OCR Perspectives in Mobile Teaching and Learning for Early School Years in Basic Education
Thi Thi Zin, Swe Zar Maw, Pyke Tin · 2019 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech) · 2019
In these days, teaching and learning systems in schools with the use of mobile or portable devices such as tablets, e-readers, smartphones are becoming keen interests of educators as well as parents and teachers in worldwide. In this aspect, the early years of school children in basic education are the most challenging and important in developing effective and quality education for life. Since they are quite young and unable to dedicate time the need for easy to use and effective learning aids has become vital. Especially their writing skills are somehow needed to be improved with encouragements. In order to do so, the handwritten of characters and numerals performed by the children especially those living in less developing countries should be correctly recognized so that means and ways for remedies and solutions for improvements could be found. Thus the optical character recognition techniques for handwritten alphabets and numerals are moving into front especially the handwritten of children of early years in schools. In this paper, we introduce a Mobile Tutor-an effective and correct way of character segmentation and recognition of messy and unclear handwritten characters to help children learn and practice handwriting and early numeric operations such as addition and subtraction as well as help teachers monitor and review children's progress. Some experiments are performed by providing tablets to the users and collecting handwritten characters from the users for recognition and analysis.