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Br’Eye: An Android Mobile Application to Teach Arabic and French Braille Alphabets to Blind Children in Tunisia

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This paper presents an Android mobile application consisting in an educational content for visually handicapped children in Tunisia. The application involves simple and various interfaces that aim to teach Braille alphabet in both Arabic and French. It uses multimodal interaction methods as well as a novel approach to help young users locate areas of interest on the screen.

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Notes

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    Arabic is read/written from right to left, however, following the international convention, Arabic Braille is read from left to right.

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    Ecole primaire Ennour, Ben Arous, Tunis.

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  1. Riadi, University of Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia

    Amina Bouraoui

  2. Institut Supérieur des Technologies Médicales-ISTMT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Amina Bouraoui

  3. Tunis, Tunisia

    Mejdi Soufi

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  1. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

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  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

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Bouraoui, A., Soufi, M. (2018). Br’Eye: An Android Mobile Application to Teach Arabic and French Braille Alphabets to Blind Children in Tunisia. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94277-3_56

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