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 [email protected]
• Dropbox folder
• Facebook group: RoboBraille Bulgaria
• You can always call/mail us
• [email protected] +45 2324 0672
[email protected] +45 4032 6823
