Computers Helping People with Special Needs

People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing.- HODDER – A Fully Automatic Braille Note Production System.- Maps Sonification System Using Digitiser for Visually Impaired Children.- Document Processing for Accessibility: Standards and Initiatives.- Expressing Emotions Using Animated Text Captions.- Schulbuch Barrierefrei (Accessible School Books) – Co-operation Between Publishers and Service Providers in Austria.- Modelling Accessibility Constraints.- Scientific PDF Document Reader with Simple Interface for Visually Impaired People.- English “Oblique” Listening System – Rapid Listening System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Its Evaluation.- Creating Pictures by Dialogue.- Automatic Annotation of Geographic Maps.- Towards the Use of Ontologies for Improving User Interaction for People with Special Needs.- A Model for Accessible Information Networks – Findings of the EUAIN Project.- Making the Past a Thing of the Future: Automated Workflow for the Conversion of Printed Items into Fully Structured Digital Objects Based on Common Open Metadata Standards.- Accessible Navigation of Rich Media: Exposing Structure, Content and Controls in the Mobile User Interface.- The Essential Role of Libraries Serving Persons Who Are Blind and Print Disabled in the Information Age.- People with Disabilities: Web Accessibility.- Browsing Web Based Documents Through an Alternative Tree Interface: The WebTree Browser.- Web Pages for Blind People — Generating Web-Based Presentations by Means of Dialogue.- Architecture for Personal Web Accessibility.- Dynamically Generated Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for Barrier-Free Web-Applications.- Designing a Web Page Considering the Interaction Characteristics of the Hard-of-Hearing.- Accessible Websites for People with Dementia: A Preliminary Investigation into Information Architecture.- People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Websites.- People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Web Sites.- Web Accessibility Testing: When the Method Is the Culprit.- Test Case Description Language (TCDL): Test Case Metadata for Conformance Evaluation.- The BenToWeb XHTML 1.0 Test Suite for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.- An Environment for Defining and Handling Guidelines for the Web.- Interpreting Results from Large Scale Automatic Evaluation of Web Accessibility.- Managing and Monitoring Web Site Accessibility.- Semi-automatic Evaluation of Web Accessibility with HERA 2.0.- Automatic Control of Simple Language in Web Pages.- Test Case Management Tools for Accessibility Testing.- Testing Web Navigation for All: An Agent-Based Approach.- University of Illinois Tools and Techniques for Functional Web Accessibility.- A Proposed Architecture for Large Scale Web Accessibility Assessment.- People with Disabilities: Quality of Web Accessibility.- People with Disabilities: Quality of Web Accessibility.- Towards Web Accessibility Certification: The Findings of the Support-EAM Project.- Raising the Expertise of Web Designers Through Training – The Experience of BFWD – Accessible Web Design (Barrierefreies Webdesign) in Austria.- The Role of Benchmarking in Concerted Actions to Increase Accessibility.- A Ubiquitous Social Community Portal Service for Social Networking with Convenient Accessibility.- Web Accessibility Conformity Assessment – Implementation Alternatives for a Quality Mark in Austria.- Accessible Interfaces to Empower the User.- A GOMS Model for Keyboard Navigation in Web Pages and Web Applications.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Tourism.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Tourism Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Accessibility Add-on Box Enabling Barrier-Free Tourism Information Systems (TIS).- Development of a Mobile Tourist Information System for People with Functional Limitations: User Behaviour Concept and Specification of Content Requirements.- Objective Accessibility Assessment of Public Infrastructures.- BAIM–Information for People with Reduced Mobility in the Field of Public Transport.- Accessible Information Space to Promote Accessible Tourism.- People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All.- People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All.- Teaching Web Accessibility with “Contramano” and Hera.- Introducing Media Managers to Usability and Accessibility.- Evaluating the Length of Virtual Horizontal Bar Chart Columns Augmented with Wrench and Sound Feedback.- “Assistec” – A University Course on Assistive Technologies.- People with Disabilities: Entertainment Software Accessibility.- People with Disabilities: Entertainment Software Accessibility.- Semi Automatic Generator of Tactile Video Games for Visually Impaired Children.- Making the Mainstream Accessible: What’s in a Game?.- Access Invaders: Developing a Universally Accessible Action Game.- Internet and Accessible Entertainment.- Guidelines for the Development of Accessible Computer Games.- People with Disabilities: Human Computer Interface.- A Classification, Based on ICF, for Modelling Human Computer Interaction.- Evaluation of Reaction Forces During Human Computer Interaction for Optimization and Development – A Pilot Research.- A User-Orientation Evaluation Framework: Assessing Accessibility Throughout the User Experience Lifecycle.- Basic Research of Input Support Device by Using Sympathetic Skin Response.- Unskilled Finger Key Pressing and Brain Coherence.- Customizing User Interfaces with Input Profiles.- Computerized Assessment Approach for Evaluating Computer Interaction Performance.- People with Disabilities: Assistive Homes and Environments.- People with Disabilities: Assistive Homes and Environments.- Prototyping and Evaluation of New Remote Controls for People with Visual Impairment.- Constructing Adaptive User Interface Through Semantic Descriptions.- A Proposal for a Home-Based Health Monitoring System for the Elderly or Disabled.- Helping People with ICT Device Control by Eye Gaze.- IRCS – Infra Red Code System: Access to Infra Red Codes for Ambient and Assisted Living.- The DAT Project: A Smart Home Environment for People with Disabilities.- Selection by Visualization of Topological Layouts for Adapted Living Area Design.- Wireless Communicator for Patients in Intensive Care.- People with Disabilities: Service Delivery.- The Development and Application of the Assistive Devices Application System for Clients with Disabilities.- EASTIN: A Trans-national Information Network on Assistive Technologies.- Participation in Development of Computers Helping People.- Developing Pedagogical Multimedia Resources Targeting Children with Special Educational Needs.- People with Disabilities: Education and Training.- Accessibility Issues in Two Specifications for E-Learning Tests: IMS QTI 1.2 and IMS QTI 2.0.- Informatics Teachers and Their Competences in Inclusive Education.- ECDL bf: Equal Opportunities Through Equal Access to an ECDL E-Learning Solution.- Searching Knowledge CinemaSense as a Case Study in Collaborative Production of a WWW Service in Two Universities.- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Electronic Communication Aids.- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Electronic Communication Aids.- User Evaluation of the SYNFACE Talking Head Telephone.- Towards a Service Integration Portal for Deaf People.- A Proposal of the Universal Sign Code.- Bilingual Sign Language Dictionary.- Improvements and Evaluations in Sign Animation Used as Instructions for Stomach X-Ray Examination.- Speech Technologies in a Computer-Aided Speech Therapy System.- Automatic Synthesis of Training Data for Sign Language Recognition Using HMM.- Communication Supporting System in a Classroom Environment for the Hearing Impaired.- Efficient Generation of Large Amounts of Training Data for Sign Language Recognition: A Semi-automatic Tool.- Composition Corrector – A Computer-Based Tool to Support Professional Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers.- VoxAid 2006: Telephone Communication for Hearing and/or Vocally Impaired People.- Evaluation of Effect of Delay on Sign Video Communication.- Japanese JSL Translation and Searching Display Conditions for Expressing Easy-to-Understand Sign Animation.- Design and Development of Several Mobile Communication Systems for People with Hearing Disabilities.- Captioning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People by Editing Automatic Speech Recognition in Real Time.- Improving Baby Caring with Automatic Infant Cry Recognition.- People with Cognitive Problems and the Aging Population.- People with Cognitive Problems and the Aging Population.- A Semi-autonomous Wheelchair Towards User-Centered Design.- Computer Control by Tracking Head Movements for the Disabled.- Healthcare Service with Ubiquitous Sensor Networks for the Disabled and Elderly People.- Guiding Support for ‘Way-Finding’ in Unknown Buildings: Design and Evaluation.- Mobile Computing in Medicine: Designing Mobile Questionnaires for Elderly and Partially Sighted People.- NeurOSS — Open Source Software for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.- DALMA – Location Aware Alarm System for People with Disabilities.- Usage of IT and Electronic Devices, and Its Structure, for Community-Dwelling Elderly.- A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Efficacy of Cognitive Intervention on Elderly People and on Patient’s with Alzheimer’s Disease.- Compensatory Use of Computers by Disabled Older Adults.- Computer Aids Clients with Psychiatric Disabilities in Cognitive and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs.- Ethically Aware Design of a Location System for People with Dementia.- People with Specific Learning Difficulties.- TouchStory: Towards an Interactive Learning Environment for Helping Children with Autism to Understand Narrative.- Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for Dyslexic Students.- A New Audio Testing System for the Newly Blind and the Learning Disabled to Take the National Center Test for University Admissions.- Embodied Agents in Language Learning for Children with Language Challenges.- Web Design for Dyslexics: Accessibility of Arabic Content.- Flexibility in Virtual Environments – A Fully Adjustable Virtual Classroom.- Temporal Orientation Panel for Special Education.- Developing a TriAccess Reading Environment.- A Platform for Creating Adaptive Communicators.- Do Text-to-Speech Synthesisers Pronounce Correctly? A Preliminary Study.- People Using Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC).- Investigation on Effect of Prosody in Finger Braille.- Internet Chat System for the Deaf-Blind Using Doubled Braille Display – DB4DB.- Using Iconicity to Evaluate Symbol Use.- Development of a Voice-Input Voice-Output Communication Aid (VIVOCA) for People with Severe Dysarthria.- EMU – A European Multilingual Text Prediction Software.- Design and Evaluation of a Versatile Architecture for a Multilingual Word Prediction System.- People with Motor and Mobility Impairement: Human Computer Interaction, Rehabilitation.- People with Motor and Mobility Impairment: Human Computer Interaction, Rehabilitation.- Electromyogram-Based Cursor Control System for Users with Motor Disabilities.- A Tongue Based Control for Disabled People.- An Alternative Chinese Keyboard Layout Design for Single-Digit Typists.- An Integrated Design for a Myoelectrically-Based Writing Module for a Controlled Prosthesis.- Development of a Power Assisted Handrail – Handrail Trajectory and Standing Up Motion.- Trial Usage of Rehabilitation System: Simple Driving Simulator for the Driving Skill Evaluation of People with Cerebrovascular Disease: CVD.- Eye Movement Communication Control System Based on EOG and Voluntary Eye Blink.- Eye as an Actuator.- Nonlinear Mapping of Pupil Centre Coordinates from Image Sensor to Screen for Gaze Control Systems.- Keyboard Adaptations for Children with Cerebral Palsy.- Light Spot Operated Mouse Emulator for Cervical Spinal-Cord Injured PC Users.- Design and Implementation of a Chorded On-Screen Keyboard for People with Physical Impairments.- People with Motor and Mobility Impairement: Innovative Interfaces to Wheelchairs.- People with Motor and Mobility Impairment: Innovative Multimodal Interfaces to Wheelchairs.- Accessible User Interface Framework for Severely Physically Disabled People.- MediaWheelie – A Best Practice Example for Research in Multimodal User Interfaces (MUIs).- NIBLUM: Non-Invasive Bluetooth Mouse for Wheelchair Users.- Smart Wheelchair Based on Ultrasonic Positioning System.- Scenarios of Use for a Modular Robotic Mobility Enhancement System for Profoundly Disabled Children in an Educational and Institutional Care Environment.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Human Computer Interface.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Human Computer Interface.- A Framework for Blind User Interfacing.- An Approach for Direct Manipulation by Tactile Modality for Blind Computer Users: Development of the Second Trial Production.- Making Nonaccessible Applications Accessible for Visually Impaired.- Usability Evaluation of the MOST Mobile Assistant (SlatTalker).- Non-visual Access to GUIs: Leveraging Abstract User Interfaces.- Design Guidelines for Audio–Haptic Immersive Applications for People with Visual Disabilities.- The Amodal Communication System Through an Extended Directional Input.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Access to Information and Communication.- Multimedia Browser for Internet Online Daisy Books.- Automated Book Reader for Persons with Blindness.- RoboBraille – Automated Braille Translation by Means of an E-Mail Robot.- Accessing Music Notation Through Touch and Speech.- Blind People: Access to Graphics.- Math Class: An Application for Dynamic Tactile Graphics.- Helping People with Visual Impairments Gain Access to Graphical Information Through Natural Language: The iGraph System.- Fingertip Guiding Manipulator: Haptic Graphic Display for Mental Image Creation.- Graphic Editor for Visually Impaired Users.- Exploiting SenseCam for Helping the Blind in Business Negotiations.- On the Accuracy of Tactile Displays.- HOWARD: High-Order Wavefront Aberration Regularized Deconvolution for Enhancing Graphic Displays for Visually Impaired Computer Users.- Blind People: Access to Mathematics.- “BlindMath” a New Scientific Editor for Blind Students.- Translating MathML into Nemeth Braille Code.- New Environment for Visually Disabled Students to Access Scientific Information by Combining Speech Interface and Tactile Graphics.- Canonical MathML to Simplify Conversion of MathML to Braille Mathematical Notations.- Mathematics: How and What to Speak.- SBT: A Translator from Spanish Mathematical Braille to MathML.- Braille Math Made Easy with the Tiger Formatter.- LAMBDA: A European System to Access Mathematics with Braille and Audio Synthesis.- Speech Recognition Helps Visually Impaired People Writing Mathematical Formulas.- Supporting Blind Students in Navigation and Manipulation of Mathematical Expressions: Basic Requirements and Strategies.- Scientific Diagrams Made Easy with IVEOTM.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Mobility and Orientation.- CyARM: Interactive Device for Environment Recognition and Joint Haptic Attention Using Non-visual Modality.- Marking in the Surroundings by Data-Carriers for the Visually Impaired.- A Study and Development of the Auditory Route Map Providing System for the Visually Impaired.- Identification of Acoustic Factors for Perception of Crossability Common to Blind and Sighted Pedestrians.- A Computer-Based Navigation System Tailored to the Needs of Blind People.- A Haptic Interface for an Indoor-Walk-Guide Simulator.- Computer Vision-Based Terrain Sensors for Blind Wheelchair Users.- The Blind Interactive Guide System Using RFID-Based Indoor Positioning System.- Blind and Visually Impaired People: Education and Training.- An IT Training Programme for Blind Computer Users – Presentation and Discussion of Didactic and Teletutorial Implications.- Usability for All: Towards Improving the E-Learning Experience for Visually Impaired Users.- Issues in Implementing Awareness in Collaborative Software for Blind People.- Modeling 3D Interactive Environments for Learners with Visual Disabilities.- APL: Audio Programming Language for Blind Learners.- eDiab: A System for Monitoring, Assisting and Educating People with Diabetes.