Project AGENT-DYSL

Accommodative Intelligent Educational Environments for Dyslexic Learners

The project focuses on the development of novel technologies and tools for supporting children with dyslexia in reading. Dyslexia has been chosen as the main disability to focus, since it is the most common cause of reading difficulty – it is estimated that one in 10-20 children is dyslexic. Despite the fact that several assistive reading software packages are available, there are prominent features which the continuously evolving Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer that are absent from these tools (especially from the fields of knowledge technologies, semantic web, user-centric interfaces, information retrieval). One of the main objectives of AGENT-DYSL is the incorporation of these prominent features into assistive reading software and the move to the next generation of assistive software. The features include automated user modelling, age-appropriate and dyslexia-sensitive user interfaces, automatic user progress monitoring, automatic user’s psychological and emotional state tracking, knowledge assisted reasoning and evaluation of information, personalized user interfaces that adapt to the individual requirements of each dyslexic learner.

FZI is a key contributor to the realization of adaptive behavior of the system. Semantic technologies are used which encode the knowledge of dyslexia experts in a descriptive and understandable way.

Overview Paper

Maria Athanasaki, Maria Avramouli, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos Kollias, Klimis Ntalianis, Andreas Schmidt, Antonis Symvonis, Francesc Valcarcel: AGENT-DYSL: A Novel Intelligent Reading System for Dyslexic Learners. In: Miriam Cunningham and Paul Cunningham (eds.): eChallenges 2007, 2007 

• Aided: EU-IST FP6 (eInclusion)
• URL: http://www.agent-dysl.eu
• Contact: Andreas Schmidt ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
• Involved divisions: IPE