INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Sponsored by: The Danish Lottery Ministry of IT and Science EU’s Social Foundation Danida MELFO Mobil E-Læring For Ordblinde (Mobile E-learning for dyslectics) Research and development cooperative project 2006-7
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Sponsored by:The Danish LotteryMinistry of IT and ScienceEU’s Social FoundationDanida
MELFOMobil E-Læring For Ordblinde
(Mobile E-learning for dyslectics)
Research and development cooperative project 2006-7
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Who Participated
• Copenhagen University – Humanistics: Film and Media, Centre for Language Technology, Centre for Reading Research
• Danish Building Institute – Aalborg University
• HP• Sensus• Motto
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Solution
PDA with windows mobile for reading help and reading training:
• Camera – photos of all kinds of texts →• Synthetic speak – translating text• Dictionary – general and trade specific• Reading exercises – various• Games as exercises
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Purpose and aims• To empower people with different skills
to read on the move using a mobile device
• To speed up the reading skills enabling new methods using a mobile device
• To minimize the number of tasks for the user to read using a mobile device
• To enable the user to read anything, anywhere, anytime using a mobile device
• To develop a platform/services that may be developed for numerous other groups (globally)
• To benefit from the cooperation between academic research, technological development and business
• To study the consequences of research
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Pilot project
• Focus on construction workers with reading disabilities
• Interviews with 7 workers regarding media use/experience/attitudes and reading/ writing problems plus work-related issues
• Test of pilot• Larger group of test persons from
schools/courses – beta-testing
Purpose: industry: does it work? Does it sell? language scholars: do they read
better? media scholars: more knowledge about meaning of digital media
INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte
Findings
• Users are less afraid of using a mobile device
• Users are learning approximately 2,000 new wordsin 3 month
• Users dare learn new “stuff”• Users are showing improved
confidence• Users with other challenges are
using the solutions