Browsing by Author "Jayadewa, K. W. C"

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Document Reader for Vision Impaired Elementary School Children to Identify Printed Images
(IEEE, 2019-12-05) Gamage, N. D. U; Jayadewa, K. W. C; Jayakody, A
Vision Impairment is a severe reduction of one or more functions of the eye. The print disability prevents a person from gaining information from printed material in the standard way and requires them to utilize alternative methods to access the information. World Health Organization estimated that nineteen (19) million children are visually impaired worldwide. As they are the future of the world it is necessary to eradicate barriers to the journey of gaining knowledge. Hence, this paper presents a mobile-based application targeting elementary school students to read textual documents, which contains a graphical image. The mobile application provides audio assistance to navigate through a mobile application, autofocused image capturing of printed papers, store captured images, classify selected text, images, and read-aloud generated digitized text. Therefore, “Schmoozer” would allow visually impaired individuals to read unbraided documents without others' interaction. Furthermore, this paper discusses the test results and evaluations to justify the feasibility of the proposed solution.
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Document Reader for Vision Impaired Elementary School Children to Identify Printed Images
(IEEE, 2019-12-05) Gamage, N. D. U; Jayadewa, K. W. C; Jayakody, J. A. D. C. A
Vision Impairment is a severe reduction of one or more functions of the eye. The print disability prevents a person from gaining information from printed material in the standard way and requires them to utilize alternative methods to access the information. World Health Organization estimated that nineteen (19) million children are visually impaired worldwide. As they are the future of the world it is necessary to eradicate barriers to the journey of gaining knowledge. Hence, this paper presents a mobile-based application targeting elementary school students to read textual documents, which contains a graphical image. The mobile application provides audio assistance to navigate through a mobile application, autofocused image capturing of printed papers, store captured images, classify selected text, images, and read-aloud generated digitized text. Therefore, “Schmoozer” would allow visually impaired individuals to read unbraided documents without others' interaction. Furthermore, this paper discusses the test results and evaluations to justify the feasibility of the proposed solution.
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Press plus-interactive mobile application for effective news reading
(IEEE, 2017-08-22) Gamage, N. D. U; Udeshitha, K. L. A. D; Jayadewa, K. W. C; Senanayake, S. M. N. K. B; Samarakoon, S. M. U. P; Hennayake, T. M
Presently younger generation relies more on mobile applications to acquire information instead of traditional methods. Hence, customary approaches of information distribution required to reinforce by modern technology. Especially newspaper industry needs a certain technology enhancement to make the reading experience more interesting and pleasurable for readers. The “Press Plus” is an application to form an association between the newspaper and modern technology to promote newspaper reading by allowing the user to watch news related videos via their smartphone. This application uses scanning and retrieving data through QR code technology with the collaboration of mobile & web application. The mobile application provides three main facilities; Video playback controller; which allows users to scan printed QR code and play news related videos, Top list; which permit users to rate and view top rated videos and live stream; which facilitate users to watch live events independent from location and time. Additionally to the application, a separate survey was conducted to evaluate newspapers reading habits of youth in Sri Lankan context. Survey results indicate that a large number of individuals prefer newspapers reading via modern technologies such as mobile applications. “Press Plus” is beneficial to both newspaper readers and publishers in many ways. It helps to enhance a number of newspaper readers by making it more attractive and pleasurable. In addition, readers get a novel experience while reading newspapers. Publishers indirectly can gain revenue through branding, marketing and event promotions via this application.