Translation from Braille Music Mark-up Language to DAISYXML

As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group

Adaptations et interactions gestuelles et haptiques, ciblées utilisateurs (vers plus d'utilisabilité et d'accessibilité)

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TaBGO : Programmation par blocs tangibles Résumé

International audienceIn this article, we describe the solution TaBGO (Tangible Block Goes Online), which makes a visual programming language like Scratch more accessible to blind and visually impaired people. This system contains some tangible objects representing the different blocks and the different variables and a software recognizing these objects automatically in order to generate and to execute the program produced by the user.Dans cet article, nous décrivons la solution TaBGO (Tangible Block Goes Online) permettant de rendre accessible par des non-voyants l’utilisation d’un langage de programmation par blocs de type Scratch. Ce dispositif comprend des objets tangibles représentant les différents blocs et les différentes variables et un logiciel automatique de reconnaissance de ces objets permettant de générer et d’exécuter le programme conçu par l’utilisateur

Translation from Braille Music Mark-up Language to DAISYXML

As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group

TaBGO : Programmation par blocs tangibles

International audienceDans cet article, nous décrivons la solution TaBGO (Tangible Block Goes Online) permettant de rendre accessible par des non-voyants l'utilisation d'un langage de programmation par blocs de type Scratch. Ce dispositif comprend des objets tangibles représentant les différents blocs et les différentes variables et un logiciel automatique de reconnaissance de ces objets permettant de générer et d'exécuter le programme conçu par l'utilisateur

Translation from Braille Music Mark-up Language to DAISYXML

As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group

Unsupervised Outlier Detection: students profiling in an effort to indicate learning problems in Higher Educational Institutions

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Quelle modélisation des profils utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux numériques ?

Introduction L’analyse des réseaux sociaux est menée dans le domaine des sciences sociales depuis les années 1930 (Breslin, Decker, 2007). Cette analyse vise d’une part, à identifier les structures sociales distinctes dans les réseaux, et d’autre part, à expliquer le comportement des individus au sein ces structures sociales, au moyen de modèles mathématiques ou d’éléments de la sociométrie. L’avènement du Web social ou Web 2.0 a énormément favorisé le développement des réseaux sociaux en lig..

Examining Students’ Behavior in a Digital Simulation Game for Nurse Training

International audienceDigital educational games have evolved in recent years due to the need to support education and training focused on non-technical skills. Data gathered through interaction with the graphical user interface are explored and exploited to analyze the players' experience. Many researchers have pointed to the importance of analysis of players' in-game behavior, which can help to enhance the learning process, identify learners' strategies, and improve the effectiveness of the serious game. This study is devoted to the analysis of students' behavior in a simulation game called CLONE, which targets work scheduling, situation awareness, and decision-making. The students performance and their behavioral strategies are examined based on sequences analysis of players' in-game actions. Moreover, outlier detection is proposed as an instrument for obtaining information that might help better understand students behavior. The findings of the study have shown that such indicators as time spent on planning schedule, time spent on inspecting additional information, and intensity of delegation activity are significantly higher for successful games than for lost ones. The sequences analysis and clustering have revealed students' prevailing in-game strategies, which mostly consist of inspection, reading medical records, delegation, and scheduling. Eventually, outlier detection has disclosed the game sessions with uncertain strategies and unstructured scheduling

Data accessibility on social networking sites

Social networks have been an object of analysis by the social sciences since the 1930s. The first challenge in performing these analyses is to gather information on the structure of these networks and on their activities. With the advent of Web 2.0 and semantic Web technologies, several different mechanisms can be used for this. However, few users are aware of how easy it is to access and manipulate the traces left by their activities and, especially on the social networks, by their personal data, which is becoming increasingly public. In this article, we look into the different ways of accessing data on the social networks, and – on Facebook in particular – into the quality and quantity of the information available and therefore the potential risks of users finding that third parties are accessing and manipulating their personal information. An experiment conducted via API Facebook (7 081 user profiles) shows that a great deal of information is accessible that can be used to automatically reconstruct a user’s actual network from their profile.L’analyse des réseaux sociaux est menée dans le domaine des sciences sociales depuis les années 1930. Le premier enjeu pour réaliser ces analyses se situe dans la collecte de l’information sur la structure de ces réseaux et sur leurs activités. Avec l’avènement du Web 2.0 et des technologies du Web sémantique, plusieurs mécanismes de collecte d’information sont désormais envisageables. Cependant, très peu d’utilisateurs sont conscients des facilités d’atteinte et de manipulation de leurs traces d’activités et de leurs données personnelles de plus en plus rendus publics sur les réseaux socionumériques en particulier. Dans cet article, nous étudions les différentes approches permettant l’accès aux données dans les réseaux socionumériques, en nous intéressant − dans le cas précis de Facebook − à la qualité et la quantité de l’information accessible, et par conséquent, aux risques potentiels d’atteinte et de manipulation des données personnelles des utilisateurs par des tiers. Une expérimentation menée via l’API Facebook (sur 7 081 profils) démontre l’accessibilité à un nombre important d’informations pouvant permettre de reconstruire automatiquement le réseau réel d’un utilisateur à partir de son profil