Share Paper: School Activities for Disabled Students Using Self-Made Contents With Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes

  1. Shigeru Ikuta, Otsuma Women's University, Japan
  2. Chiho Urushihata, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  3. Noriko Saotome, Special Support School, Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University, Japan
  4. Shinya Abe, Gridmark Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract: School activities for students with disabilities are presented with self-made original content created with newly-developed software—GM Authoring Tool, Sound Linker, File Linker, and Gridmark Content Viewer—that can handle multimedia-enabled dot codes, originally developed by Gridmark, Inc. Each dot code can link up to ten multimedia mediums—such as a movie—in addition to up to ten voices/sounds. Touching dot codes with a speaking-pen enables audio files to be replayed, and touching dot codes with a dot-code reader enables multimedia to be replayed on iOS and Windows OS devices. Software and Post-it®-like sticker overlaid with dot codes, and a speaking-pen and dot-code reader ...