An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users
An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users
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DOI：
10.3390/sym11020238
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发表时间：
2019-02-01
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2.7
通讯作者：
Farhan, Muhammad
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作者：
Wagar, Mirza Muhammad;Aslam, Muhammad;Farhan, Muhammad
对于残疾人来说，尤其是那些有视力障碍的人，与视力正常的人合作开展教育活动往往会感到不舒服。这可能是因为前者缺乏信心，视觉能力和接受能力。信息和通信技术（ICT）在为视力障碍者提供支持方面发挥了至关重要的作用，使他们能够克服自己的问题。这项研究提出了创新的解决方案，以解决部分或完全视障人士所面临的挑战。它提供了一个互动和智能的界面，他们可以使用它来执行教育活动，如编辑，写作，或审查文件，与没有视觉障碍的人合作。该系统通过向他们发送有关共享环境中发生的动作和事件的即时语音通知来提供高质量的感知功能。语音识别引擎已集成到系统中，允许用户通过语音命令与应用程序进行交互。该系统通过实验进行评估，其中有视力障碍的人和没有视力障碍的人从事协作写作。所取得的成果令人鼓舞。用户在系统中表现出好奇心，能够专注于生产任务，而不是他们的残疾。
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.