Interactive Serious Gaming for Children with Auditory Processing Difficulties in the Arabic Language
Al-Wabil, Areej . 2013
The sense of hearing is of paramount importance as it is the first tie to the world around us and our first method of acquiring the skills to pronounce words. Accordingly, hearing loss deprives us from this experience and integration into our society. Based on that, this project involves developing an assistive technology for people with special needs to help improve auditory skills of children with auditory-related problems and learning difficulties, and assist them in effective communication by providing training techniques in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and two local dialects. In this paper, we describe the background, motivation, and nature of the problem that this assistive technology, called Sada ‘صدى’, addresses. The novelty of this system is the contribution towards Arabized technology for our local context as well as the approach adopted in the design cycle. In this project, we rigorously followed the User Centered Design ISO 13407 [1] standard in the analysis and design of the system. Furthermore, we describe the analysis, design and implementation phases conducted in this project, as well as local and global impact of our system.
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method of acquiring the skills to pronounce words. Accordingly, hearing loss…