دانلود کتاب Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments: AAATE 2009, Volume 25 Assistive Technology Research Series

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Title page......Page 2
Preface......Page 6
Conference Organisation......Page 8
Local Organising Committee......Page 9
Scientific Committee......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Technology for Motor Limitations 1......Page 28
AAC and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Literature Review and Aspects of Quality of Life and Service Delivery......Page 30
A Systematized Approach to Provide Assistive Technology (AT) for Augmentative Communication, to Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)......Page 35
Selecting AAC Devices for Persons with ALS Taking into Consideration the Disease Progression......Page 39
Assistive Robotics in Robotics for Healthcare, Roadmap Study for the EC......Page 45
A Proposal for User Needs' Extractive Methodology in Development of Assistive Technology – Based on a Variety of Disabilities......Page 50
Technology for Motor Limitations 2......Page 56
Development of Assistive Functions for Joysticks of Electric Wheelchairs......Page 58
EMG Signal Controlled Pneumatic Gripper for Mouthsticks......Page 63
Evaluation of Failsafe Wheelchair Brake for Users with Memory Loss in Clinical Use: Short-Term Evaluation of Function......Page 68
Mobility-Related Participation Outcomes of Rollator Interventions......Page 74
Supporting Inclusion and Independence: Compliant Seating for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Whole Body Extensor Spasms......Page 79
Information Support to Mobility......Page 84
Study on the Veering Tendency of Persons with Visual Impairment......Page 86
Mobility Aid in Urban Scenarios for Visually Impaired People......Page 91
Staying in the Crosswalk: A System for Guiding Visually Impaired Pedestrians at Traffic Intersections......Page 96
Designing a Location Based Service for Visually Impaired People: MWA Guide......Page 101
A Step Forward Towards Increasing the Mobility and Participation of People with Disabilities Utilizing Satellite Navigation Technology Applications......Page 106
Healthcare and Rehabilitation......Page 112
Health @ Home: A New Homecare Model for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure......Page 114
Telecare Service Deployment – Case Study......Page 119
Effects of Lower Limb Prosthesis on Daily Living – A Systematic Review......Page 126
Technology Trends: A Focus on Sensors and Smart Materials in the Domain of Care Applications......Page 131
High Spatial Resolution Dry-Electrode Surface EMG Acquisition System......Page 136
Towards a New Concept to the Neurological Recovery for Knee Stabilization After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Based on Surface Electrical Stimulation......Page 141
Human Computer Interfaces for People with Motor Limitations......Page 146
The NADIA Terminal User Interface for People with Motor Disabilities......Page 148
Automatically Adjusting Pointing Device Settings Enhances User Double-Click Performance......Page 154
A Study of Two-Inputs Scanning Methods to Enhance the Communication Rate......Page 159
Increasing Software Keyboard Key by Recycling Needless Ones......Page 165
Evaluation of Unambiguous Virtual Keyboards with Character Prediction......Page 171
Robotics......Page 178
Affective Robotics for Assisting Elderly People......Page 180
Developing the IROMEC Robot for Play: Results from the First Experimental Trials......Page 186
Robots as Social Mediators: Field Trials with Children with Special Needs......Page 192
QuoVADis Project: Functionalities of the Robot and Data-Processing Architecture......Page 197
Methodological Framework to Set Up Educational and Therapy Sessions with Robotic Technology: The IROMEC Proposal......Page 203
Brain Computer Interfaces......Page 210
BCI Applications for People with Disabilities: Defining User Needs and User Requirements......Page 212
Efficient Algorithms for a Brain Computer Interface: Performance Studies......Page 217
Implementation of Error Detection into the Graz-Brain-Computer Interface, the Interaction Error Potential......Page 222
Controlling Domotic Appliances via a "Dynamical" P300-Based Brain Computer Interface......Page 227
Technology for Sensory and Cognitive Limitations......Page 232
Accessibility for the Blind: Rendering the Layout of the Web Page for a Tactile Experience......Page 234
odt2dtbook: OpenOffice.org Save-as-Daisy Extension......Page 239
Visualization of Personal Memory for Cognitive Support......Page 244
How Assistive Technology Support Cognitive Disability, Secure Active Living for Persons with Dementia and Enhance New Interfaces Between Formal and Informal Care in the Area of Dementia......Page 249
e-Services......Page 256
Information Services on Public Transport for People with Reduced Mobility – A Survey Among Public Transport Providers......Page 258
A Model of Peer to Peer Multi-Agent Information System to Support the Impaired Users Mobility......Page 263
IT Support at Home – What Do You Do when the Computer Is on the Blink?......Page 269
Miming Navigation Pages with a Personal Remote Control Device for the Aged......Page 274
The Assistive Technology Internet Café......Page 279
Service Delivery......Page 284
An On-Line System Supporting the Provision of Assistive Technology Products to Individual Users Through the National Health Service......Page 286
The ICT Assistive Devices Register: An Instrument to Support Appropriate Provision of Assistive Technology......Page 291
Benefits of an On-Line Library of Electronic Assistive Technology on AT Services in Ireland......Page 296
Plain Language Search......Page 301
Designing an Internet Search Engine on Disability Issues: Results of a Survey of the Users' Information Needs......Page 307
Ambient Assisted Living 1......Page 312
Mainstream Services for Elderly and Disabled People at Home......Page 314
Systematic Review: Activity Outcomes of Environmental Control Systems and Smart Home Technology......Page 319
The Meaning of Living with or without Environmental Control Systems for People with Tetraplegia: An Irish Focus Group Study......Page 324
Wireless and 1-Wire Solutions for Inclusive Home Environment of Seniors......Page 330
Internet-Based Home Monitoring and Control......Page 336
Ambient Assisted Living 2......Page 342
A Training Apartment with a Set of Electronic Memory Aids for Patients with Memory Difficulties After Acquired Brain Injury......Page 344
Integrating Fall Detection into a Home Control System......Page 349
A Video-Based Fall Detector Sensor Well Suited for a Data-Fusion Approach......Page 354
Autonomamente: A Multimodal Domotic Application and a Social Network to Support Autonomous Living of Persons with Cognitive Disabilities......Page 359
Case Study on a Pilot Project for Home Care Monitoring Health Status of Elderly: Lessons Learnt and Going to Scale......Page 365
Visual Tools to Select a Layout for an Adapted Living Area......Page 372
Aging Aspects......Page 378
User-Centred Physiological Emotion Detection for Assistive Technology......Page 380
Digital and Social Inclusion from Innovative D-TV Integration......Page 385
Development by a Field-Based Method of a Daily-Plan Indicator for Persons with Dementia......Page 391
Support in Everyday Activities with a Home-Based Electronic Memory Aid for Persons with Memory Impairments......Page 396
SHARE-it Scenarios......Page 401
Web for e-Inclusion......Page 408
Web Accessibility and Older People......Page 410
Is Flash Really Accessible when Interacting Through Screen Readers?......Page 415
A Design-for-All Approach Towards Multimodal Accessibility of Mathematics......Page 420
Navigation Assistant for Blind People to Explore Chemical Formulas......Page 425
Assessment 1......Page 430
Design and Outcome Measures in Trials of Assistive Technologies for People with Dementia: Methodological and Ethical Challenges......Page 432
An Objective Means of Establishing Optimal Information Transmission Rates in Individuals with Disability......Page 438
Development and Reliability Testing of the Nordic Housing Enabler – An Instrument for Accessibility Assessment of the Physical Housing......Page 443
The Partial Concurrent Thinking Aloud: A New Usability Evaluation Technique for Blind Users......Page 448
Users' Perceptions of Environmental Control Systems......Page 453
Assessment 2......Page 460
Assessment of an Assistive Technology that Allows Driving a Car with Low Vision......Page 462
Use and Prescription of Powered Electronic Wheelchairs for Patients with Severe Acquired Brain Injury......Page 467
Analysis of Prosthetic Gait on Stairs, Slopes and Uneven Terrain......Page 472
Analysis of Ground Reaction Forces in Walker Assisted Gait......Page 477
Evaluation of Body Vibrations During Manual Wheelchair Running over Sidewalk Surfaces and Curbs – Standardization and Promotion of New Curbs with Universal Design......Page 482
Aspects of Visual Limitations......Page 488
Study About the Walk Supporting System Using LED for People with Low Vision at Night......Page 490
Study on Illuminance Dependency of Color Identification Characteristics for Persons with Low Visual Capacity......Page 495
Study on Background Illuminance and Color Conspicuity Characteristics for Persons with Low Visual Capacity......Page 500
A Study on Sensations of Walking-Distance and Orientation of the Blind......Page 505
Interface Challenges for the Visually Impaired......Page 510
Aspects of Hearing Limitations......Page 518
Evaluation of the Emergent Information Reading Strategy in Bilingual Presentation of Japanese Sign Language and Japanese Text......Page 520
A New Evaluation Approach for Sign Language Machine Translation......Page 525
Universal Combined System: Speech Recognition, Emotion Recognition and Talking Head for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People......Page 530
An Analysis of the Phonological Database of Japanese Sign Language......Page 536
Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students......Page 537
Attitudes of Children with Hearing Impairment Towards Assistive Technology in Pakistan......Page 542
Design for All......Page 548
Managing the Process of Design-for-All......Page 550
CMF4ALL: A Content Management Framework for ALL......Page 555
Promoting "Design for All" in the (e-)Tourism Industry: An Approach Towards Inclusion......Page 560
Organizing Research in Web 2.0 Era......Page 565
To Know and to Conserve the Heritage, Matching Rights and Needs! Contribution of New Pavements......Page 571
Matching Users and Technology......Page 576
Designing Reasonable Accommodation of the Workplace: A New Methodology Based on Risk Assessment......Page 578
Design of a MPT Based Instrument Supporting the Quality of Procurement of Assistive Technology......Page 584
The Adaptation and Use of the Italian Version of the Matching Assistive Technology and CHild (MATCH) Measure......Page 589
Designs on the Future: Linking Front Line AT Service Delivery with Product Design......Page 594
Approaches to Clinical Decision-Making in Assessment for Electronic Assistive Technology......Page 599
Users and Technology......Page 604
Increased User Involvement Through Free Choice of Assistive Technology......Page 606
Gathering and Applying Evidence in Computer Access Services......Page 611
User Perspective on Assistive Technology. A Qualitative Analysis of 55 Letters from Citizens Applying for Assistive Technology......Page 616
The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Outside of School for Boys and Girls with Motor Disabilities......Page 622
Evaluating the Long Term Outcomes of an Assistive Technology Training Course to Inform Service Development......Page 627
ICT for Education and Training......Page 632
MLG – Multimedia On-Line Lesson Generator......Page 634
Challenging Attitudes and Promoting Inclusion of High Tech Assistive Technology Users in Further Education......Page 640
Assistive Technology Devices in Educational Settings: Students' Perspective......Page 646
Music as an Enabler for Social Inclusion and Provision – The UMSIC Approach......Page 649
Distance Education and Training on Accessible Web Design......Page 655
Education and Inclusion......Page 660
Inclusive Education and ICT: Reflecting on Tools and Methods......Page 662
Using ICT to Enable Inclusive Teaching Practices in Higher Education......Page 667
How Schools View and Plan Technology for Inclusion: Results of a Project of the Italian Ministry of Education......Page 673
Creating an Inclusive Synergy Between User Focused and Environmental Approaches in Further and Higher Education......Page 679
Visual Impaired Students in the Portuguese Higher Education......Page 685
Entertainment and Education in Rehabilitation......Page 690
New Video Games Generations: Only Games or an Opportunity for Assistive Technology?......Page 692
Combining Location Based Services with Games Based Learning Approaches in Assistive Technology......Page 698
Multimodal Accessible Games for Visually Impaired Players......Page 704
Modeling Visitor-Exhibit Interaction at Dynamic Zoo and Aquarium Exhibits for Developing Real-Time Interpretation......Page 709
Accessible Game Console Interface for Upper Limbs and Mild Cognitive Impaired People......Page 715
e-Inclusion......Page 722
"The Accessibility Agency" – Promoting the Development of Inclusive Environments by Mainstreaming Accessibility Issues......Page 724
Assistive Technology or Mainstreaming of ICT? Yes, Please!......Page 730
How Many Positive Results on Inclusion Do We Need to Make Changes?......Page 735
Wireless Portable Computer Systems and Technologies for the Disabled and the Aged Towards an Accessible, Inclusive and Intelligent Metropolis of the Future: The South African Context......Page 740
Exploring the Use of Assistive Technology for Developing Countries and Minority Languages......Page 746
Turning Back Time for Inclusion Today as Well as Tomorrow......Page 750
Technology Transfer and Market......Page 756
Analysis of the AT ICT Industry in Europe......Page 758
Delivering the D in R&D: Increasing Product Outcomes from R&D Projects......Page 763
Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer: Making R&D Matter to Stakeholders......Page 769
An Innovations Broker that Increases Availability of Assistive Technology......Page 775
Modelling Assistive Technology Systems Using Coloured Petri Nets......Page 781
Economic Aspects......Page 786
A Macro Economic Cost-Benefit Model for the Assessment of Assistive Technology Future Development......Page 788
Assistive Technology Transfer to New EU Countries Market and Users......Page 794
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Methodological Consequences for Economic Analyses......Page 799
Inclusion – What Does It Cost and How Do We Measure This?......Page 804
A Qualitative Approach to Assess Cost-Outcomes in Interventions for Promoting Independent Living......Page 810
User Needs Standards......Page 816
Participation of Users with Disabilities in Standardization......Page 818
Educational Approach for User Training in Standardisation......Page 823
USEM Trainees at Work – First Experiences......Page 829
STAND4ALL: Training of Stakeholders on Consultations on Standardisation......Page 834
The "DfA@eInclusion" Project......Page 840
Design for All for eInclusion......Page 842
The "Raising the Floor" Project......Page 848
Raising the Floor: A Collaborative Open-Source Approach to Providing Access Languages and to All Economic Levels......Page 850
Web Accessibility Initiative......Page 856
Accelerating Web Accessibility: Migrating to WCAG 2.0 and Ensuring Vigilance over Emerging Technologies......Page 858
Best Practice in Education and Training......Page 862
Design for All @ eInclusion: Best Practice in Education and Training......Page 864
Universal Design in Third Level Design Teaching in Ireland......Page 869
Posters......Page 874
A Mobile Phone Wayfinding System for Visually Impaired Users......Page 876
A Study on Recognition of Tactile Walking Surface Indicators by White Cane......Page 877
Ability to Manage Everyday Technology: A Comparison of People with Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment and Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment......Page 878
Accessible 3D Game for Visually Impaired Students......Page 879
Adapting Linking Rules to the International Classification of Functioning as a Method for Representing Assistive Technology Knowledge......Page 880
An Accessible Web Searching: An On-Going Research Project......Page 881
Avatars@Home......Page 882
Clinical Experiences on Computer Access by Eye Gaze for Persons with Severe Motor Disabilities and Communication Difficulties......Page 883
Development of Digital Glass System to Support Tunnel Vision Person......Page 884
Does Electronic Assistive Technology Support Everyday Activities for People with Early Alzheimer's Disease?......Page 885
Enhancing Accessibility in Mobile Navigational Services......Page 886
Evaluation and Assistance for Disabled Persons Navigation with a Low Cost Electric Wheelchair Simulator......Page 887
Evaluation on Friction and Vibration for Sidewalk Environment – Toward Accessible and Safety Sidewalk for Pedestrians......Page 888
Eye Movements in Bilingual Emergency Message Reading for Deaf People......Page 889
Image Tool for AAC Materials......Page 890
Information and Communication Technology as a Tool to Increase Accessibility to Care......Page 891
ITSE-Assessment Model – A Tool for Evaluating User Satisfaction with Assistive Technology......Page 892
Japanese Sign Language Proficiency Test and its Electrical Expansion......Page 893
Moving Forward: AT in Egypt......Page 894
Disability and AT-ICT in Italy, France and Holland......Page 895
Note Taking System Based upon "Quantity Rather than Quality" Concept......Page 896
One Support and Care Getting Better Quality of His Life......Page 897
Optimized Interaction with Word Prediction List......Page 898
Portable System for Monitoring A.D.L., Including A.T. Use, in Urban Environments......Page 899
Sign Word Description Method for JSL Dictionaries over Internet......Page 900
Social Activity Made Possible Through Technology: Multi-Challenged Persons to Communicate/Influence Their Own Lives......Page 901
Technology for Elderly......Page 902
Technology for Elderly – Seniors and Internet......Page 903
Technology for Elderly – A Survey on 85 Years Old Persons' Use of Hearing-Aids and Subjective Hearing Loss......Page 904
Technology Meets Motor Impaired Children's Play: The State of the Art......Page 905
Text Messaging with Picture Symbols – Possibilities for Persons with Cognitive and Communicative Disabilities......Page 906
The Influence of the Exploration Interface on Blind Subjects' Mental Representation of Sonified Geographic Maps......Page 907
Two-Input Based Procedures Using a Single Device......Page 908
Usability Evaluation of BCIs......Page 909
Using Plain Language (Easy-to-Read) in Network Services......Page 910
Muscular Dystrophies Based Fitts' Model......Page 911
The Centro Protesi Inail's Project "Going Back Home"......Page 912
Subject Index......Page 914
Author Index......Page 920