Back to results
US 5,507,649 AGranted
Adaptive system based on indicia applied to the fingers for touch-typing/training
OwnerFarideh Troudetinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
OwnerFarideh Troudetinventor
Estimating the term…
Educational devices using process-oriented educational methods are disclosed to prepare pre-school children, school children, and teenagers for keyboarding. The devices include sets of gloves and indicia applied to the fingers of the gloves to provide pictorial and alphanumeric representations of the computer keyboard. The visual and tactile memorization of the glove images are complemented by auditory and associative memorization provided by a story-telling educational method. Synergistic use of the gloves in the context of supervised story-telling also trains the pre-school children to develop and practise both lateral and vertical thinking skills, thus preparing them for coping creatively with the inherent hardware/software limitations of computers. The memorization of the alphanumeric representation of the computer keyboard is reinforced through synergistic use of the gloves in a variety of activities including learning the alphabet, learning word-spelling, and learning languages. To best fit the psychology of teenagers, sets of picture-rings and medallion-rings are disclosed to specifically prepare that age-group for keyboarding.
An educational device for learning a keyboard comprising a first set of four rings and a second set of four rings, said first set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the left-hand of a visually-impaired learner, said second set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the right-hand of the visually-impaired learner, said first set of rings having a first set of indicia mounted thereon, said second set of rings having a second set of indicia mounted thereon, said first set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said left hand having first shapes, said first shapes comprising raised surfaces indicating the precise Braille representation of keys of the keyboard to be struck by said fingers of said left hand of the visually-impaired learner, said second set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said right hand having second shapes, said second shapes comprising raised surfaces indicating the precise Braille representation of the keys of the keyboard to be struck by said fingers of said right hand of the visually-impaired learner.
An educational device for learning a keyboard comprising a first set of four rings and a second set of four rings, said first set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the left-hand of a hearing-impaired learner, said second set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the right-hand of the hearing-impaired learner, said first set of rings having a first set of indicia mounted thereon, said second set of rings having a second set of indicia mounted thereon, said first set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said left hand having first shapes, said first shapes comprising sign-language representations of keys of the keyboard to be struck by said fingers of said left hand of the hearing-impaired learner, said second set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said right hand having second shapes, said second shapes comprising sign-language representations of the keys of the keyboard to be struck by said fingers of said right hand of the hearing-impaired learner.
An educational device for learning a keyboard of arbitrary format and content, comprising a first set of four rings and a second set of four rings, said first set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the left-hand of a learner, said second set of four rings are adapted to fit the four fingers of the right-hand of the learner, said first set of rings having a first set of indicia mounted thereon as mnemonic means, said second set of rings having a second set of indicia mounted thereon as mnemonic means, said first set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said left hand having first shapes defining objects which object names begin with a letter corresponding to a key of the keyboard to be struck by said finger of said left hand, said second set of indicia on said rings of said fingers of said right hand having second shapes defining objects which object names begin with a letter corresponding to a key of the keyboard to be struck by said finger of said right hand, and said shapes of said indicia comprise three-dimensional structures that are attached onto said rings of said fingers of said hands as mnemonic means.
An educational device for assisting in the learning of a keyboard of arbitrary format and content, comprising:
An educational device for simultaneously assisting in the learning of a keyboard and learning of writing, spelling, and language vocabulary, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.