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Designing and Supporting Cooperative and Ubiquitous Learning Systems for People with Special Needs
Álvaro Fernández López, María José Rodríguez Fórtiz, and Manuel Noguera García
GEDES Research Group, Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos,University of Granada, E.T.S.I. Informática y de Telecomunicación C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, 18014 Granada, Spainalvarofernandez@ugr.es
mjfortiz@ugr.es
mnoguera@ugr.es
Abstract. Cooperative work in schools helps students to learn behaviour norms, tolerate their partners and educators, and make decisions or accept the decisions from other people. In case of students with cognitive disabilities, cooperative work contributes to the socialization of the students by improving the communication and the integration in the classroom. New technologies foster guided and cooperative learning through didactic exercises and educational activities that adapt the educative context to user’s needs and abilities. For this objective, the design must take into account non-funcional requirements for provide a future adaptation. This paper presents the design of one of such systems and the main decisions made in order to improve usability, adaptation, flexibility, and accessibility in ubiquitous spaces of it. The general architecture of the system and the platform that supports the development process of its software for educational activities are described in a real case study.
Keywords: Disability, Adaptation to User Impairments, Mobile Devices, Social Integration, Cooperative Learning, Adaptive Technologies
LNCS 5872, p. 423 ff.
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009