Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EMPOWER (Design and evaluation of technological support tools to empower stakeholders in digital education)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2022-10-01 do 2023-09-30
The core objective of EMPOWER is to develop and deploy a unique learning platform for personalised education for children with NDDs that goes beyond current approaches and paradigms and empowers teachers to support children with NDDs in their academic learning and inclusion. Children are expected to improve their learning and emotional skills using a game-based approach, and teachers and schools are expected to increase their knowledge and available tools to provide an optimised response to neurodiverse children. These improvements are expected to facilitate their participation in the educational system and improve their quality of life.
EMPOWER has developed a theoretical educational assessment and intervention model that can be implemented using an integrated technological platform. This platform is focused on executive functions and self-regulation training throughout nine serious games, with more than half of them being developed and piloted in this first period with positive results. The EMPOWER platform integrates the gamification of educational objectives with machine-learning, wearable, and eye-tracking sensors. The EMPOWER team has been reaching these general aims step-by-step by attaining the objectives established in the original plan. The EMPOWER team has been reaching the project’s goals. It has attained its objectives through more restricted weekly and more general bi-weekly multidisciplinary meetings with different representatives of the different work packages to follow structured coordination of tasks involving the development and testing of the game platform.