1. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Sponsored by: The Danish Lottery Ministry of IT and Science EU’s Social Foundation Danida MELFO Mobil E-Læring For Ordblinde (Mobile E-learning for dyslectics) Research and development cooperative project 2006-7

2. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Who Participated Copenhagen University – Humanistics: Film and Media, Centre for Language Technology, Centre for Reading Research Danish Building Institute – Aalborg University HP Sensus Motto

3. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Solution PDA with windows mobile for reading help and reading training: Camera – photos of all kinds of texts → Synthetic speak – translating text Dictionary – general and trade specific Reading exercises – various Games as exercises

4. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Purpose and aims To empower people with different skills to read on the move using a mobile device To speed up the reading skills enabling new methods using a mobile device To minimize the number of tasks for the user to read using a mobile device To enable the user to read anything, anywhere, anytime using a mobile device To develop a platform/services that may be developed for numerous other groups (globally) To benefit from the cooperation between academic research, technological development and business To study the consequences of research

5. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte Pilot project Focus on construction workers with reading disabilities Interviews with 7 workers regarding media use/experience/attitudes and reading/ writing problems plus work-related issues Test of pilot Larger group of test persons from schools/courses – beta-testing Purpose: industry: does it work? Does it sell? language scholars: do they read better? media scholars: more knowledge about meaning of digital media

6. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte

10. Findings Users are less afraid of using a mobile device Users are learning approximately 2,000 new words in 3 month Users dare learn new “stuff” Users are showing improved confidence Users with other challenges are using the solutions

11. INC seminar / 081107 / MELFO / Gitte http://www.motto-captura.dk/