Emerging Technology Enabling Dyslexia Users To Read and Perceive Written Text Correctly

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Authors

PAŘILOVÁ Tereza MRVÁŇ Filip MIŽÍK Bruno HLADKÁ Eva

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Research in Computer Science
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

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Field Informatics
Keywords assistive technology; dyslexia; text processing
Description Dyslexia is treated by many specialists as a cognitive impairment involving visual attention deficit. It may cause an image of letter rotation or overlapping. Both children and adults suffer from this disease, differing in individual needs and seriousness. With a growing amount of information being distributed digitally, there is a need to accommodate online text to dyslexic users. However, with different types of operating systems, web browsers and substantial dyslexia individualism, it is not easy to fully automatize such needs. We are developing an extension for Chrome browser which is based on our previous cognitive research and empirical data. Such an extension will allow users with dyslexia to accommodate web content with special fragmentation sign which demonstrably suppresses reading problems caused (not only) by dyslexia.
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