Authors:
Raul Benites Paradeda
1
;
Ailton Francisco de Luna e Silva
1
;
Jones Granatyr
2
and
Alberto Signoretti
1
Affiliations:
1
University of State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
;
2
University of Contestado, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Braille System, Accessibility, Android Platform, Educational Application.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility to Disabled Users
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Mobile Information Systems
;
Mobile Learning
;
Ubiquitous Learning
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Aiming to facilitate the learning process of the Braille System, we developed an educational application to
assist people for learning this system. We developed the application initially in Portuguese, it was named as
BrailleApp, and it was designed for mobile devices, which uses the Android Platform. All accessibility
standards were implemented to make it as accessible as possible to all people, helping visually impaired
people and not visually impaired in the learning process of this language. In this first version, the help to
learning Braille is specifically to not blind people, although, with some difficulties, it is possible a blind person
use the application. In future versions we hope to improve and facilitate the use of this application by blind
people too. It is important to emphasize we do not intend to replace the conventional methods which assist in
this task, but to be an application to complement the already existing techniques. In an empirical analysis, the
results sh
ow that the application was positive in the sense of system requirements, functionalities, and
accessibility. We expect BrailleApp will be another option to assist users in the teaching-learning process and
contribute to the social integration of visually impaired with technologies.
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