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Following a survey of the existing tutoring systems for hearing impaired people the paper describes common aspects of modelling the real world when creating educational software. This involves testing and evaluating cognitive tasks with people who dispose of reduced auditory cues. To validate our concepts we used the multimedia learning system known as Whisper. We developed Whisper in 1997 and it has been evaluated extensively in special schools for the hearing impaired. Members of all the leading German rehabilitation centres have assisted in this evaluation process. Whisper implements an interactive educational system to help hearing-impaired people recognise speech errors.
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Baloian, N., Luther, W. (2003). Various modelling aspects of tutoring systems for people with auditory disabilities. In: van Weert, T.J., Munro, R.K. (eds) Informatics and the Digital Society. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 116. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35663-1_20
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