ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING AND DATA-PROCESSING

摘要

Educational devices and educational methods to prepare children and teenagers for keyboarding. The devices include sets of gloves having indicia applied to the fingers of the gloves to provide pictorial and alphanumeric representations of a computer keyboard. Visual and tactile memorization of the glove images are complemented by auditory and associative memorization provided by a story-telling educational method which trains children to develop and practice both lateral and vertical thinking skills in order to prepare them for coping creatively with the inherent hardware/software limitations of computers. The memorization of the alphanumeric representation of the 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.