SBIR Phase I: Employing the Read Together While Apart Technology to Create Engaging and Educationally Effective Interactive Children's eBooks

小企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目旨在解决一个重要的需求：帮助父母帮助他们的孩子学习阅读。特别是，我们的目标是开发软件，使父母和他们的孩子能够获得学术研究所说的共同阅读所带来的好处，就像他们坐在家里的沙发上一样。移动设备和支持移动设备的网络的性质带来了无数需要解决的挑战。虽然协作功能在台式机和笔记本电脑上可用，但由于这些挑战，它在移动设备上不可用。Ruckus提出了边读边分开技术(RTWA)，使父母和孩子可以一起实时阅读同一本获奖的Ruckus电子书，使父母和孩子能够一起玩嵌入电子书的互动游戏，并通过他们的移动设备一起交谈，即没有长途电话的麻烦和费用。该项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力解决了21世纪的一项关键活动：支持每个人在使用移动设备时参与协作活动。有明确的证据表明，个人作为一个团队一起工作可以解决个人单独行动无法解决的问题。为了帮助个人使用他们的移动设备协同工作，每个人都使用自己的特定应用程序副本，Ruckus提出了同时阅读技术(RTWA)，虽然最初的目标是父母和孩子在电子书中阅读/交谈/玩互动游戏，但不在同一位置，经过一些修改后，可以使用它来“协作”几乎任何移动应用程序，从而使多个并发用户能够创建、编辑、更新等相同的文件。Ruckus将使RTWA技术以API的形式提供，这是一个独立的软件包，这样第三方开发人员就可以将其包括在他们的应用程序中，以实现与不在同一位置的用户的协作。

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to address a significant need: aiding parents as they help their children learn to read. In particular, our goal is to develop software that will enable a parent and their child, who are not co-located, to reap the benefits that academic research say accrue from reading together as if they were sitting together on the family couch. There are a myriad of challenges arising from the nature of mobile devices and networks that support mobile devices that will need to be addressed. While collaborative functionality is available on desktops and laptops, it is not available on mobile devices due to these challenges. Ruckus proposed Read Together While Apart Technology (RTWA) that should enable the parent and child to read the same award winning Ruckus eBook together in real-time, enable the parent and child to play interactive games embedded in the eBook together, and speak together through their mobile devices, i.e., talk without the hassle and expense of a long distance phone call. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project address a key 21st activity: supporting individuals as they engage in collaboration activities while each is using a mobile device. There is clear evidence that individuals working together as a team can solve problems that individuals acting alone cannot. Towards helping individuals use their mobile devices to work together, each using their own copy of a specific app, Ruckus proposed Read Together While Apart Technology (RTWA), while initially targeting a parent and child reading/talking/playing interactive games in an eBook while not co-located, can be used, after some modification, to "collaborify" virtually any mobile app thus enabling multiple concurrent users to create, edit, update, etc. the same file. Ruckus will make the RTWA technology available as an API, a self-contained software package, so that third-party developers can include it in their applications to enable collaboration with non co-located users.