The poster presentation was about a small scale project using digital SmartPens with 3 dyslexic students and 3 students with English as a second language at Bath Spa University.

The digital SmartPen digitally records audio as it writes on a special dot-matrix paper. In a lecture the students can record the lecturer’s voice whilst making notes and doing diagrams and then play this back later. The pen can record for 200 hours and the data can then be transferred to a computer.

In the study the findings indicated that digital SmartPens do assist study both in and outside class for both groups of students. This was a valuable intervention for these students and is a lower-cost alternative to a note-taker.