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APADYT: a multimedia application for SEN learners

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Information technologies have been increasingly used in education in recent years, mainly due to their possibilities of improving the classroom experience, especially those related to multimedia facilities. The new technologies are especially useful for the Special Educational Needs (SEN) group. In this paper we introduce APADYT Professional (Aplicación Psicopedagógica para Apoyo en Diagnóstico Y Tratamiento—Psychopedagogical APplicAtion for supporting Diagnosis & Education), an application developed in collaboration with SEN teachers, children with SEN and parents. This multimedia application supports SEN treatment and it exploits multi-touch interfaces to offer SEN learners multimedia learning activities. The main advantage of APADYT Professional is that it helps teachers’ work by providing them with a single application that supports multiple tasks. In this way APADYT fills the gap in the existing applications, by supporting pupil management, computer-assisted learning process, report generation, planning, communication between parents and specialists, authoring tools and others interesting facilities in an integrated way. User-centered techniques have been successfully used for the development of APADYT, as the results of the User eXperience (UX) assessment reported in this paper shows, These results also shows that the approach followed to design this multimedia application is extremely appreciated by SEN teachers and specialists.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Alicia Andrés Jimenez and Julia Lara Calero of the Marta Valcarcel Educational Psychology Center for their contribution to our background knowledge of this problem. We would like also to thank our colleagues Juan I. Del Castillo, Luis Cañamares and Arturo Rodríguez, who helped to make APADYT a reality and the Department of the Psychology of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. We are grateful to Microsoft Ibérica for the technical support provided during the development of APADYT. This work has been partially supported by a grant (PEII09-0054-9581) from the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and also by a grant (TIN2008-06596-C02-01) from the Spanish Government.

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Rubio, G., Navarro, E. & Montero, F. APADYT: a multimedia application for SEN learners. Multimed Tools Appl 71, 1771–1802 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1304-9

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