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，我们的目标是开发一种软件，使父母和他们的孩子，谁不共处，收获的好处，学术研究说，从阅读积累在一起，如果他们是坐在一起的家庭沙发上。存在由移动的设备和支持移动的设备的网络的性质引起的将需要解决的无数挑战。 虽然台式机和笔记本电脑上提供了协作功能，但由于这些挑战，移动的设备上不提供。Ruckus提出了“分开时一起阅读”技术（RTWA），该技术应使父母和孩子能够实时地一起阅读同一获奖的Ruckus电子书，使父母和孩子能够一起玩嵌入在电子书中的互动游戏，并通过他们的移动的设备一起说话，即，没有长途电话的麻烦和费用。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力解决了一个关键的21世纪活动：支持个人在使用移动终端时参与协作活动。 有明确的证据表明，个人作为一个团队一起工作可以解决问题，个人单独行动不能。 为了帮助个人使用他们的移动的设备一起工作，每个人都使用他们自己的特定应用程序的副本，Ruckus提出了“一起阅读，同时分开技术”（RTWA），虽然最初针对的是父母和孩子在电子书中阅读/交谈/玩互动游戏，而不是共同定位，但经过一些修改后，可以用于“协作”几乎任何移动的应用程序，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技术作为一个API，一个自包含的软件包，使第三方开发人员可以包括在他们的应用程序，使合作与非共处一地的用户。

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.