How was school today...? - Supporting narrative for non-speaking children, a feasibility study.

我们的目标是开发一种计算机工具，帮助不会说话的孩子们讲述他们在学校的一天。讲故事是社会互动的一个重要方面，讲故事的技能是通过实践来发展的。对于不会说话的孩子来说，这样的练习是很困难的，我们的工具会帮助他们。更具体地说，我们想用各种传感器来获取孩子去了哪里，做了什么，和谁互动的信息；编写一个计算机程序，根据这些数据自动创建一个故事草稿；创建一个故事编辑和叙述界面，让孩子们编辑故事草稿，然后在他们满意的时候讲出来。可能的传感器包括用于跟踪儿童去向的GPS，用于跟踪儿童与什么物体互动以及他们的活动的RFID标签；还有条形码扫描仪，用来记录孩子们与谁互动。故事生成软件将基于在其他epsrc资助的项目（如SumTime、RoadSafe和BabyTalk）中开发的数据英文摘要生成技术。故事编辑界面可能会基于一个可视化的时间轴隐喻。我们的工作将由几个用户群体提供信息和指导，包括儿童、家长和教师。我们将始终采用以用户为中心的设计理念。我们将在项目结束时建立一个简单的原型系统，并与两个孩子一起做一个小规模的评估。如果可行性研究成功，我们将寻求资助机会，进一步发展这一概念。

Our goal is to develop a computer tool which helps children who cannot speak create a story about their day at school. Story telling is an essential aspect of social interaction, and story-telling skills are developed through practice. It is difficult for non-speaking children to get such practice, our tool will help them.More specifically, we want to use various kinds of sensors to acquire information about where the child went, what she did, and who she interacted with; write a computer program which automatically creates a draft story based on this data; and create a story editing and narration interface which lets children edit the draft story and then tell it when they are happy with it. Possible sensors include GPS for tracking where children go, RFID tags for tracking what objects children interact with and hence their activities; and barcode scanners for recording who children interact with. The story-generation software will be based on technology for generating English summaries of data which has been developed in other EPSRC-funded projects such as SumTime, RoadSafe, and BabyTalk. The story editing interface will probably be based on a visual timeline metaphor.Our work will be informed and guided by several user groups, including children, parents, and teachers. We will use a user-centred design philosophy throughout.We will build a simple prototype system at the end of the project, and do a small-scale evaluation with two children. If the feasibility study is successful, we will explore funding opportunities to further develop this concept.