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Society@school, a Telecom-Italia Social Reading application designed as a tool for education (presented in its first version at HCI International 2013) turned out to be a useful tool for students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). Social reading could be a way to compensate some SLD, such as dyslexia, allowing a real inclusion of these students in the school system. The design process, aimed at including specific design requirements for SLD students with a user-centered design approach, is presented.
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Lucia, L., Elena, G., Alessandra, T., Maurizio, B., Rossana, AG. (2014). Society@school: Towards an e-Inclusion App for Social Reading. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology-Rich Environments for Learning and Collaboration. LCT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07485-6_16
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