RoboBraille in Bulgaria 3 rd Partner Meeting, June 2013 Ruse, Sofia, Plodiv Lars Ballieu Christensen Tanja Stevns.

RoboBraille in Bulgaria3rd Partner Meeting, June 2013Ruse, Sofia, Plodiv

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Tanja Stevns

Agenda

• RoboBraille Project – Status

• Pilot testing

• Mp3 player trial

• Bulgarian Digital Library/Libraries

• Dissemination plan

• Things to come

• RoboBraille workshops

• Next meeting – date, time location?

Status• TTS

– Mp3– Daisy

• Braille• OCR• Ebook• RoboBraille User Interface

– Web form (www.robobraille.org/web3/bg/) – Email accounts

• www.robobraille.org/web3/bg/

Status• Information material

– Leaflet– Post card– Other versions (Braille, Large print)?– Where to print? Who to organise? Volumes?– End-user support?

• RoboBraille web site– Due in next few weeks– Be prepared to translate and localise (contact info)

Pilot testing

When all services are ready:

•Formal testing with feedback of all functions amongst end-user community

•By means of electronic questionnaire

•Preferably responses from 100-200 representative users

•Time frame and email addresses?

Mp3 player trial• Objectives

1. Test RoboBraille as a learning technology

2. Test amongst different disability groups and age groups

3. Test long-term usage of audio books

• Participating partners– Development of test design– Recruit users and conduct tests– Report results

• Quantities?

Bulgarian Digital Library/Libraries

Suggestions

•Shared library amongst special schools?

•Extension to existing library? Status?

•Other ideas?

Dissemination

• Dissemination of information in networks, to professionals, teachers, parents, end users

• Conferences, newsletters, events, workshops, press-releases

• Participating partners– Develop and execute nation-wide dissemination

plan

Things to comeLLL Leonardo da Vinci projects:

•RoboBraille in Education – Catalogue of good practices

•Likely RoboBraille SMART – material production with RoboBraille

– Training course

RoboBraille technology

•New languages (e.g., Russian, Icelandic)

•New formats (e.g., epub3, Braille math)

•Improved quality (OCR)

RoboBraille at Conferences

RoboBraille workshops - Suggestion

• Planning Train-the-Trainer workshops when all services are ready (September/October)

• One day theoretical and practical workshop

• Participating partners:– When is convenient?– Who should participate?– How can it be replicated?

Next meeting

• At RoboBraille workshops …

Questions; comments

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Communication

• www.robobraille.org/bulgaria

• Email list bulgarianpartners@robobraille.org

• Dropbox folder

• Facebook group: RoboBraille Bulgaria

• You can always call/mail us

• tanja@robobraille.org +45 2324 0672

lars@robobraille.org +45 4032 6823