TY - GEN
T1 - Mobile application to support dyslexia diagnostic and reading practice
AU - Martins, Valeria Farinazzo
AU - Lima, Thiago
AU - Sampaio, Paulo N.M.
AU - De Paiva, Marcelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/7/2
Y1 - 2016/7/2
N2 - The treatment of the Dyslexia Disorder requires patients to be disciplined and have a lot of reading practice so that they can reach a level of fluency and accuracy similar to people not diagnosed with this disorder. Due to cost or availability of health professionals, patients are not able, in general, to follow the treatment accordingly keeping a constant attendance. Besides, nowadays there are not many available tools to support health professionals towards dyslexia diagnosis. This paper presents an application developed for mobile devices, through which dyslexic users can practice their reading skills, turning the treatment accessible as well as helping health professionals as an auxiliary tool to diagnose their patients. This tool can be applied to support dyslexia diagnosis and to help people already diagnosed with this disorder training reading. To validate the use of this tool, the application was tested with some students of a private school in the city of São Paulo (Brazil). The results regarding usability aspects and the tool accuracy are also discussed.
AB - The treatment of the Dyslexia Disorder requires patients to be disciplined and have a lot of reading practice so that they can reach a level of fluency and accuracy similar to people not diagnosed with this disorder. Due to cost or availability of health professionals, patients are not able, in general, to follow the treatment accordingly keeping a constant attendance. Besides, nowadays there are not many available tools to support health professionals towards dyslexia diagnosis. This paper presents an application developed for mobile devices, through which dyslexic users can practice their reading skills, turning the treatment accessible as well as helping health professionals as an auxiliary tool to diagnose their patients. This tool can be applied to support dyslexia diagnosis and to help people already diagnosed with this disorder training reading. To validate the use of this tool, the application was tested with some students of a private school in the city of São Paulo (Brazil). The results regarding usability aspects and the tool accuracy are also discussed.
KW - Diagnostics
KW - Dyslexia
KW - Mobile device
KW - Reading
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85021949283
U2 - 10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945710
DO - 10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945710
M3 - Articulo (Contribución a conferencia)
AN - SCOPUS:85021949283
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA
BT - 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2016 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 13th IEEE/ACS International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2016
Y2 - 29 November 2016 through 2 December 2016
ER -