RoboBraille in Bulgaria 3 rd Partner Meeting, June 2013 Ruse, Sofia, Plodiv Lars Ballieu Christensen Tanja Stevns
Agenda 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 Braille OCR Ebook RoboBraille User Interface –Web form ( – accounts
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 representative users Time frame and 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 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 list Dropbox folder Facebook group: RoboBraille Bulgaria You can always call/mail us