Usability in designing assistive technology for children with learning disabilities

  • Authors:
  • Onintra Poobrasert;Alongkorn Wongteeratana

  • Affiliations:
  • National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Pathumthani, Thailand;National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Pathumthani, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • i-CREATe '11 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The number of children with learning disabilities is increasing whereas the use of assistive technology is limit. Assistive technology will help increasing ability or adjusting proficiency of children with learning disabilities to learn effectively. Children with learning difficulties gain benefit and comprehend the material better from viewing the text and hearing it read aloud. Hence, it is very important for the researcher to have better understanding of this disability issues. Consequently, this paper obviously is considered on a study to integrate usability testing into the design and development of Thai Word Search program. Thai Word Search program assists children with learning disabilities to write any vocabulary that he/she cannot spell it correctly. Children with learning disabilities will just type part of word according to pronunciation or as guessed, the program will display the word approximation or the words for selection that most likely matches the one desired by the children including their pronunciation. Furthermore, the result shows that the program works well on the operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 7. At present the system evaluation shows the correction's scores of 85% for word approximation search.