1. Development Team: Mirza NagjiTony Penta Jessica WhitleyRyan Hillman Ian QuattlebaumQuentin Dubois Jack Enloe Client: Gary Bishop

2. Purpose Game for kids that are Blind Fun and/or Educational Audio and Video

3. Typing Tutor –Accessible to sighted and blind –Teaches basic typing skills –Slow Progression through keys Increasing difficulty From letters up to words What is our Project

4. We divided the team into three groups to maximize efficiency… The Plan develop a conceptual framework for how the game works takes care of all major and minor details of the game. will design the user interface takes care of initial problems blind students may have with starting the game. will deal with actual development of the game. this includes sounds, timing, etc.

5. C# –Direct Sound Support –Web-deliverable Audio clues –Text-to-Speech –Recorded Wav files –Instructions read out loud Keyboard Interaction How Are we Doing this?

6. The Real Reasons All Kids tested on typing skills Chance to reach out and help Have fun and be creative Inexpensive alternative

7. The Other Options Currently available tutor - Cheap, but not accessible Talking tutors - EXPENSIVE Hardware Solutions -Expensive and not effective

8. Slow going at First –Getting to know everyone –Unsure about task at hand Unfamiliar with C# –Sound –VS.Net What am I doing? Problems

9. Constructive group meeting –Needed to meet deadlines –Group Programming Research –Got books –Talked to those familiar with C# Delegation –Sense of Responsibility Solutions

10. Everyone did their part –Separation of tasks Getting a working model –Groups Coding Sessions –Individual updates Tactics

11. On internet –Download as one package –Installer Sit back, Relax, Listen! The Demo