Employing Usability Engineering in the Development of Assistive Technology Tools for People with Learning Disabilities

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Author

Onintra Poobrasert, NECTEC, Thailand

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, Jun 29, 2010 in Toronto, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-81-5

Abstract

To conduct usability engineering or usability testing is to let the design and development teams identify problems or errors before they gets difficult and expensive to make major changes. This paper therefore details a study to test usability testing of Thai Talking Word Prediction 2.0, an assistive technology tool for enhancing people with learning disabilities in their writing. Thai Talking Word Prediction 2.0 is capable to work with various text editors such as Notepad, Microsoft Office, and Open Office. Moreover, the result shows that the program works well on some operating systems. Those operating systems are such as Windows XP and Windows 7. Additionally, the overall results from the users indicated that Thai Talking Word Prediction 2.0 is user flexibility and user friendly as well as suitable for people with learning disabilities.

Citation

Poobrasert, O. (2010). Employing Usability Engineering in the Development of Assistive Technology Tools for People with Learning Disabilities. In J. Herrington & C. Montgomerie (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2010--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 110-114). Toronto, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 5, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/34626.