Dot-to-Dot: Pre-reading Assessment of Literacy Risk via a Visual-Motor Mechanism on Touchscreen Devices

Wonjeong Park, Paulo Revés, Augusto Esteves, Jon M. Kerridge, Dongsun Yim, Uran Oh

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Abstract

While early identification of children with dyslexia is crucial, it is difficult to assess literacy risks of these children early on before they learn to read. In this study, we expand early work on Dot-to-Dot (DtD), a non-linguistic visual-motor mechanism aimed at facilitating the detection of the potential reading difficulties of children at pre-reading age. To investigate the effectiveness of this approach on touchscreen devices, we conducted a user study with 33 children and examined their task performance logs as well as language test results. Our findings suggest that there is a significant correlation among DtD task and series of language tests. We conclude the work by suggesting different ways in which DtD could be seamlessly embedded into everyday mobile use cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021 - 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsCarmelo Ardito, Rosa Lanzilotti, Alessio Malizia, Alessio Malizia, Helen Petrie, Antonio Piccinno, Giuseppe Desolda, Kori Inkpen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages192-212
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9783030856229
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 30 Aug 20213 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12932 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period30/08/213/09/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

Keywords

  • Developmental dyslexia
  • Literacy risk
  • Pre-reading assessment
  • Visual-motor tracing

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