Dyslexia is a language disorder that, in Serbia, affects as many as 95,000 children according to statistical estimates. This disorder has a profound impact on the reading ability of children and adults, which can negatively affect school, emotional and social aspects of life. As dyslexia can manifest itself in different ways, an individual approach allows for the best results. Changing the text presentation method is one approach that can greatly alleviate dyslexic reading difficulties.

Within the colorDCD project, an adaptive tool will be developed to help children with dyslexia using digital coloured overlays and eye tracking. colorDCD leverages the knowledge of dyslexia experts, engineers, and psychologists to ensure that software tool development is conducted considering the necessary different points of view. The proposed system aims to provide an objective and quantitative assessment of reading difficulties based on eye-tracking data, with the goal of automating personalised reading assistance. As part of the project, experimental recordings of eye movements while reading texts with different coloured overlays will be carried out. Based on the conducted recordings and feedback, a system will be developed with different colored overlays and eye movement tracking measures that will serve as an automated reading assessment.

The project is financed within the Proof of Concept program of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, #14948, supported by the SAIGE project of the World Bank.