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Conceptual Design of a Character Education System for Children with Developmental Disability

  • Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems
  • Abbr : JKITS
  • 2016, 11(1), pp.29-37
  • Publisher : Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Published : February 29, 2016

Song-Ee Park 1 Gil-Ho Song 1 Yun Inho 1 Sang-Youn Kim 1

1한국기술교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a new conceptual design of a character education system for children with developmental disability. The designed system represents characters in a form of intaglio so that the children with developmental disability can follow the intaglio printing with their finger pad during character education. To show engrave pattern on a display area of the character education system, we design a hexagon cells array which can be independently actuated along vertical direction. Each cell consists of an actuation part, a contact plate, a locking part, and a housing. Due to the actuation part, each cell can be moved up and down. The locking part is incorporated into the proposed system in order to minimize the power consumption. The contact plate is used for interaction with a human finger pad. In order to investigate the actuation force, we conducted the FEM (Finite Element Method) simulation. The simulation result shows that the actuation force large enough to lift or to fall the corresponding cell. The interference between an actuator and its neighbor is also simulated, and the result shows that interference is small enough to be ignored. If the character education system based on the proposed conceptual design is commercialized, it will be useful to children with developmental disability.

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