Mobile Cloud Computing for Dyslexic Students

This project focuses on developing a mobile cloud computing framework aimed at aiding dyslexic students in their educational process. It addresses the unique challenges faced by these students and proposes a solution that leverages mobile technology to enhance learning experiences. The framework is designed to be flexible and adaptable to individual learning styles, ensuring that dyslexic students can access educational resources anytime and anywhere. The project includes a detailed plan, methodology, and proposed system architecture to effectively support dyslexic learners.

Running Head: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION
Mobile Cloud Computing and Aiding Dyslexic Students
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction to Mobile Cloud Computing and Aid of Dyslexic Students.................................2
2.0 Rationale....................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Problem Domain....................................................................................................................4
2.2 Purpose and Justification.......................................................................................................6
3.0 Proposed Framework.................................................................................................................6
4.0 Methodology..............................................................................................................................8
4.1 Research and System Development Methods........................................................................8
4.2 Compliance Requirement......................................................................................................8
5.0 Project Plan................................................................................................................................8
5.1 Project Aim............................................................................................................................8
5.2 Project Deliverables and Schedule........................................................................................8
5.3 Gantt Chart...........................................................................................................................11
5.4 Work Breakdown Structure.................................................................................................13
6.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................13
References......................................................................................................................................15

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1.0 Introduction to Mobile Cloud Computing and Aid of Dyslexic Students
As mobile innovations turn out to be more far reaching, mobile learning (m-learning) has
turned into a prevailing, effective way to deal with instruct, educate, and prepare the world. M-
learning significantly affects how individuals, particularly dyslexic understudies, learn. In spite
of the fact that there is a decent measure of research covering m-learning for dyslexia, there are
many holes that still should be tended to (Subramanian et al., 2014). Cloud computing is a
current technology that has gotten consideration from governments and an assortment of
businesses, including prescription, instruction, amusement, and other monetary areas. In cloud
computing, equipment and programming give administrations to end clients in view of the
clients' needs. One extensive issue is the absence of a compelling m-learning structure that meets
the genuine needs of dyslexic understudies in light of their social foundations. In this paper, the
creators build up a cloud-based m-learning structure engineering and feature the rules of the
compelling arrangement that ought to be met in the outline stage (Pejovic & Musolesi, 2015).
The proposed system design upgrades understudies' close to home and learning capacities by
giving flexibility to meet their learning needs. Cloud computing offers many favorable
circumstances, for example, sparing the cost of the underlying interests in an information
technology (IT) infrastructure setup. Clients can work the product, stage, and infrastructure gave
by a cloud computing supplier effortlessly. Besides, cloud computing supplies assets to clients as
on-request benefits (Baccarelli et al., 2016). It offers elite and additionally quick time-to-market
and catastrophe administration abilities, which takes into consideration the portability and
adaptability of information.

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With the quickened improvement of the previous decades, a rising insurgency in
technology has caused a move from e-learning to the across the board utilization of mobile
technology. Mobile technology has a broad influence on individuals' everyday lives, and its
belongings are not confined to typical individuals, but rather it likewise has opened wide limits
for a significant section of mankind, incorporating students with incapacities. Henceforth, the
learning procedure has moved from a dependence on conventional learning to incorporate
present day types of learning and mobile innovations, for example, mobile learning (m-learning).
M-learning can be characterized as "any kind of learning that happens when the student is not at
a settled, foreordained area, or learning that happens when the student exploits learning openings
offered by mobile advancements" (Sanaei et al., 2014). M-learning is not limited by a particular
time and a particular area, rather it can be gotten to whenever and anyplace. It enables students to
get to learning in a helpful adaptable manner and changes it from something they need to do to
something they get a kick out of the chance to do. Cloud computing is a current technology in
the market and has put on critical weight in a wide range of territories, for example, the
administration, business, training, stimulation, and medication. Cloud computing will be
"computing cloud is an arrangement of system empowered administrations, giving adaptable,
QoS ensured, regularly customized, modest computing infrastructures on request, which could be
gotten to in a basic and unavoidable way" (Dinh et al., 2013). In 2009, cloud computing was
utilized as another computing technology to cover the constraints in customary m-learning
frameworks that have restricted instructive assets, low system transmission rate, and high
expenses. Subsequently, the idea of mobile cloud computing (MCC) rose. M-learning has turned
into the overwhelming learning mode, particularly for students with unique instructive needs.
One of the regular inabilities under the particular learning challenges umbrella is dyslexia.

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Dyslexia is a dialect based learning disability of neurological source, with deficiencies in
spelling, perusing, and composing that fluctuate among various dialect orthographies. Around
15– 20% of the worldwide populace has an etymological learning disability, and 70–80% of this
populace have dyslexia. Along these lines, suitable instructive help and general mindfulness are
required to address this class of particular learning troubles to help the group of dyslexic
understudies.
2.0 Rationale
2.1 Problem Domain
Because of their constrained size, mobile gadgets will keep on having restricted assets,
for example, processor speed, memory measure, show size and determination. These constrained
information gadgets must be tended to painstakingly when planning a mobile UI. Thus, designers
of mobile applications are confronted with a genuine test on the best way to meet these
limitations while fulfilling clients request of quick responsive mobile computing condition. Some
mobile gadgets may have distinctive info gadget, for example, receiver or a pen guide screen
toward interface with clients. Power impediments of mobile gadgets are additionally to be tended
to regarding what an application ought to do when it perceives an extremely restricted energy to
utilize.
Remote systems will keep on having restricted data transmission, high idleness and
continuous disconnection because of energy confinements, accessible range and portability. The
most basic part of these is the data transfer capacity. Subsequently, vitality limitations of mobile
gadgets will constrain the adequacy of information throughput to and from the gadget regardless
of the possibility that remote systems associations convey stable high data transfer capacity. As

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data transfer capacity builds, control utilization additionally expands which abbreviate the
battery life of mobile gadgets. In this way, information get to system must be intended for clients
to beat these constraints of transmission capacity, inactivity, and detached operation and still
fulfill client's desires.
Dyslexia is a standout amongst the most widely recognized, overwhelmingly concealed
learning challenges on the planet. Those with dyslexia are inventive, yet they frequently are
ignored in our general public. A man, regardless of whether dyslexic or not, has the privilege to
life, work, and above all, learn. For that, it is required to give steady, assistance for dyslexic
individuals in instruction, and this requires particular intercessions, and in addition
comprehension and mindfulness. Albeit dyslexic students have some normal center trouble; they
don't speak to an indistinguishable separate element with an indistinguishable profile. Past
investigations demonstrate that there are many holes in late arrangements. It is imperative to
receive an approach that looks not just at the dyslexic student's shortcomings and qualities yet
additionally at their favored learning styles. A still open inquiry is which approach might be
favored by the understudy and will help expand the understudy's inspiration in the learning
procedure. In this project plan, the primary crevices and absence of a compelling m-learning
system trying to address main problems and foundations for dyslexic understudies and increment
their consideration and inspiration have been explored and a suitable framework has been
suggested. Moreover, in this project plan, an m-learning framework is proposed to be designed
specifically for the dyslexic students in order address the critical requirement for the educational
requirements of these students. The real inspiration driving this exploration is to enhance
dyslexic students' perusing capacity, the fundamental mainstay of dialect, by utilizing the present
overwhelming learning mode and the most recent technology, m-learning in light of the cloud.

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2.2 Purpose and Justification
The main purpose of this particular project is to develop a framework for a mobile
computing platform that will help dyslexic students in their course of education. Cloud
computing with mobile innovations opens roads for dyslexic understudies to learn whenever and
anyplace. This proposed structure empowers specialists and instructors to educate and survey
dyslexic understudies. Besides, dyslexic understudies can learn material and do works out. The
most impressive element of the proposed system is adjustment to fit every understudy's profile
and favored learning style by actualizing content in various configurations (pictures, sound, and
messages) and by enabling understudies to interface with the substance through pointing on the
screen. In any case, there is much work that should be done around there. To enhance learning
process execution and individual capacities for dyslexic understudies, the creators have built up a
successful m-learning structure design in view of cloud computing technology. As a future work,
the proposed structure design can be tweaked and created as a completely mobile stage that can
be conveyed on Android or iOS operating systems. The arrangement ought to be versatile for
dyslexic understudies' needs and their social foundations.
3.0 Proposed Framework
The proposed framework for the mobile cloud platform consists of a number of layers
that are as follows.
Presentation Layer - This layer incorporates graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that give
the end users access to various administrations. The GUIs should cover the necessities of the end
users, who are educational module and showing techniques specialists, specialized curriculum
educators, dyslexic understudies, and their folks. The dyslexic understudies can take in the

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materials and do practices alloted by specialists and educators whenever and anyplace (i.e.,
inside different gatherings or a family setting) and their folks can track them while learning and
giving them some assistance when they require it. The interfaces empower the specialists to
enlist educators and assess understudies in light of their investigations. The instructors can enlist
understudies and track their learning status. These interfaces can give the learning materials
diverse media (e.g., pictures, messages, and sounds) and empower the understudies to associate
with them (i.e., pointing on the screen). Thus, the multi-tactile approach (sound and visual) can
help build up the intellectual capacities of dyslexic understudies.
Operation Layer - This layer speaks to the business rationale of the structure by deciding
how information is made, put away, showed, and changed. At the end of the day, verification and
approval operations ought to be done in the server farm since these information are put away in
the remote database. To improve the execution, the operations ought to be separated between the
mobile gadget and the cloud. For instance, showing the learning materials can be done in the
mobile gadget as opposed to in the remote server farm, which will upgrade the execution and
abatement the system stack. There is a correspondence between the mobile gadget and the cloud
so as to synchronize information.
Data Storage Layer - This is the place all the related data are put away (i.e., the learning
materials, including pictures and sounds). Putting away the mobile information in the mobile
nearby stockpiling improves organize execution in light of the fact that there is no compelling
reason to speak with the cloud for each bring occurrence. Likewise, this layer utilizes a reserve
method to give better execution by putting away information incidentally and after that sends the
information to the cloud to store. In addition, synchronization is vital to keep up every
understudy's profile utilizing remote information to look after consistency.

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4.0 Methodology
4.1 Research and System Development Methods
In order to conduct the related research for the development of the framework, an in-
depth literature review will be conducted. From the literature survey, a lot of necessary
information can be gathered that will help to develop the proposed framework. For the system
development, existing mobile cloud frameworks will be tested and analyzed so that the new
framework can be developed.
4.2 Compliance Requirement
The proposed framework should be supported by most mobile platforms so that it can be
accessed by most of the people using mobile phones. The most common mobile operating
systems are Android and iOS and hence, the proposed framework should be designed compatible
with these operating systems.
5.0 Project Plan
5.1 Project Aim
The main aim of the project is to develop a new framework for a mobile cloud platform
that is mainly aimed to aid the dyslexic students in their educational process. Accordingly, a
framework will be developed a part of the m-learning framework supported by the cloud
platform.
5.2 Project Deliverables and Schedule
The project deliverables and the schedule are shown in the following table.

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Task Name Duration Start Finish
Mobile Cloud Platform to Aid
Dyslexic Students
228 days Mon 28-08-17 Wed 11-07-18
Project Planning Phase 33 days Mon 28-08-17 Wed 11-10-17
Meeting between developers 1 day Mon 28-08-17 Mon 28-08-17
Rough Development Plan 5 days Tue 29-08-17 Mon 04-09-17
Plan Analysis 5 days Tue 05-09-17 Mon 11-09-17
Inclusion of Suitable Changes in the
Draft
5 days Tue 12-09-17 Mon 18-09-17
Meeting with supervisors 2 days Tue 19-09-17 Wed 20-09-17
Development of final project plan 5 days Thu 21-09-17 Wed 27-09-17
Development of time schedule 2 days Thu 28-09-17 Fri 29-09-17
Development of project budget 5 days Mon 02-10-17 Fri 06-10-17
Verification of the Project Plan 2 days Mon 09-10-17 Tue 10-10-17
Approval of project plan 1 day Wed 11-10-17 Wed 11-10-17
Project Initiation Phase 158 days Thu 12-10-17 Mon 21-05-18
Literature survey 10 days Thu 12-10-17 Wed 25-10-17

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Collection of data from literature 5 days Thu 26-10-17 Wed 01-11-17
Defining conclusions from the
literature survey
3 days Thu 02-11-17 Mon 06-11-17
Testing existing mobile cloud
applications
3 days Tue 07-11-17 Thu 09-11-17
Understanding the requirements of
mobile cloud platforms
2 days Fri 10-11-17 Mon 13-11-17
Understanding the needs of the
dyslexic students
15 days Tue 14-11-17 Mon 04-12-17
Preparation of a rough framework 15 days Tue 05-12-17 Mon 25-12-17
Development of the actual framework
on the cloud platform
90 days Tue 26-12-17 Mon 30-04-18
Completion of the development 15 days Tue 01-05-18 Mon 21-05-18
Project Completion Phase 29 days Tue 22-05-18 Fri 29-06-18
Preparation of Project Report 10 days Tue 22-05-18 Mon 04-06-18
Project Evaluation 5 days Tue 05-06-18 Mon 11-06-18
Testing of the prepared framework 5 days Tue 12-06-18 Mon 18-06-18

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Development of usage guidelines 5 days Tue 19-06-18 Mon 25-06-18
Approval of the Project Report 4 days Tue 26-06-18 Fri 29-06-18
Project Sign Off 8 days Mon 02-07-18 Wed 11-07-18
Closure of the Project 2 days Mon 02-07-18 Tue 03-07-18
Project Appraisal 5 days Wed 04-07-18 Tue 10-07-18
Sign off 1 day Wed 11-07-18 Wed 11-07-18
5.3 Gantt Chart
The Gantt Chart of the project is as follows.