RoboBraille in Bulgaria
3rd Partner Meeting, June 2013
Ruse, Sofia, Plodiv
Lars Ballieu Christensen
Tanja Stevns
Agenda
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RoboBraille Project – Status
Pilot testing
Mp3 player trial
Bulgarian Digital Library/Libraries
Dissemination plan
Things to come
RoboBraille workshops
Next meeting – date, time location?
Status
• TTS
– Mp3
– Daisy
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Braille
OCR
Ebook
RoboBraille User Interface
– Web form (www.robobraille.org/web3/bg/)
– Email accounts
• www.robobraille.org/web3/bg/
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?
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?
Bulgarian 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 plan
Things to come
LLL 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
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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?
Next meeting
• At RoboBraille workshops …
Questions; comments
Communication
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www.robobraille.org/bulgaria
Email list [email protected]
Dropbox folder
Facebook group: RoboBraille Bulgaria
You can always call/mail us
[email protected] +45 2324 0672
[email protected] +45 4032 6823