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，帮助那些不能说话的孩子创造一个关于他们在学校一天的故事。讲故事是社会交往的一个重要方面，讲故事的技巧是通过实践发展起来的。不会说话的孩子很难得到这样的练习，我们的工具将帮助他们。更具体地说，我们想使用各种传感器来获取孩子去了哪里，她做了什么，她与谁互动的信息;编写一个计算机程序，根据这些数据自动创建一个草稿故事;并创建一个故事编辑和叙述界面，让孩子们编辑草稿故事，然后在他们满意的时候讲出来。可能的传感器包括GPS，用于跟踪孩子们去了哪里，RFID标签用于跟踪儿童与什么物体互动，从而跟踪他们的活动;条形码扫描仪用于记录儿童与谁互动。故事生成软件将基于生成英文数据摘要的技术，该技术已在其他EPSRC资助的项目中开发，如SumTime，RoadSafe和BabyTalk。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组提供信息和指导，包括儿童，家长和老师。我们将始终采用以用户为中心的设计理念，在项目结束时，我们将建立一个简单的原型系统，并对两个孩子进行小规模的评估。如果可行性研究成功，我们将寻求融资机会，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.