An Artificial Intelligence-Based Mobile Application for Early Detection of Dyslexia Using Recurrent Neural Network
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난독증 진단 인공지능 딥 러닝 게이트드 재발 단말기 모바일 애플리케이션

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Rahman, M. F., Darni, R., Novaliendry, D., & Budayawan, K. (2026). An Artificial Intelligence-Based Mobile Application for Early Detection of Dyslexia Using Recurrent Neural Network. Journal of Hypermedia & Technology-Enhanced Learning, 4(1), 49–67. https://doi.org/10.58536/j-hytel.217
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난독증은 지능이 정상임에도 불구하고 아동의 읽기 및 쓰기 능력에 상당한 영향을 미치는 신경발달성 학습 장애이며, 조기 발견이 지연될 경우 장기적인 학업적 및 심리사회적 결과를 초래할 수 있습니다. 기존의 난독증 선별 방법은 전문가 주도의 평가에 크게 의존하고 있는데, 이는 시간이 많이 소요되고 주관적이며 비임상 환경에서 확대 적용하기 어렵습니다. 최근 연구에서 난독증 탐지를 위한 인공지능(AI) 접근법을 탐구해 왔으나, 상당수는 단일 모달리티 데이터, 오프라인 분석 또는 비모바일 구현에 국한되어 있어 조기 선별 검사에 대한 실질적인 적용성이 제한적이다. 본 연구는 재귀 신경망(RNN) 아키텍처, 특히 게이트 재귀 유닛(GRU)을 통해 순차적 텍스트 및 음성 데이터를 활용하여 난독증 조기 탐지를 위한 AI 기반 모바일 애플리케이션을 개발하는 것을 목표로 하였다. 본 연구에서는 요구 사항 분석, 시스템 설계, GRU 모델 훈련, Flutter를 활용한 모바일 애플리케이션 개발, RESTful 백엔드 및 MySQL 데이터베이스와의 시스템 통합을 포괄하는 연구 개발(R&D) 방법론을 채택했다. GRU 모델은 난독증 관련 읽기 행동과 연관된 시간적 패턴을 포착하기 위해 전처리된 읽기 텍스트 및 음성 녹음 자료를 바탕으로 훈련되었다. 실험 결과에 따르면, 제안된 모델은 난독증 관련 패턴을 식별하는 데 있어 신뢰할 수 있는 분류 성능을 보였으며, 모바일 애플리케이션은 실시간 선별 검사 결과를 성공적으로 제공함과 동시에 종단적 평가 기록을 유지했다. 이번 연구 결과는 경량 순차적 딥러닝 모델을 모바일 플랫폼에 통합하는 것이 난독증 조기 선별을 위한 확장 가능하고 접근성이 높은 솔루션을 제공하며, 임상 환경 밖에서도 학부모와 교육자가 독립적으로 활용할 수 있음을 입증한다.

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Muhamad Fathur Rahman: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Data Curation, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. Resmi Darni: Supervision, Resources, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing. Dony Novaliendry: Validation, Writing – Review & Editing. Khairi Budayawan: Supervision, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing. All authors have read and approved the final version of this manuscript.

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