Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia

Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they...

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Main Author: Yeoh, Pui Yeng
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling my-ums-ep.177482017-12-08T06:21:44Z Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia 2016 Yeoh, Pui Yeng TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they have normal intelligence and were exposed to sufficient education and training. This research aims to find out whether sonification concept can be used in the design of assistive tools for dyslexic students. Before any sonification based assistive tools can be designed, it is important to understand the fundamental issues, which are the listening performances of dyslexic peoples. Based on the tasks used in measuring usability properties of sonification applications, a listening test experimental design was developed and the performance results were analyzed. The overall results show that people who have dyslexia can be concluded as equivalent to normal people in performing general tasks in sonification concepts. However, there are some interesting results that might need to be taken into consideration for future research enhancements. 2016 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17748/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17748/1/Performance%20evaluation.pdf text en public masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah Faculty of Computing and Informatics
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Yeoh, Pui Yeng
Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
description Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they have normal intelligence and were exposed to sufficient education and training. This research aims to find out whether sonification concept can be used in the design of assistive tools for dyslexic students. Before any sonification based assistive tools can be designed, it is important to understand the fundamental issues, which are the listening performances of dyslexic peoples. Based on the tasks used in measuring usability properties of sonification applications, a listening test experimental design was developed and the performance results were analyzed. The overall results show that people who have dyslexia can be concluded as equivalent to normal people in performing general tasks in sonification concepts. However, there are some interesting results that might need to be taken into consideration for future research enhancements.
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author Yeoh, Pui Yeng
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title Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_short Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_full Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_fullStr Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_full_unstemmed Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_sort performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
granting_institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
granting_department Faculty of Computing and Informatics
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/17748/1/Performance%20evaluation.pdf
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