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Designing and assessing an intelligent e-tool for deaf children

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Rosella Gennari,

Ornella MichAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 325 - 328

https://doi.org/10.1145/1378773.1378821

Published: 13 January 2008 Publication History

Abstract

LODE is a logic-based web tool for Italian deaf children who have problems in the comprehension of narratives in a verbal language; namely, it aims at stimulating global reasoning on written e-stories. Presently, LODE deals with global temporal reasoning; temporal reasoning problems are encoded as constraint satisfaction problems that can be solved by a constraint reasoner. The focus of this paper is the intelligent user interface of LODE; after characterizing the intended end users of LODE, this paper focuses on critical issues faced in the design and assessment of the interface of our e-tool. A preliminary assessment and an evaluation plan of LODE conclude our paper.

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DOI:10.1145/1378773

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