Diseño y desarrollo de un repositorio y buscador de aplicaciones móviles pedagógicas para personas con discapacidad

Abstract

The World Health Organization estimates that today more than one billion people live with some form of disability. Despite this situation, many countries especially those in the developing world, do not count on the resources that incorporate adequate technological and methodological aspects to support the educational process or rehabilitation of these people. On the other hand, with the development of information and communication technologies, a large number of mobile applications are available that can provide a key input for educational support for disabled people worldwide. In this paper, a system is presented that conducts an automatic compilation of mobile educational applications tailored to the specific needs of individual users. Which is made possible based on artificial intelligence techniques such as ontologies, hierarchical agglomerative clustering techniques, natural language processing and WebCrawlers. The information for mobile applications is extracted from Google Play and the App Store and is intended to provide educational guidance for life skills. The system allowed to collect and extract automatically more than 15,000 mobile applications. From this set of applications to random sample was reviewed and validated by an expert team of 25 students from the "Career in Early Education, Early Stimulation and Early Intervention" at the "Universidad del Azuay". An applied survey was done to said group of students, obtaining a value of 0.8936218 relative to the Cronbach Alpha coefficient.