An Attempt to Process Video Images for Providing Information on the Instructional Situation to Parents

Abstract

In this research, an attempt was made to process video images for communicating information on the instructional situation to parents in an easy-to-understand, efficient manner. More specifically, target scenes were extracted -- as a series of still images -- from video images of a scene of small-group instruction, and presentation materials were created by adding to the pictures text explaining the child's feelings and situation. The responses of guardians were studied from records in the daily instruction log, and as a result it was found that: (1) Parents can be made to recognize the changes in behavior of their child which the instructor is trying to communicate, (2) Parents can spontaneously apprehend the feelings of their child, and verbalize them. Due to these results, it is thought that the information which the instructor wishes to communicate can be clearly communicated by extracting video images as still images which are records of "single moments (1 cut)", presenting these moments in sequence, and adding instruction to them.