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Virtual Environment Application that Complements the Treatment of Dyslexia (VEATD) in Children

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Information Technology and Systems (ICITS 2020)

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The educational disorders that children present at an early age can cause them to not fully develop throughout their lives. In this research work a 3D virtual system that allows the child who has been diagnosed with dyslexia to complement the exercises performed in a conventional therapy is described. To achieve this an application was developed, the app consists of two games (each with three levels of difficulty), and that are part of the rehabilitation program. In each of these games virtual objects are combined with auditory messages to provide the user with an immersive experience, and to train more than one sense at a time. In the first game task, the activity asks the children to correctly locate the syllables that compose a word and for the second activity the children will listen to a word, after the games asks the children to select the correct word. This tool has been tested by a group of children (eight), with ages ranging from 8 to 12 years old, whose development can be supervised at home by their parents, since it is an intuitive and easy to use interface. The results obtained are stored in a database and in this way the medical specialist can monitor the progress of the child throughout his treatment. For the validation of this proposal the SUS usability test was used.

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  1. SISAu Research Group, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, 180212, Ambato, Ecuador

    Jorge Buele & José Varela-Aldás

  2. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, 050104, Latacunga, Ecuador

    Jorge Buele & Victoria M. López

  3. Purdue University, Lafayette, 47907, USA

    Angel Soria

  4. University of Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    Guillermo Palacios-Navarro

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  1. DEI/FCT, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Facultad de Geografia, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Carlos Ferrás

  3. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de, Bogota, Colombia

    Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin

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Buele, J., López, V.M., Varela-Aldás, J., Soria, A., Palacios-Navarro, G. (2020). Virtual Environment Application that Complements the Treatment of Dyslexia (VEATD) in Children. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Montenegro Marin, C., Medina García, V. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1137. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_33

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