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Kazuhito Ujima
Japan.
Tel: +81 89 922 3655
Fax: +81 89 922 2893
Email: ujiman@dokidoki.ne.jp
Web: www.dokidoki.ne.jp/home2/ujiman/ and www.web-con.jp/

Current & recent projects

The Rule of Using Font Size for Projection Teaching Materials for those with Low Vision
Co-workers: Hirosuke Shimada, Koichi Oda
Font size of teaching materials via projector are set by the publishers. Research carried out to look at the font size for those with low vision.
Project start date: 01/04/2003
Project end date: 26/03/2004

Last updated: 06/01/2005

Dr. Simon Ungar
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 1483 686895
Fax: +44 1483 686906
Email: s.ungar@surrey.ac.uk
Web: www.surrey.ac.uk/~pss1su/
Publications

Current & recent projects

Psychological factors in the use of tactile maps by blind and visually impaired adults and children.
Although tactile maps have been available for a long time, the way in which blind and visually impaired people acquire and represent map information is poorly understood. In particular, the perception that some blind individuals cannot access spatial information tactually has generally been taken at face value and not investigated critically. My research in this area has followed a number of strands: 1) investigation of strategies used to explore, acquire and store information from tactile maps; 2) determining precursors of tactile map reading skill; 3) the potential of tactile maps for providing blind children with mental spatial representations of their environment.

An integrated user-centred design and manufacture process for tactile maps using innovative print technology (www.timp.org.uk)
Co-workers: Derek Sheldon, Helen Petrie, Jonathan Rowell, Sandra Jehoel, Don McCallum, Snir Dinar, Kafael Ahmed, Steve Carey
This ongoing project has the following aims: 1) to develop a set of cognitively-based principles for the design of tactile maps and diagrams for use by blind and visually impaired people; 2) to establish protocols in keeping with the developing tactile print technology to enable the proposal of a standard for sets of signs and symbols, that are accepted and adopted nationally and subsequently internationally; 3) to design materials that are inclusive, by being effective for both sighted and visually impaired people.

Last updated: 06/01/2005