| Faculty name: | Ronald Baecker |
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| Research area: | Human-computer interaction |
| Campus address: | Bahen 7228 |
| Campus phone: | 416-978-6983 |
| Email address: |
ron [at] taglab.ca
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| Number of students: | 1 |
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Despite the exponential growth of the e-book marketplace, there is no technology explicitly designed to aid reading by individuals who are blind, or have severe vision loss, or cannot hold a book, or cannot turn pages, or have cognitive challenges, or who are reading text in English as a second language. We have begun development of a technology designed for such individuals who cannot read standard e-books.
The summer student will join the ALLT research team; will design, prototype, debug, test, and document several new features for ALLT, likely dealing with its robustness as a client e-book communicating with a central server, and as an interface supporting rich modes of multimedia and multimodal interaction; and will participate in ongoing work testing the technology’s usefulness and usability by real users. He or she will work under the direct guidance and mentorship of a Ph.D. student or research associate.