RoboBraille in Romania 3 rd Partner Meeting, June 2013 Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara
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RoboBraille in Romania3rd Partner Meeting, June 2013Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara
Lars Ballieu Christensen
Tanja Stevns
Agenda
• RoboBraille Project – Status
• Pilot testing
• Mp3 player trial
• Romanian Digital Library/Libraries
• Dissemination plan
• Things to come
• RoboBraille workshops
• Next meeting – date, time location?
Status• TTS
– Mp3– Daisy
• Braille• OCR• Ebook• RoboBraille User Interface
– Web form (www.robobraille.org/web3/ro/) – Email accounts
• www.robobraille.org/web3/ro/
Status• Information material
– Leaflet– Post card– Other versions (Braille, Large print)?– Where to print? Who to organise? Volumes?– End-user support?
• RoboBraille web site– Due in next few weeks– Be prepared to translate and localise (contact info)
Pilot testing
When all services are ready:
•Formal testing with feedback of all functions amongst end-user community
•By means of electronic questionnaire
•Preferably responses from 100-200 representative users
•Time frame and email addresses?Romania BB
UniCluj
HS f.t. blind Cluj
Speranta, Timisoara
HS f.t. blind, Timisoara
Uni Timisoara
School f.t. blind, Arad
School f.t. PS, Bucharest
School f.t. blind, Bucharest
Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind
User Pilot X X X X
Mp3 player trial• Objectives
1. Test RoboBraille as a learning technology
2. Test amongst different disability groups and age groups
3. Test long-term usage of audio books
• Participating partners– Development of test design– Recruit users and conduct tests– Report results
• Quantities?
Romanian Digital Library/Libraries
Suggestions
•Shared library amongst special schools?
•Extension to existing library? Status?
•Other ideas?
Dissemination
• Dissemination of information in networks, to professionals, teachers, parents, end users
• Conferences, newsletters, events, workshops, press-releases
• Participating partners– Develop and execute nation-wide dissemination
planRomania BB
UniCluj
HS f.t. blind Cluj
Speranta, Timisoara
HS f.t. blind, Timisoara
Uni Timisoara
School f.t. blind, Arad
School f.t. PS, Bucharest
School f.t. blind, Bucharest
Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind
Dissemination, outreach
X X X X X
Things to comeLLL Leonardo da Vinci projects:
•RoboBraille in Education – Catalogue of good practices
•Likely RoboBraille SMART – material production with RoboBraille
– Training course
RoboBraille technology
•New languages (e.g., Russian, Icelandic)
•New formats (e.g., epub3, Braille math)
•Improved quality (OCR)
RoboBraille at Conferences• AHEAD (USA) June• ICEVI (Turkey) July• SPACE-X/Seduce (Austria) September• ICT Conference (Denmark) September• International Dyslexia (Bulgaria) October• Accessing Higher Grounds (USA) November
• Co-author papers?
RoboBraille workshops - Suggestion
• Planning Train-the-Trainer workshops when all services are ready (September/October)
• One day theoretical and practical workshop
• Participating partners:– When is convenient?– Who should participate?– How can it be replicated?
Romania BB UniCluj
HS f.t. blind Cluj
Speranta, Timisoara
HS f.t. blind, Timisoara
Uni Timisoara
School f.t. blind, Arad
School f.t. PS, Bucharest
School f.t. blind, Bucharest
Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind
Train-the-Trainer, workshops
X X
Communication
• www.robobraille.org/romania
• Email list [email protected]
• Dropbox folder
• Facebook group: RoboBraille Romania
• You can always call/mail us
• [email protected] +45 2324 0672
[email protected] +45 4032 6823