Paper Presented at the Web for All Conference in Perth, Australia
M. Rauschenberger, L. Rello, R. Baeza-yates, E. Gomez, and J. P. Bigham, “Towards the Prediction of Dyslexia by a Web-based Game with Musical Elements,” w4a, pp. 4–7, 2017.
The generated musical elements are available at http://bit.ly/2jeejmC
The demo of the prototype DysMusic is available at http://bit.ly/DysMus
More Project can be found on www.mariarauschenberger.com
Abstract:
Current tools for screening dyslexia use linguistic elements,since most dyslexia manifestations are related to difficulties in reading and writing. These tools can only be used with children that have already acquired some reading skills and; sometimes, this detection comes too late to apply proper re-mediation. In this paper, we propose a method and present DysMusic, a prototype which aims to predict risk of having dyslexia before acquiring reading skills. The prototype was designed with the help of five children and five parents who tested the game using the think aloud protocol and being observed while playing. The advantages of DysMusicare that the approach is language independent and could be used with younger children,i.e., pre-readers.
10. Indicators
• Short-term memory difficulties
• Phonological memory / awareness
• Working memory
⇒ For Readers and Pre-Readers
DysMusic
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K. Overy. Dyslexia, Temporal Processing and Music: The
Potential of Music as an Early Learning Aid for Dyslexic
Children. Psychology of Music, 28(2):218–229, oct 2000.
R. F. Port, “Meter and speech,” J. Phon., vol. 31, pp.
599–611, 2003.
13. Tasks Related to Indicators
• Finding the same sound
• Distinguishing between sounds
• Short time interval perception, e.g.
short-time intervals
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Huss, M., Verney, J. P., Fosker, T., Mead, N., &
Goswami, U. (2011). Music, rhythm, rise time
perception and developmental dyslexia:
Perception of musical meter predicts reading and
phonology. Cortex, 47(6), 674–689.
14. Example of One Musical Element (Rhythm)
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17. Example
• 4 tasks, each with 2 subtasks
• One subtask with 4 cards,
the other with 6 cards
• 4 different acoustic parameters
• Frequency
• Length
• Rise Time
• Rhythm
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Huss, M., Verney, J. P., Fosker, T., Mead,
N., & Goswami, U. (2011). Music, rhythm, rise
time perception and developmental dyslexia:
Perception of musical meter predicts reading and
phonology. Cortex, 47(6), 674–689.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.010
19. Usability Study
• 5 users study
• five children (user) and five parents
• within-subject design, counter-balanced
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J. Nielsen. Why You Only Need to Test with 5
Users. Jakob Nielsens Alertbox, 19 (September
23):1–4, 2000.