RoboBraille in Romania3rd Partner Meeting, June 2013Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara

Lars Ballieu Christensen

Tanja Stevns

Agenda

• RoboBraille Project – Status

• Pilot testing

• Mp3 player trial

• Romanian Digital Library/Libraries

• Dissemination plan

• Things to come

• RoboBraille workshops

• Next meeting – date, time location?

Status• TTS

– Mp3– Daisy

• Braille• OCR• Ebook• RoboBraille User Interface

– Web form (www.robobraille.org/web3/ro/) – Email accounts

• www.robobraille.org/web3/ro/

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?Romania BB

UniCluj

HS f.t. blind Cluj

Speranta, Timisoara

HS f.t. blind, Timisoara

Uni Timisoara

School f.t. blind, Arad

School f.t. PS, Bucharest

School f.t. blind, Bucharest

Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind

User Pilot X X X X

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?

Romanian 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

planRomania BB

UniCluj

HS f.t. blind Cluj

Speranta, Timisoara

HS f.t. blind, Timisoara

Uni Timisoara

School f.t. blind, Arad

School f.t. PS, Bucharest

School f.t. blind, Bucharest

Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind

Dissemination, outreach

X X X X X

Things to comeLLL 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• 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?

Romania BB UniCluj

HS f.t. blind Cluj

Speranta, Timisoara

HS f.t. blind, Timisoara

Uni Timisoara

School f.t. blind, Arad

School f.t. PS, Bucharest

School f.t. blind, Bucharest

Assoc/Libr. f.t. blind

Train-the-Trainer, workshops

X X

Next meeting

• At RoboBraille workshops …

Questions; comments

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Communication

• www.robobraille.org/romania

• Email list romanianpartners@robobraille.org

• Dropbox folder

• Facebook group: RoboBraille Romania

• You can always call/mail us

• tanja@robobraille.org +45 2324 0672

lars@robobraille.org +45 4032 6823