A prototype application for helping to teach how to read numbers

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2003

Authors

Vítor Manuel Ferreira Alves Carvalho (Author) FEUP; Diamantino Rui da Silva Freitas (Author) FEUP; Helder Filipe Patrício Cabral Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Dárida Fernandes (Author) Other; Fernando Pedrosa (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Volume I of the Proceedings of HCI International 2003 - 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction 5th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction

Pages: 941-945

Crete, Greece, 22 - 27 June 2003

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Mathematics > Computational mathematics ; Physical sciences > Computer science > Computer systems > Human computer interaction

Other information

Abstract (EN): Nowadays we see several multimedia math applications in support of teaching the basic operations, geometric analysis, algebra and other complex operations; however there's no math application for the children at starting school age that helps to teach how to read a number in Portuguese. The <i>Laboratory for Speech Processing, Electro Acoustics, Signals and Instrumentation</i> (LPF-ESI) at the <i>Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto</i> (FEUP), started a project using a text-to-speech (TTS) engine and a Visual Basic multimedia application in order to fulfil that gap.<br>A prototype has been produced, called "<i>A Quinta dos Números</i>" (AQN) (<i>The Farm of Numbers</i>), that intends to create a bridge between engineering, computer science and pedagogy, using psycho-pedagogic concepts inherent to the teaching of maths, artificial intelligence, speech/text processing and multimedia systems, as scientific basis. Develop to help the teacher to consolidate the student's knowledge and to support a progressive evaluation of her/his performance, AQN offers a multimedia interaction with speech synthesis and text boxes. It allows a greater accessibility at the same time it will offer a wide choice of didactic games, with learning and evaluation aims.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5