Applying the Design of a Single Mouse with Multiple Cursors to Effectively Integrate Special Students with Comprehensive Learning Environment to Promote Their Curriculum Participation and Happiness
Through adjusting the curriculum, comprehensive learning environment design, and information technology aids to effectively integrate disabled students with learning, in order to assist them to control environment or communicate with people, and to improve their ability of independent living. Orange technology is the current trend to advocate that high-tech should be emphasized on human and social care, and to create happiness technology. However, whether these various assistive devices, and the blueprint of living and teaching can bring the true happiness to disabled students needs to be considered. Therefore, this project proposes a design of single mouse with multiple cursors to assist these disabled students who have poor control of hand movements or poor hand-eye coordination, and who have difficult to move the cursor to click or enter commands and data. This design is able disabled students to shorten the computer operating time through quickly moving the mouse cursor to the position, and the experimental teaching is also carried out. Not only to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed design, but also to realize whether the design is effectively integrated into the comprehensive learning environment of special students under the experimental teaching process, and whether the design is able to improve disabled students’ successful learning experience and to enhance their curriculum participation and happiness. The research program brings forward innovative technology and application with matching experimental teaching design, evaluation and feedback-modified system. The result of the experiment shows that the implement of the method which help to raise interest of learning could been expanded to other type of disabilities. Introduction and Literature Pointing is the most often input function for mouse, lots of tools invented for assisting disabilities to move their mouse’s cursors to position the target rapidly, correctly and easily [1-6]. Park et al. (2006) proposed a project which set an activate area surrounding the target. When we move the mouse into the activate area, the cursor would move to the target automatically, which could move by jumping and gravity two ways [5]. The project indeed could improve the moving efficiency, but when there is more than one target on the screen, the cursor might be disturbed by other targets. Fortunately, Shih et al. (2009) came up with an idea about rewriting the way to drive mouse with software technology to redefine the mouse’s functions and by the collocation of Automatic Pointing Assistive Program, the idea had solved the predication [7] . To some disabilities who couldn’t do computer input with mouse, the switch is also widely been regarded as substitutable device [8]. Equipped the MouseKeys in Microsoft Windows provides disabilities be able to control the cursor moving up, down, left and right with number buttons on the keyboard. What’s more, they can also adjust the cursor’s moving speed with function buttons. However, MouseKeys, which provided by Microsoft, moves progressively. It makes the cursor arrive to the appointed site correctly, but would take lots of time when long-distance movements.