Watanabe Tetsuya, Yamaguchi Toshimitsu
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Japan.
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Japan.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;242:687-694.
To disseminate the use of tactile maps, a tactile map creation service has been offered according to the demands of blind people and their helpers. From June 2010 to December 2016, 151 tactile maps were created. Three quarters of them were maps of outdoor areas and one fifth were floor plans of a building or property. Half of the outdoor area maps were mobility maps and the other half were city maps. The service users' comments confirmed the usefulness of tactile maps as route maps and as providing information on a city. However, it was revealed that these tactile maps are too complicated for late blind people.
为了推广触觉地图的使用，已根据盲人及其助手的需求提供了触觉地图制作服务。2010年6月至2016年12月期间，共制作了151幅触觉地图。其中四分之三是户外区域地图，五分之一是建筑物或房产的平面图。户外区域地图中有一半是出行地图，另一半是城市地图。服务用户的评论证实了触觉地图作为路线图以及提供城市信息的有用性。然而，调查发现这些触觉地图对于晚期盲人来说过于复杂。
