Developing A Computerized VoiceXML-Based Application For E-Education

Telephony applications in the area of education are developed mainly for the visually impaired to address the limitations of user interface of a mobile learner. However, with the proliferation of learning resources on the web, finding suitable content has become a rigorous task for voice-based online learners to achieve better performance. The problem of Finding Content Suitability (FCS) with voice e-Learning applications is more complex when the sight impaired learner is involved. Existing voice-based e-Education applications lack the attributes of adaptive and reusable learning objects to be able to address the FCS problem. This book, therefore, provides a framework for intelligent Voice-based e-Education Systems and an implementation of a system based on the framework with dual user interfaces voice and web. The results of the usability evaluation shows that the application will not only complement existing mobile and web-based learning systems but will be of immense benefit to users, based on the system s capacity for taking autonomous decisions that are capable of adapting to the needs of both visually impaired and non-visually impaired learners