| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 94 === The present research investigates the current situation about the resources of pictorial information and the utilization by blind students in Taiwan. Due to the rapid technology development of modern society, people derive information from multiple channels. The information includes not only large quantity of words, but also pictures and images. However, most of the pictorial information for blind people was transformed into vocal message or Braille, that excluded lots of information provided by pictures only. The deficiency could limit the possibility of the blind people’s learning. The present research mainly interviewed 43 subjects, aging 10 to 22 years old, in Taipei area, including 5 teachers of blind students, 6 assistant agencies for the blind, 10 parents of blind children, and 22 blind students (from a visual impaired school, 2 ordinary junior high schools, and an university). The results indicate current ways of pictorial transformation for blind people include multi-material picture, three-dimensional model, hot-print picture, rubbing picture, and 3D Windows Embosser. The results suggest the haptic pictorial information can enrich blind students’ experience and promote their achievement in school. However, current difficulties to extend utilization of pictorial information and to transform visual pictorial information into haptic information include: 1. The visual pictorial information did not transformed through a systematic way that could be easily understood by the blind. 2. The school did not provide students enough systematic curriculums about concepts of picture and to learn how to decode hapitc pictures that makes the blind students had low confidence and motivation to read pictorial information. 3. The quantity of transformed picture information decreased with age. 4. Tight budget of government could not offer enough support to produce enough pictorial resource. 5. The interchanging of knowledge and experience about teaching and producing haptic picture was not enough, and research in this field was not enough, either. The above 5 points conclude main hurdles that slowed down the progress of the blinds’ reading pictorial information in Taiwan. The research finally suggests that the school education should enable blind student’s picture reading ability through: finding out systematic way of picture transformation from the blind’s viewpoint, intensive and systematic teaching about concepts and skills of reading picture information. Additionally, the field of haptic pictorial information should obtain more attention from the researcher, professional agencies of hapitc picture producing, educators, and government.
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