3D printing assisted in art education: Study on the effectiveness of visually impaired students in space learning

For visually impaired people, to appreciate an art work is very difficult because it can't be seen or even touched. For the art educators of visually impaired students, whether the color, composition or the theme of an art work is more meaningful to them is often a major challenge. Due to the technological development, the 3D printing art works can be drawn from the plane into emboss, Semi-panting, two and a half-dimensional paintings which allow the visually impaired to appreciate art work through their fingertips. However, this method is limited onto provided the ability of recognition of artworks. According to this, this study has two purposes: first, to explore the possibility of 3D printing on assisting art education. Since the visually impaired learning objects by the sense of touch, this study reproduces the work of art in both of 3D and emboss. They can recognize the objects in the painting in 3D form, and understand how the objects transform onto two and a half dimension object and their composition in the painting. Secondly, based on the ARCS learning motivation module, this paper introduces the concept of space-learning by using 3D printing as teaching material. Through the process of interview, experimental teaching, observation and evaluation, students will learn the concept of space in painting and know how to create an art work which has the close, middle and long scene.