Learning subtraction and addition through digital boards: a Down syndrome case

González, Carina Soledad González; Noda, Aurelia; Bruno, Alicia; Moreno, L.; Muñoz, V.

doi:10.1007/s10209-013-0330-3

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“…e benefits of mobile technology can be found anywhere: communication, education, scientific research, healthcare, and entertainment, to name a few, but despite its multidisciplinary application, mobile technology and all its advantages are far away from being accessible to people with disabilities [1], people with Down syndrome among them [2]. Researchers in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have recognized and analyzed several barriers that people with Down syndrome face when interacting with mobile technology [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Analyzing Typical Mobile Gestures in mHealth Applications for Users with Down Syndrome

Luna-García

Mendoza-González²,

Mendoza-González

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Mobile Information Systems

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Transportation, Health, and Entertainment are just a few areas of mobile technology application. Nevertheless, there are still some people who find difficulties using it. Although there are a lot of applications of mHealth available for almost any kind of mobile device, there is still a lack of understanding and attending users' needs, especially those of users with disabilities. People with Down syndrome have the potential to function as active members of our society, taking care of themselves and their own, having jobs, voting, and so on, but their physical limitations prevent them from handling correctly technological tools that could enhance their performance, including mobile technology. In this paper, we had analyzed how suitable the mHealth applications are for users with Down syndrome. We tested 24 users and analyzed their physical performance in fine-motor movements while developing a set of tasks over a mHealth application. Results showed that the design of a mHealth application for users with Down syndrome must center its interaction with simple gestures as tap and swipe avoiding more complex ones as spread and rotate. is research is a starting point to understand the fundamentals of people with Down syndrome interacting with mobile technology.

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confidence: 99%

Analyzing Typical Mobile Gestures in mHealth Applications for Users with Down Syndrome

Luna-García

Mendoza-González²,

Mendoza-González

et al. 2018

Mobile Information Systems

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“…Previous research by the authors of this paper on students with DS analysed difficulties and mistakes involving addition, subtraction and problem solving (Noda et al, 2011;González et al, 2015). In that research we found that the mistakes made by students with DS when adding and subtracting stemmed from a lack of conceptual understanding.…”

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“…In some works, these approaches were specific to a particular type of DLO, emphasizing the characteristics that the DLO must have [28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. While these works considered formal guidelines of instructional design of DLOs and pedagogical theory, the development process was presented in a general form.…”

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“…However, the model was presented in a general form, and no information about the type of tools to be used at each point of the methodology was presented (i.e., how to identify the appropriate competencies and requisites, evaluation methods, usability metrics). The emotional factor that is important for the integration of new with existing knowledge within the learning process [22] was not considered within the conception of FLOM nor the development approaches presented in [28][29][30][31][32][34][35][36][37][38].…”

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“…2015 [29] Specific development approach and characteristics of an LO: development of a digital whiteboard interface to support Down Syndrome (DS) students in their learning of addition and subtraction algorithms. The following development stages were defined: "pre-test" (selection of cases, requisites, prototyping, usability heuristics), "test" (task execution, observation), "post-test" (educational evaluation, focus group).…”

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MODELI: An Emotion-Based Software Engineering Methodology for the Development of Digital Learning Objects for the Preservation of the Mixtec Language

Allende-Hernández

Caballero‐Morales

2015

Sustainability

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In this paper, a methodology termed MODELI (methodology for the design of educational digital objects for indigenous languages) is presented for the development of digital learning objects (DLOs) for the Mixtec language, which is an indigenous Mexican language. MODELI is based on the spiral model of software development and integrates three important aspects for the analysis and design of DLOs: pedagogical, affective-emotional and technological-functional. The premise of MODELI is that the emotional aspect with the inclusion of cultural factors has an important effect on the learning motivation of indigenous users when interacting with the DLO. Principles of the visual, auditory (or aural), read/write, kinesthetic (VARK) model and Kansei engineering were considered for the inclusion of the pedagogical, emotional and technological-functional aspects within the spiral model for the development of MODELI. The methodology was validated with the development of a DLO for a previously unknown variant of the Mixtec language. Usability tests of the DLO built with MODELI evidenced an improvement on the learning motivation and the value of cultural identity of indigenous children. These results are important for the preservation of indigenous languages in Mexico, because most of them are partially documented, and there is social rejection of indigenous culture caused by discrimination of ethnic communities.

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Learning subtraction and addition through digital boards: a Down syndrome case

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Analyzing Typical Mobile Gestures in mHealth Applications for Users with Down Syndrome

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MODELI: An Emotion-Based Software Engineering Methodology for the Development of Digital Learning Objects for the Preservation of the Mixtec Language

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