Planning and Designing of the Software to Promote Waste Battery Recycling

• Main Authors: Siao-Fan Tang, 湯曉帆
• Other Authors: Lee, Shuh-Hwa
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30171814783198166666

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 防災與環境工程研究所 === 99 === Advances in the fields of communication and information technology have led to a significant increase in the use of 3C products, and hence, a corresponding increase in the use of batteries. This increased use of batteries has in turn resulted in a considerably big problem of toxic waste. If the disposal of batteries having any of the three toxic heavy metals (mercury, cadmium, and lead) is not handled appropriately, these toxic materials can infiltrate into the groundwater and contaminate the soil and groundwater resources. The human body would then absorb these toxic materials through the food chain, and human health would be endangered. Although the appropriate disposal of waste batteries is an issue that requires immediate attention with respect to environmental protection, as yet, the concept of recycling waste batteries is not well established and widely publicized. In this study, we collected literature related to the recycling of waste batteries, using Borland Delphi 7.0 e-data, and then designed an instructional system on this topic. While designing this system, we asked various experts on battery recycling and multimedia design to evaluate the advice and guidance imparted by the system for the purpose of creating a user satisfaction and research questionnaire to verify the effectiveness of this system. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s battery recycling policy will be promoted by this system as a school-based program. However, in order to ensure that this information reaches the general public as well, we created two versions of the system: one is the ‘teaching version’, and the other is for ‘public use’. Further, the interface of the proposed system is divided into eight sections including an “overview of the battery” that is designed to provide the users with a better understanding of battery design; “battery tips” to provide multi-way advocacy through text, video, and product images; “recovery advocacy” to instruct the user on the ways to recycle used batteries easily; and “recovery notes” to convey information using a multimedia approach in order to enhance the user’s visual perception of the content. Finally, a user satisfaction survey was carried out for research purposes in order to verify the proposed system’s reliability and validity and examine the proposed system meets the ultimate goal of this study. Built by the institute, the abovementioned system contains informative notes on the recycling of waste batteries. We hope to increase the awareness on this topic in schools and the city and county environmental protection bureaus through this system, and thus promote the recycling of used batteries.