[oats-sig] Screencast and 'Free our Symbols'

Great job Jonathan!

Mats,

excellent feedback, the reality is the project is 'proof of concept'  
to encourage and help understanding of the issues.
particularly amongst browser and specification developers.
Also to encourage Bliss and other symbol copyright holders to consider  
benefits of publishing

Taking it forward requires European partners, and there has already  
been significant interest.
perhaps you'd consider this?

in the short term it is possible that separate communities using  
limited sets of symbols will communicate independent of each other.
language is one very obvious barrier, symbols sets another.
perhaps using applications with parts that are held in common.

one of the objectives of the project is to test the benefits of  
grouping symbols in categories and providing a group symbol.
as our users are known to have difficulties generalising and  
transferring knowledge.
The methodology of the web makes the need for these topic symbols far  
more apparent, eg home
whereas a book never had such a thing as a 'home' iirc.

naturally I would very much welcome your support in respect of any  
aspect of development

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
http://www.openicon.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764

On 9 Jul 2008, at 23:53, Mats Lundälv wrote:

> Great job Jonathan!
>
> I had some problems viewing your demo due to my poor and slow mobile  
> connection. But as far as I could see your demo was nice and clear,  
> but I suppose many visitors may need some additional short  
> introduction to understand what you're aiming at.
>
> About your overall approach: It is a bit unclear to me how you  
> envisage that these features will be employed by the target users.  
> From my experience many of the potential target users would  
> (hopefully) be used to some kind of AAC to help them communicate - a  
> familiar symbol vocabulary, organised in a special way. They will  
> have invested substantial time and effort to master that vocabulary  
> and the structure it is organised in. For these users it will be  
> very essential to be able to apply those same AAC resources and  
> skills also on your chat forum etc. - and not be faced with a  
> totally new environment. How do you envisage this? The symbol  
> resources you and potentially other people will offer within your  
> framework could be a very interesting resource to explore and learn  
> to use for these users, but they would typically want that as a  
> complement to their existing AAC tools - not instead of. This is  
> what we recently found - confirming our old experiences - in the  
> NavigAbile project, where the option to re-map their existing  
> personal AAC resoures reasonably well on the web was rated very high  
> and even a necessary precondition for their motivation to participate.
>
> Do you plan to supply speech support as well? We have found that  
> very essential as well, in addition to the graphical symbol and text  
> modalities.
>
> Cheers,
> Mats
>
> -----<oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk> skrev: -----
> Screencast and 'Free our Symbols'
>
> anyone know of a decent foss screencast application with audio for  
> os x?
> http://www.openicon.org now has a screencast please send me your  
> comments.
>
> The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that  
> could improve the way public information is communicated.
> You can read my entry 'Free our Symbols' here:
> http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/write-it.html
>
> regards
>
>
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
>
> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/
>
>
> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>
>
>
>

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