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Multimodal Attention Stimulator

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Multimodal attention stimulator was proposed and tested for improving auditory and visual attention, including pupils with developmental dyslexia. Results of the conducted experiments shown that the designed stimulator can be used in order to improve comprehension during reading tasks. The changes in the visual attention, observed in reading test results, translate into the overall reading performance.

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Acknowledgments

The project is partially funded by the National Science Centre of Poland on the basis of the decision DEC-2014/15/B/ST7/04724. Authors wish to acknowledge the work with children done by Dr. Andrzej Senderski employed by the Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland.

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  1. ETI Faculty, Multimedia Systems Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

    Andrzej Czyzewski, Bozena Kostek & Lukasz Kosikowski

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Correspondence to Andrzej Czyzewski .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

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  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Czyzewski, A., Kostek, B., Kosikowski, L. (2016). Multimodal Attention Stimulator. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_80

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