Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia

Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they hav...

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Main Author: Yeoh, Pui Yeng
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Language:English
English
Published: 2016
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description Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they have normal intelligence and were exposed to sufficient education and training. This research aims to find out whether sonification concept can be used in the design of assistive tools for dyslexic students. Before any sonification based assistive tools can be designed, it is important to understand the fundamental issues, which are the listening performances of dyslexic peoples. Based on the tasks used in measuring usability properties of sonification applications, a listening test experimental design was developed and the performance results were analyzed. The overall results show that people who have dyslexia can be concluded as equivalent to normal people in performing general tasks in sonification concepts. However, there are some interesting results that might need to be taken into consideration for future research enhancements.
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spelling ums.eprints-394202024-08-05T02:53:09Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39420/ Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia Yeoh, Pui Yeng LB1050.9-1091 Educational psychology RJ370-550 Diseases of children and adolescents TK7800-8360 Electronics Sonification is merely a new research field. It is defined as the representation of data or information using non-speech sound. Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that causes a person who has dyslexia to have problems in reading, writing, spelling or manipulating numbers even though they have normal intelligence and were exposed to sufficient education and training. This research aims to find out whether sonification concept can be used in the design of assistive tools for dyslexic students. Before any sonification based assistive tools can be designed, it is important to understand the fundamental issues, which are the listening performances of dyslexic peoples. Based on the tasks used in measuring usability properties of sonification applications, a listening test experimental design was developed and the performance results were analyzed. The overall results show that people who have dyslexia can be concluded as equivalent to normal people in performing general tasks in sonification concepts. However, there are some interesting results that might need to be taken into consideration for future research enhancements. 2016 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39420/1/24%20PAGES.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39420/2/FULLTEXT.pdf Yeoh, Pui Yeng (2016) Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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RJ370-550 Diseases of children and adolescents
TK7800-8360 Electronics
Yeoh, Pui Yeng
Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_full Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_fullStr Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
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title_short Performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
title_sort performance evaluation of sonification concept for dyslexia
topic LB1050.9-1091 Educational psychology
RJ370-550 Diseases of children and adolescents
TK7800-8360 Electronics
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