Mott Michael S
The University of Mississippi, Advanced Education Center, Tupelo, Mississippi 38804, USA.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2010 Jan;5(2):94-6. doi: 10.3109/17483100903387291.
To provide a rationale for the newly developed paper-to-digital book product, touch-user-interface (TUI) technology for improving reading comprehension for students with disabilities and developmental constraints.
TUI technology, enabling students to touch portions of the pages to actualise corresponding digital files, was theoretically and practically analysed by the author, a content-area expert in (a) reading fluency and comprehension and (b) learning disabilities, for judgment of product utility. Product function was juxtaposed with current reading research depicting learner challenges to fluency and comprehension.
TUI technology provides design solutions in-line with meeting student challenges with reading difficulty, namely that traditional paper book pages with 'too much' text block reading comprehension due to low fluency (reading rate is too slow for the brain to make sense of text causing a 'bottleneck' effect) inhibiting understanding. It is proposed that with a TUI book, with media-rich paper, less text can be used and informational equivalence achieved with the digital material activated via touch points on paper pages tethered to a computer. The audio, video and graphics meaning-based symbols systems can replace some text.
TUI technology function needs to be evaluated in applied research in classroom settings across exceptionality and development.
为新开发的纸质转数字图书产品——触摸用户界面（TUI）技术提供理论依据，该技术旨在提高残疾和发育受限学生的阅读理解能力。
作者作为（a）阅读流畅性与理解以及（b）学习障碍方面的内容领域专家，从理论和实践两方面对TUI技术进行了分析，该技术使学生能够触摸书页的某些部分以实现相应的数字文件，从而判断产品的实用性。将产品功能与当前描述学习者在流畅性和理解方面面临挑战的阅读研究进行了对比。
TUI技术提供的设计解决方案符合应对阅读困难学生的挑战，即传统纸质书页上“过多”的文本会因流畅性低（阅读速度过慢，大脑无法理解文本，从而产生“瓶颈”效应）而阻碍阅读理解。有人提出，对于一本TUI图书，使用富含媒体的纸张，可以减少文本使用量，并通过与计算机相连的纸质书页上的触摸点激活数字材料来实现信息等效。基于音频、视频和图形意义的符号系统可以取代一些文本。
TUI技术的功能需要在跨特殊情况和发展阶段的课堂环境应用研究中进行评估。
