| Presentation | 2012-05-25 Two preliminary surveys on blind persons' needs for tactile station plans and on station plans on the Web : For automatically making station plans tangible Tetsuya WATANABE, Toshimitsu YAMAGUCHI, Shota MASUDA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Before developing software which automatically makes station plans tangible, two preliminary surveys were conducted on blind persons' needs for tactile station plans and on station plans on the Web. The user needs survey showed the presence of needs for tactile station plans among younger generations, ultraviolet curing resin is most preferable as the way to produce tactile maps, tactile maps are desired to be delivered before visiting stations, and which facilities should be included in tactile maps. The Web survey revealed that station plans can be found on the Web for 31.6% of about 9,000 stations nationwide, 74.6% of them are GIF files, their projection methods are plain, one-point perspective, and isometric projection (about 30% each), which facilities are found in many station plans. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Blind Persons / Tactile Maps / Station Plans / User Needs Survey / Web Survey |
| Paper # | WIT2012-4 |
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| Committee | WIT |
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| Conference Date | 2012/5/18(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Two preliminary surveys on blind persons' needs for tactile station plans and on station plans on the Web : For automatically making station plans tangible |
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| Keyword(1) | Blind Persons |
| Keyword(2) | Tactile Maps |
| Keyword(3) | Station Plans |
| Keyword(4) | User Needs Survey |
| Keyword(5) | Web Survey |
| 1st Author's Name | Tetsuya WATANABE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Department of Biocybernetics, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Toshimitsu YAMAGUCHI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Shota MASUDA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University |
| Date | 2012-05-25 |
| Paper # | WIT2012-4 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | 65 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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