Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane
The long cane has been the most widely used mobility aid for the visually impaired people in spite of many other aid systems. The purpose of this study was to investigate canes that are currently being used at the special needs education school for the visually impaired and to produce new long canes...
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The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
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| description | The long cane has been the most widely used mobility aid for the visually impaired people in spite of many other aid systems. The purpose of this study was to investigate canes that are currently being used at the special needs education school for the visually impaired and to produce new long canes experimentally and evaluate it for visually impaired children. An 8-item-questionnaire was developed and distributed to 71 all the Japanese special needs education schools for the visually impaired. 83.1% subjects who received the questionnaire completed it properly. The new types of the long cane were assessed for their ability to transmit the vibration and their sensitivity to tactile information, flexibility, and durability. The materials that are used in new long cane shafts were carbon fiber, aluminum and composite material of carbon fiber and aluminum at three kinds of the most commonly used materials. The tips that are used in new long cane were standard (pencil), marshmallow, and teardrop at the types of three categories. According to questionnaire results, the visually impaired children tend to use a straight cane, and a rubber golf grip standard-type cane tip in the special needs education school for the visually impaired, even though there are many kinds of cane tips. In these experiments of the new long cane, it was found that the lightweight canes, the regulating mechanism of cane's lengths and the combination of tips and grip might be associated with a visually impaired children's performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab21ab223c5c4d51a722332d1500f8562022-12-22T04:16:09ZjpnThe Japan Society of Mechanical EngineersNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu2187-97612016-03-018283615-0041015-0041010.1299/transjsme.15-00410transjsmeDevelopment activities of visually impairment children’s new long caneManabu YOSHIOKA0Junichi SHIMIZU1Hidemi KIZAKI2Hiroki NAKAO3Department of Human and Social Science, Kanazawa UniversityDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Tokyo University of TechnologyKizaki CorporationKizaki CorporationThe long cane has been the most widely used mobility aid for the visually impaired people in spite of many other aid systems. The purpose of this study was to investigate canes that are currently being used at the special needs education school for the visually impaired and to produce new long canes experimentally and evaluate it for visually impaired children. An 8-item-questionnaire was developed and distributed to 71 all the Japanese special needs education schools for the visually impaired. 83.1% subjects who received the questionnaire completed it properly. The new types of the long cane were assessed for their ability to transmit the vibration and their sensitivity to tactile information, flexibility, and durability. The materials that are used in new long cane shafts were carbon fiber, aluminum and composite material of carbon fiber and aluminum at three kinds of the most commonly used materials. The tips that are used in new long cane were standard (pencil), marshmallow, and teardrop at the types of three categories. According to questionnaire results, the visually impaired children tend to use a straight cane, and a rubber golf grip standard-type cane tip in the special needs education school for the visually impaired, even though there are many kinds of cane tips. In these experiments of the new long cane, it was found that the lightweight canes, the regulating mechanism of cane's lengths and the combination of tips and grip might be associated with a visually impaired children's performance.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transjsme/82/836/82_15-00410/_pdf/-char/enlong canetipshaftgripvisually impaired children |
| spellingShingle | Manabu YOSHIOKA Junichi SHIMIZU Hidemi KIZAKI Hiroki NAKAO Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu long cane tip shaft grip visually impaired children |
| title | Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane |
| title_full | Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane |
| title_fullStr | Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane |
| title_short | Development activities of visually impairment children’s new long cane |
| title_sort | development activities of visually impairment children s new long cane |
| topic | long cane tip shaft grip visually impaired children |
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