REF 12

Authors: Richard M. Castro, Joo M. Neto, Cleber L. Izidoro, L. C. C. Cavaler, Giovani B. Souza
Title: Development Of One Mechatronics Architecture To Help People Physical Disabilities With
Practical In The Teaching Activities Into Pneumatic Systems
REVIEWER 1
SCORE: 2,8/10
Summary
The authors present a system for operating a valve by using voice recognition provided by the voice
recognition module in an Arduino board.
Comments to authors
It is mainly a descriptive work, but with the lack of the research part that is needed in this type of papers.
The title is not very clear. It has to be clarified.
There is no literature review.
In the validation results section, the tests conducted should be explained in detail. The evaluation
questions were applied to people without mobility limitation. There should be some evaluation from
people with disabilities.
The final conclusions can not be obtained from the data presented.
Important: The paper should be revised by a native English-speaking person.

REVIEWER 2
SCORE: 3,2/10
In this work, the authors present a prototype of a voice control system through the platform open source
called ARDUINO, which promotes the interaction with the pneumatic circuits for people with
disabilities.

Content: clarity of objective, technical correctness, scope covered, conclusions drawn as

supported by the data presented, proper literature survey, impact on teaching and learning,
contribution to engineering education, etc.

The objectives of the paper are not very clear in contrast with the topic of this journal. The authors need
to explain the contribution of the paper to engineering education.

Originality: presence of new ideas or innovative contribution.

As noted above, a better explanation of the contributions of the paper is necessary. It should pay
particular attention to the contributions from a more specific vision of software engineering.

Structure: logical layout, proper use and adequate number of figures, diagrams, tables, etc.

The structure of the paper must be reformed. It should include a more detailed Introduction, a
description of the Material & Methods and a more detail conclusions.

Quality of text: being concise, correct grammar and spelling, clarity of expression, consistency,
readability, citation appropriate references, etc.

Finally, clarity of the paper could be greatly improved by attention to grammar and scholarly style
throughout.

REVIEWER 3
This work describes a prototype of a voice control system which promotes the interaction with the
pneumatic circuits for people with disabilities. It is an interesting work, however it seems to be more a
conference paper than a journal paper. There is not a comparative with other works similar to this and the
bibliographic review is quite poor. Moreover this paper has sections copied from other of the authors
paper called Automation to Assistance with Disabilities of Motion Activities in the Laboratory
Pneumatic Systems presented at the ICBL2013 International Conference on Interactive Computer
aided Blended Learning, so in my opinion it should be rejected.
SCORE: 1,4/10