The Purpose of this reasearch is to find out that how many graaphics have been converted into tactile ones in braille textbooks and how much the errors in tactile graphics have been happended. The results can be summarized as following :
1. 80%(134 g...
The Purpose of this reasearch is to find out that how many graaphics have been converted into tactile ones in braille textbooks and how much the errors in tactile graphics have been happended. The results can be summarized as following :
1. 80%(134 graphics) of the graphics in arithmatic and 20%(24 graphics) in nature have been transcribed into tactile ones. In addition, it has been found that 36%(12 graphics) in arithmatics and 22%(22 graphics) in nature could be converted into tactile ones by givign some adaptation.
2. A number of tactile graphics visually different from original ones have been found, such as notch marks on watches, fractional divisions, lengths of squares, and so on.
3. Some graphics, though visually well-converted, are difficult to understand through finger-reading. The graphics with problems are knotty graphics, grapics of which visual information were damaged, and graphics in which show very small difference of dimension, size, angle.
Accordingly, this research shows that tactile graphics should be developed in consideration of the psychological property of finger-reading, that not only braille transcribers but also teachers, subject-specialists and tactile-psychologists should take part in the process of transcribing for the better ones.