Inclusive Discussion Support System For Hard of Hearing and Hearing Students
CollabAll provides deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) individuals with a mechanism to actively participate in making decisions and getting their point across in team meetings. CollabAll provides a team with the ability to create discussion topics for their meeting, track the person currently communicating and the current topic being discussed. A key feature of CollabAll is the ability for a participant to issue real-time interjections during the meeting. Examples of interjections include: "Slow Down", "Don't Understand", "Question", etc.
Application Features
CollabAll is composed of the following key components:
Groups - represents the team an individual belongs to
Cards - represents the topic of discussion for the meeting. Multiple Cards can be associated with aGroup
Interjections - represents the different types of interruptions that a user can issue during the meeting
Meet Now - utilized by the group when they meet
Built Using Modern Web Technologies & Accessible Across Multiple Devices.
CollabAll is built as a responsive web based 3-tier system that utilizes open source technologies. As a responsive website, CollabAll can be accessed by any device with an Internet connection and utilizes the HTML 5 API to (1) vibrate the smartphone when an Interjection is issued and (2) issue Interjections when the user tilts the smartphone/tablet. The real-time notification of Interjections is implemented using Web Sockets; when the user access the Meet Now page, the user is 'subscribed' to updates in the group. The updates map to Interjections issued by users and Cards being discussed.
