measured by speed. For this purpose we have introduced a pressure measurement system using pressure sensitive conductive ink and performed experiments with braille readers as subjects. Reading speeds of five participants varied from 7.51 to 10.87. These speeds are very fast and it can be said that they were experienced and skillful readers. Contact pressures were measured while they were asked to read braille with a finger of their dominant hand. One subject showed an average value of 80-90 gf whereas those of other four subjects were around 10 gf. Newly observed phenomena were reduced contact pressure during the sweeps of fingers from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line and small but frequent variance of pressure whithin one line. Our futrue work is to increase the number of subjects, especially inexperienced braille readers, to explore the relation between contact pressure and reading speed in the wide range. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Blind Persons / Braille / Contact Pressure / Reading Speed / Pressure Sensitive Conductive Ink |
| Paper # | HIP2005-92 |
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| Conference Date | 2005/12/8(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Relation between Speed and Pressure during Braille Reading : Measurement of Pressure of Fingers using a Surface Pressure Measurement System |
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| Keyword(1) | Blind Persons |
| Keyword(2) | Braille |
| Keyword(3) | Contact Pressure |
| Keyword(4) | Reading Speed |
| Keyword(5) | Pressure Sensitive Conductive Ink |
| 1st Author's Name | Tetsuya WATANABE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Education() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Susumu OOUCHI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Education |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takeshi KANEKO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Education |
| 4th Author's Name | Toshimitsu YAMAGUCHI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Education |
| 5th Author's Name | Makoto SHIMOJO |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | The University of Electro-Communications, Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems |
| 6th Author's Name | Shigenobu SHIMADA |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | The University of Electro-Communications, Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems |
| Date | 2005/12/8 |
| Paper # | HIP2005-92 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.105 |
| Number (no) | 479 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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