AHA pilot project focuses in particular on the implementation and integration of existing technologies (mobile apps, online literacy programme, and augmented reality development) to enhance learning for students with ADHD, assist their parents and educators during the teaching and assessment process and investigate whether the combination of such technologies can assist students with ADHD to stay focused, make fewer mistakes and to finish assignments at school as well as homework. AHA will deliver an Augmented Reality (AR) solution for an existing on line literacy programme, which integrates a set of specific technologies and supports interactive educational content, services, assessment and feedback. Development of AHA will focus on the cooperation with academia, ADHD experts, schools and providers of existing digital solutions that will define the framework and interoperability requirements of such a data-driven intensive and innovative digital learning ecosystem. AHA will carry out and evaluate representative pilots with students with participating schools in Ireland based on a robust pedagogical approach with existing digital technologies. Although Ireland has been chosen as a test-bed for this pilot project, the results aim to have a real world impact, at European level and Internationally.
Within this MSc project the student will be required to utilise Agile software development to integrate the existing web based WHAAM application from our Italian Partners (http://www.whaamproject.eu/) within the AHA web site (http://aha.ucd.ie/). The consortium has finalised the main observation variables during the web-based literacy intervention with and without Augmented Reality. There is a major research component in terms of the visualisation of the data analytics from the observations provided from the teachers and parents of the students with ADHD during the AHA intervention.
The student should have some web-based development expertise. We will be using: Code-Igniter website framework; LAMP – Linux, Apache MySQL, PHP, HTML5, CSS, SSL, Responsive
If you are interested do not hesitate to contact me: eleni.mangina@ucd.ie