Computers Helping People with Special Needs

We Are All Blind: Cognetics and the Designing of Interfaces for Accessibility.- We Are All Blind: Cognetics and the Designing of Interfaces for Accessibility.- From the Human Interface to the Humane Interface.- The Design Question of Development of Multimedia Educational Software for Aphasia Patients.- Multimedia Programs for Children with Hearing Difficulties.- Multimedia and Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of Autistic Children.- Mobile Phone Based User Interface Concept for Health Data Acquisition at Home.- Multi-parameter Data Acquisition on Interface Devices for the Development of Adaptive Input Systems.- Design for All: Awareness, Guidelines and Policy.- How Governments Can Use Technology to Promote Employment of People with Disabilities.- Influence of Accessibility Related Activities on the Usability of Business Software.- Data Entry in Application-Independent Voice Interfaces.- Designing User Interfaces Tailored to the Current User’s Requirements in Real Time.- Evaluating Accessibility of Public Information Kiosks.- Design for All in IST – Co-operation in Europe.- European Co-operation Activities Promoting Design for All in Information Society Technologies.- A Special Design Approach for Special People.- Accessibility from Scratch: How an Open Focus Contributes to Inclusive Design.- Design for All: Experience-Based Strategies for User Involvement in IST Research Projects.- IDCnet: Inclusive Design Curriculum Network – First Results.- Personalization of Interactive Systems.- Personalization of Interactive Systems.- Learning from Internet Requirements of People with Communication Needs.- IPCA: Adaptive Interfaces Based upon Biofeedback Sensors.- Adaptation of Multimedia Browsing Techniques.- Adapting Presentation and Interaction with XML Documents to User Preferences.- e-Learning and Accessibility.- Living, Teaching and Learning at Any Time and at Any Place. e-Learning – Opportunities and Barriers for Visually Impaired Students.- Accessibility for e-Learning Environments.- ECDL-PD: International Co-operation to Keep the Syllabus and MQTB Open for Everybody.- Essential Competencies of Special Educator in Integrating Assistive Technology into the Curriculum.- Web Adaptation of Learning Objects for Special Access WALOSA.- Postgraduate Course on Accessible Web Design.- Cognitive Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA) in Children with Learning Disabilities.- A Concept Map_Based Adaptive Tutoring System Supporting Learning Diagnosis for Students with Learning Disability.- Tutor Informatico: Increasing the Selfteaching in Down Syndrome People.- The Effect of Assistive Technology on Educational Costs: Two Case Studies.- Making Music Accessible.- Making Music Accessible.- The Design of Spoken Music Web Browser for Teaching Learning-Disabled Children: A Chevé System Approach to Music Notation.- DaCapo, a Project on Transforming Ink Printed to Braille Notes Semi-automatically.- Using SVG and a Force Feedback Mouse to Enable Blind People to Access “Graphical” Web Based Documents.- Modified Stave Notation – An Approach to Making Stave Notation More Accessible to Users Who Are Partially Sighted.- Accessible Games and Entertainment.- Entertaining Software for Young Persons with Disabilities.- The TiM Project: Overview of Results.- 3D Shooting Games, Multimodal Games, Sound Games and More Working Examples of the Future of Games for the Blind.- Choosing Methods for Prototype Testing of Inclusive Computer Games.- Accessible Tourism.- It’s Time to Make eTourism Accessible.- Tourism Information Systems Promoting Barrier-Free Tourism for People with Disabilities.- AccesSights – A Multimodal Location-Aware Mobile Tourist Information System.- Accessibility and the Next Generation of Web Development Tools.- Accessibility and the Next Generation of Web Development Tools.- Preferences of People with Disabilities to Improve Information Presentation and Information Retrieval Inside Internet Services – Results of a User Study.- Web Accessibility through Adaptation.- imergo: Supporting Accessibility and Web Standards to Meet the Needs of the Industry via Process-Oriented Software Tools.- Evaluation Methodology and Quality Mark for Web Accessibility.- A Cost-Benefit Approach for Accessible Web Presence.- The Use of Current Content Management Systems for Accessibility.- Accessing Documents via Audio: An Extensible Transcoder for HTML to VoiceXML Conversion.- Listener-Controlled Dynamic Navigation of VoiceXML Documents.- Toward User-Centered, Scenario-Based Planning and Evaluation Tools.- Discovering Structure of Web Pages for Non-visual Navigation: Binding Text to Forms.- Elderly and Disabled People: Therapy and Care.- Virtual Reality Based Therapy Application for Developmental Disordered Children.- Real-Time Health-Monitoring Network for Disabled and Elderly People.- A Computer-Based Self-health Monitoring System for the Elderly Living in a Low Income Housing Environment.- Investigations to Develop a Fully Adjustable Intelligent Toilet for Supporting Old People and Persons with Disabilities – The Friendly Rest Room (FRR) Project.- Tele-surveillance System for Patient at Home: The MEDIVILLE System.- Classification of Infant Crying to Identify Pathologies in Recently Born Babies with ANFIS.- Improving Quality of Life and Well-Being for Children and the Elderly through Vibroacoustic Sound Therapy.- Multimodal Control Centre for Handicapped People.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Orientation and Mobility.- proXimity: Ad-Hoc Networks for Enhanced Mobility.- A Context-Aware Locomotion Assistance Device for the Blind.- Navigator – A Talking GPS Receiver for the Blind.- Dynamic Lighting Sign System for Way-Finding by People with Low Vision.- Visual System to Help Blind People to Cross the Street.- CyARM – Interactive Device for Environment Recognition Using a Non-visual Modality.- Walking Support Using Compact Terminals with Infrared Audio Communication.- The Development of Virtual 3D Acoustic Environment for Training ‘Perception of Crossability’.- Blind People: Braille Interfaces.- Six-In – Braille Input from a QWERTY Keyboard.- A Pair of Wireless Braille-Based Chording Gloves.- OBOE: Oboe-Like Braille Interface for Outdoor Environment.- Java-Powered Braille Slate Talker.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Access to Documents and Information.- Towards an Integrated Publishing Chain for Accessible Multimodal Documents.- Presenting UML Software Engineering Diagrams to Blind People.- Linear Searching in a Non-linear Environment: The Information Seeking Behaviour of Visually Impaired People on the World Wide Web.- Text Comprehension by Blind People Using Speech Synthesis Systems.- Access to Information at Your Own Choice by the Aid of Digital Talking Books.- Talking Linux for the Blind – A CD Distribution with Speech.- Accessing Web Based Documents through a Tree Structural Interface.- Multimedia Medicine Consultant for Visually Impaired People.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Education and Training.- Computer for Persons with Visually Impairment: A Door to Education, Information and Employment.- Usability of Educational Software for Visual Impairment: A Question of Viewpoint.- Use of Bar Code and RFID for the Visually Impaired in Educational Environment.- Virtual Disability: Simulations as an Aid to Lecturers’ Understanding of Disability.- Multimedia Software Training Tool (MSTT) for Persons with Visual and Mobile Impairments in Four Languages.- Designing New Technology Based Services to Support Visually Impaired Computer Workers (VICWs).- Design and Use of Pseudo-electronic Whiteboard for Low-Vision Education.- Blind People: Access to Mathematics.- Mathematics for Blind People.- The Architecture of a Comprehensive Equation Browser for the Print Impaired.- Translating between Formats for Mathematics: Current Approach and an Agenda for Future Developments.- Utilizing Scalable Vector Graphics in the Instruction of Mathematics to the Print Impaired Student.- Cognitive Analysis of Equation Reading: Application to the Development of the Math Genie.- Automatic Conversions of Mathematical Braille: A Survey of Main Difficulties in Different Languages.- Multi-modal Mathematics: Conveying Math Using Synthetic Speech and Speech Recognition.- An Integrated OCR Software for Mathematical Documents and Its Output with Accessibility.- Mathematical Working Environment for the Blind Motivation and Basic Ideas.- Towards a Universal Maths Conversion Library.- math2braille: Opening Access to Mathematics.- Enhancing the Accessibility of Mathematics for Blind People: The AudioMath Project.- Handwriting Input System of Graphs for Barrier-Free Mathematical Communications.- Blind People: Access to Graphics and Haptic Interfaces.- Three Dimensionally Perceived Planar Tactile Illusion Device and Method.- Touching Geometry for Blind Pupils.- An Indicating, Leading Manipulator as a Good Hand at Teaching Strokes: A Mental-Image-Creation Support System.- The Bigger Picture: Automated Production Tools for Tactile Graphics.- Two Dimension Interactive Voice Browser for the Visually Impaired.- Exploring Scalable Vector Graphics for Visually Impaired Users.- Communication System for the Blind Using Tactile Displays and Ultrasonic Pens – MIMIZU.- Directly Accessible Mainstream Graphical Information.- Simple Pattern Creation Using a Pen Input Guide and Sound Localization for the Visually Impaired.- An Approach for Direct Manipulation by Tactile Modality for Blind Computer Users: Principle and Practice of Detecting Information Generated by Touch Action.- Mobility Impaired People: HCI.- Remote Eye Gaze Tracking System as a Computer Interface for Persons with Severe Motor Disability.- Controlling a PC by Eye Movements: The MEMREC Project.- HeadControl+: A Multi-modal Input Device.- Accessibility through Standard Low Cost Pointing Devices.- Optimisation of the Selection Set Features for Scanning Text Input.- FastScanner: An Accessibility Tool for Motor Impaired Users.- A Real-Time Voice Controlled Human Computer Interface to Help Persons with Motor Disability.- First User Test Results with the Predictive Typing System FASTY.- Mobility Impaired People: Rehabilitaiton and Health Care.- Movement Variability and Speed of Performance Using a Head-Operated Device and Expanded Membrane Cursor Keys.- An Examination about Walking Posture on Gait Training System for Computer-Aided Rehabilitation.- Optimizing Menu Selection Process for Single-Switch Manipulation.- Designing an Evaluation Method for Computer Accessibility for People with Severe Disabilities.- Computerized Assessment Tool for Mouse Operating Proficiency.- Applications of Computer Access Approach to Persons with Quadriplegics.- Computer Access for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.- An Assessment into Touch Screen Input Devices for Cervical Spinal Injured Computer Users.- Home-Use Upper Limb Rehabilitation Device for Cervical Spinal Cord Injured Patients.- Smart Environments for All.- Smart Environments for All.- The Assistive Home – More than Just Another Approach to Independent Living?.- Technology Usage for Dependant People: Towards the Right Balance between User Needs and Technology.- Coupling Context Awareness and Multimodality in Smart Homes Concept.- On the Design of Ambient Intelligent Systems in the Context of Assistive Technologies.- PACS: Communication and Environment Control System for Disabled.- Performance Analysis of User Interface for the Disabled in Real-Time Ubiquitous Information Network.- The HM2PH Project: A Database to Help Prescription of Assistive Technologies.- Networking and Communication in Smart Home for People with Disabilities.- SmartX – Enabling Traditional Environmental Control to Use Standard HCI.- Indoors Pervasive Computing and Outdoors Mobile Computing for Cognitive Assistance and Telemonitoring.- People with Cognitive, Speech and Learning Impairment: Autism.- Computer Use for People with Learning Difficulties: Basic Needs.- Using ‘Ambient Intelligence’ for Compensating Intellectual Difficulties of People with Severe Learning Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Disorders.- Assessing B.A.Bar Device as a Tool for Supporting Labour Integration of a Severely Affected Person with Autism Who Carries Out Classifying Tasks.- People with Cognitive, Speech and Learning Impairment: Software Accessibility.- An Adaptive and Predictive Environment to Support Augmentative and Alternative Communication.- Intelligent Model for Rating Cognitive Capability for Computer Access of People with Disabilities.- Automatic Modification of Text for People with Learning Disabilities Using Internet Services.- Soft Keyboard for the Disabled.- A Talking Word Processor and Web Browser.- Sibyl: AAC System Using NLP Techniques.- People with Cognitive, Speech and Learning Impairment: Education and Training.- Mobile Devices Converted into a Speaking Communication Aid.- SOCRATES: Barrier Free Communities of Aphasics on the Internet.- Evaluations of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Training Programme for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.- Effect of Dynamic Features on Diagnostic Testing for Dyspraxia.- Feature Selection Optimisation in an Automated Diagnostic Cancellation Task.- Minus-Two: Multimedia, Sound Spatialization and 3D Representation for Cognitively Impaired Children.- Neuropsychological Function for Accessibility of Computer Program for People with Mental Retardation.- Deaf People: Sign Language and Digital Media.- Accessible Digital Media and Sign Language.- Integration of Signage Information into the Web Environment.- Progress in Automated Computer Recognition of Sign Language.- Creating Sign Language Web Pages.- Sign Language Communication Support at the Class for Hearing Impaired Using a Control Camera.- CD-ROM on Austrian Sign Language: Course OEGS 1, Lesson 1–6.- Developing an e-Learning Platform for the Greek Sign Language.- Design of Computer Animation of Japanese Sign Language for Hearing-Impaired People in Stomach X-Ray Inspection.- Basic Study of a Communication Device for the Deaf-Blind Using a Finger and a Palm – Measurement of Finger Speed and Pressure.- A Tactile Display System in the Use of a PC for Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind.- Deaf and Hearing Impaired People: ICT and AT.- Approaches to Using a Wireless Mobile Terminal to Help Severely Hearing Impaired People.- A Preparatory Study for Designing Web-Based Educational Materials for the Hearing-Impaired.- FLIPPS: Fingertip Stimulation for Improved Speechreading.- A New Mobile Text Telephony System Based on GPRS Communications.- Head Mounted Display as a Information Guarantee Device for Hearing Impaired Students.- Facial and Head Movements of a Sign Interpreter and Their Application to Japanese Sign Animation.- SYNFACE – A Talking Head Telephone for the Hearing-Impaired.