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Item Developing e-reader application solutions for persons with Multiple Sclerosis(2012-05) Livingston, Esti; Summers, Kathryn; University of Baltimore. School of Information Arts and Technologies; University of Baltimore. Master of Science in Information Design and Information ArchitecturePeople with Multiple Sclerosis may suffer from fatigue, painful muscle spasms, and decreased coordination that may increase the difficulty of simple tasks such as holding a newspaper or turning a page in a book. Although there are many assistive technologies for persons with disabilities available, none are so accessible as iPads and Tablets. I intend to use these available technologies to design and research an e-reader application for persons with disabilities. By utilizing swipe technologies and employing universal design, a better e-reader may be sufficient for a betterment of life. To test this hypothesis, my goal was to research, design, and test an e-reader application with additional interactivity by adding hand gesture input for decreased motor functions, variable color and text characteristics for visual deterioration, and a customized interface and interaction for cognitive function corrosion.Item Development and preliminary testing of tablet application to increase reading motivation and summarization for adolescent students with ADHD(2015-08) Pinna, Joanne E.; Holman, Lucy; University of Baltimore. School of Information Arts and Technologies; University of Baltimore. Master of Science in Information Design and Information ArchitectureChildren with ADHD have a variety of difficulties with reading, including phonetics, reading comprehension, distractibility, lack of reading organizational skills and a low ability to summarize. This study created a tablet-based reading application designed to enhance their capabilities in developing a multimodal approach to reading. Participants who demonstrated difficulty in completing a reading task in a book exhibited a positive outcome on wanting to complete the reading and tasks in the application and complete their summary writing. The application encourages participants to read, answer questions about what was read about the text, record the answers, access notes written, and it aids in summarization of collected sequential information. A rubric score were used to compare summary writing differences after reading from the book and reading with the application. It was determined that there wasn't significant total score differences between the two, but the rubric score demonstrated areas of improvement.