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Dyslexia Explorer is a screening program for dyslexia that focuses on mapping visual patterns of reading Arabic scripts to reading difficulties. Dyslexia Explorer is designed to process the eye gaze patterns exhibited by readers with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) in screening sessions with Arabic stimuli. The screening is based on gaze measures of eye fixation duration for the Area Of Interest (AOI), mean fixation duration, fixation count for the AOI, total fixations count, backward patterns (within words, lines and paragraph). The system is a novel contribution in screening for reading difficulties in the Arabic language. It helps in diagnosing dyslexia by specifying reading deficits, providing objective gaze metrics and linking them to phonological processing difficulties of readers.
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Al-Edaily, A., Al-Wabil, A., Al-Ohali, Y. (2013). Interactive Screening for Learning Difficulties: Analyzing Visual Patterns of Reading Arabic Scripts with Eye Tracking. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_1
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