| Abstract: | 色彩在日常生活中扮演重要角色，更是構成環境訊息的重要元素。視障者生活在一個到處充滿色彩的世界中，雖然失去視覺感官感受色彩的能力，但他們仍時常在日常生活中接觸到色彩的訊息與詞彙。實驗對象為臺中惠明盲校的六位視障兒童。實驗分成二階段進行。第一階段「視障色彩的描述」：利用多重感官(觸覺、嗅覺、聽覺)，針對相關的色彩道具(如水果、自然物)，誘發視障者口述對九種色彩(紅、橙、黃、綠、藍、紫、白、灰、黑)的經驗，獲得其相關的具體形體、事物，及形容詞等。按照這些線索整理與分析，建立常用的色彩形容詞庫。接著，觸摸基本形狀，嘗試講述其適合的色彩。第二階段「視障色彩形容詞的認可性」，針對第一階段結果詢問十五位視障者，找出足以代表色彩的形容詞。結果發現，視障色彩形容詞可區分成五種，包括：情感類(正向和負向)、味道類、外觀類、時間類，以及抽象類之形容詞，表示多重感官可以誘發更多的色彩形容詞。這些研究結果，可提供視障者廣泛通用於日常生活中、家具、書籍、美術用品等與色彩相關的商品之中。
Colors play an important role in everyday life and are essential elements in conveying environmental information. Visually impaired individuals live in a world filled with colors, and although they have lost the ability to perceive colors through visual senses, they still frequently encounter color information and vocabulary in their daily lives. The study was conducted with six visually impaired children from Huei-Ming School for Blind in Taichung. The experiment was divided into two stages. In the first stage, "Description of Colors for the Visually Impaired," multiple senses (touch, smell, and hearing) are used to elicit the experiences of visually impaired individuals in describing nine colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, gray, black) using relevant color props such as fruits and natural objects. This process aims to obtain specific forms, objects, and descriptive adjectives associated with these colors. Based on these clues, a database of commonly used color adjectives is established. Then, basic shapes are touched, and attempts are made to describe their suitable colors. In the second stage, "Acceptability of Visually Impaired Color Adjectives", we asked fifteen visually impaired people based on the results of the first stage to find out adjectives that can represent colors. The results reveal that visually impaired color adjectives can be categorized into five types: emotional (positive and negative), taste-related, appearance-related, time-related, and abstract adjectives, indicating that multiple senses can elicit a broader range of color adjectives. These research findings can provide visually impaired individuals with a wide range of color-related products for everyday life, furniture, books, art supplies, and more. |
