Javier Linares Torralvo

EMOTIONAL SUBTITLES: a system and potential applications for deaf and hearing impaired people
James Ohene-Djan, Jenny Wright and Kirsty Combie-Smith

This article deals with how subtitles can have an emotional approach to deaf and hearing impaired people. For this purpose, an emotional editor was developed, allowing users to change the type, colour and size of the fonts, matching this way the desire emotion (colours can be used to represent the speech of a character).
From my point of view, this is a simple but very interesting paper. Teachers for students with specials needs could use this emotional subtitle editor as a tool for their classes when movies projections are part of the curriculum.
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-415/paper19.pdf


"FROM DOTS TO SHAPES": an auditory haptic game platform for teaching geometry to blind pupils
Patrick Roth, Lori Petrucci, Thierry Pun
This paper describes "From Dots to Shapes" (FDTS), an auditory platform composed by three classic games ("Simon", "Point Connecting" and "Concentration Game") for blind and visually impaired pupils. Each game was adapted to work on a concept of the Euclidean geometry (2D). The tool is based on sonic and haptic interaction, and therefore could be used by special educators as a help for teaching basic planar geometry.
http://en.scientificcommons.org/455484