Work In Progress - Remote Experimentation Lab For Students With Learning Disabilities

Recent advances in developing remote experimentation labs allow meeting the challenges of making them usable for learning disabled student, who experience difficulties in following the instructions to perform remote experiments. Many times, a confusion caused by the delays between initiating an action in the laboratory and the execution of that action and, as a result, the student does not know if he/she has done the experiment in the correct way. In this paper we address the problems faced by learning disabled individuals by adding new features in Automated Internet Measurement Lab (AIM-lab) at RPI including audiovisual instructions and feeds, voice/video conferencing, and text chat with fellow students. With the added new features in AIM-Lab, learning disabled students will benefit from performing the real-time experiments in a remote setting and therefore their learning process will be more effective than in traditional limited time lab sessions.