Title
An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users.
Abstract
It is often uncomfortable for disabled individuals, especially those with vision impairment, to conduct educational activities in collaboration with people that have perfect vision. This can be because of the former's lack of confidence, vision capability, and acceptance. Information and communications technology (ICT) has played a vital role in giving support to people with visual impairments so that they can overcome their issues. This study proposes innovative solutions that address the challenges faced by partially or completely visually impaired people. It provides an interactive and intelligent interface, which they may use to perform educational activities, such as editing, writing, or reviewing documents, in collaboration with people without visual impairments. The system provides high-quality awareness features by sending them instant voice notifications about the actions and events occurring in the shared environment. A speech-recognition engine has been integrated into the system to allow users to interact with the application through voice commands. The system is evaluated through experiments, where people with visual impairment and people without visual impairment were engaged in collaborative writing. The obtained results are encouraging. The users showed curiosity in the system and were able to focus on the productive task instead of their disability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/sym11020238
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
Field
DocType
collaborative environment,human-computer interaction,speech-based application,educational technology,coauthoring for blinds
Educational technology,Visual impairment,Combinatorics,Shared environment,Curiosity,Intelligent interface,Human–computer interaction,Information and Communications Technology,Collaborative writing,Mathematics,Voice command device
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
mirza muhammad waqar132.13
Muhammad Aslam2283.10
Muhammad Farhan341.42