"Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 8th International Conference, ICCHP 2002. Proceedings" ed. by Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler

"Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 8th International Conference, ICCHP 2002. Proceedings" ed. by Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2398
Sрringеr | 2002 | ISBN: 3540439048 9783540439042 | 816 pages | PDF | 10 MB

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2002, held in Linz, Austria in July 2002. The 155 papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities.

Among the technical fields evaluated are information systems, information society, computer-assisted education, human-computer interaction, interface design, virtual reality, Internet applications, mobile computing, assistive technology, communication technology, multimedia, display technology, haptic copmuting, audio interfaces, and societal and administrative issues.

Table of Contents
Invited Contributions
Structured Access to Documents, Digital Talking Books, and Beyond: The DAISY Consortium eEurope – eAccessibility – User Participation
Participation of People with Disabilities and Older People in the Information Society (Introduction to the Special Thematic Session)
From Research to Business Improving the Take Up of Results of Research Projects Introduction to the Workshop
Universal Access to Information Society Technologies:
Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Universal Access to Information Society
Technologies: Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Accessibility and Usability of eCommerce Systems
Recommending Context-Sensitive and Process-Oriented Tourist Information to the Disabled – The PALIO Case
WebSite Accessibility Auditing Tool for Visually Deficient Persons OCAWA
User-Centered Interface Design for Disabled and Elderly People: First Experiences with Designing a Patient Communication System (PACOSY)
The Disappearing Computer: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Disabled and Elderly People
New Technologies and Services for Disabled and Elderly People in the Emerging Information Society
A Strategy to Achieve the Accessibility of Public Web Sites
Accessibility and Affordance for Voice Interactive Systems with the VoiceXML Technology
Computer and Inclusive Education
National Information and Communication Technology Policies – Their Impact upon the Use of ICT in Special Needs Education (SNE)
EUN Virtual School Special Needs Education
Tutorial Systems to Teach Standard Applications to the Learning Disabled
The Vickie Project
Using Adaptive Hypermedia to Evaluate Basic Arithmetic Skills in Special Education
ICT and Assistive Technology in Teachers Education and Training
Bridging the Information Gap between IST and SEN – A Practical Approach on European Level
Evaluational Study: Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents
Usage of Modern Technologies – A Chance for People with Special
Needs?! – Pedagogically Relevant Criteria for the Review of Educational Software Exemplified by “Step by Step 3”
Social Innovation in the Information Society – Take It Easy
ODL:Inclusive – Improving Inclusive Teaching through Online Training
Accessible E-learning: Infrastructure and Content
Addizionario: Words in Your Pocket
Virtual Reality
Virtual Travel Training for People with Learning Disabilities
Accessing Employment Including the Introduction to the Special Thematic Session “Virtual Reality”
Assessing Virtual Reality as a Tool for Support Imagination
Literacy and Numeracy Edutainment Packages for Disaffected Young Learners
Control of Virtual Environments for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Online Gardening to Promote Social Inclusion
Hearing Impaired People – Computers and Communication
Selective Phoneme Spotting for Realization of an /s, z, C, t/ Transposer
A Multimedia Based Software for Non-Japanese to Learn Japanese Sign Language
The User Interface Design for the Sign Language Translator in a Remote Sign Language Interpretation System
The See-through Head Mount Display as the Information Offering Device for the Hearing Impaired Students
Digital Speech Signal Processing to Compensate Severe Sensory
Hearing Deficits: The /s, z, C, t/ Transposer Module in Simulation – An Overview and Examples
Computers for the Development of Young Disabled Children
Multimedia Games for Visually Impaired Children
Technical Assistance for Motor- and Multiple Disabled Children – Some Long Term Experiences
The Design of an Adaptive WebBro wser for Young Children with Reading Difficulties
Can All Young Disabled Children Play at the Computer?
TL a Language to Create Games for Visually Impaired Children
Mobility Impaired People – Individual Autonomy and HCI
Power Assist System HAL-3 for Gait Disorder Person
Computer Access Assessment for Persons with Physical
Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technology Interventions
A Proposal of Effective Motion Learning Method Using Sensory Feedback for Walk-Disabled People Assistive Leg
The Development of Gait Training System for Computer-Aided Rehabilitation
Accessing Internet Courses by Eye Movement and Head Movement
The Program for Improving the Working Interfaces and Increasing the Work Competencies of People with Severe Physical Disabilities: The Evaluation, Design, and Training of the Adaptive Computer Devices
Typing – Alternative and Augmentative Communication
Matching Typing Persons and Intelligent Interfaces
FASTY – A Multi-lingual Approach to Text Prediction
Informing Flexible Abbreviation Expansion for Users with Motor Disabilities
Cyclic Input of Characters through a Single Button Manipulation
Developing of Predictive Communication System for the Physically Disabled People
Teaching Adolescents with Disabilities to Learn Chinese
Keyboarding by Using Multimedia Computer Assisted Input
Method Learning System
Accelerating Assessment with Self-Optimizing Devices
A Proposal of an Evaluation Framework for Writing Assistance Systems: Application to VITIPI
Individually Assisted Text Entry with Situational and Contextual Prediction
Accessible Digital Media
Methods for Inclusion: Employing Think Aloud Protocol with Individuals Who Are Deaf
Emotive Captioning in a Digital World
Spoken Subtitles: Making Subtitled TV Programmes Accessible
Accessible Digital Media
Electronic and Virtual Libraries: Access for Print Disabled People
Semantically Rich Markup, Should You Be Agnostic in Your Choice of a Vocabulary
DZB – A German Library for the Blind Goes Digital
Harmonisation of the Copyright Law throughout the European Union – A Challenge for All Print Disabled People
A Distributed Document Oriented Architecture for Rendering Services to Visually Impaired Students
ABA’s Virtual Library Services for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Libbraille: A Portable Library to Easily Access Braille Displays
CYNTHIA: An HTML Browser for Visually Handicapped People
A Secure Internet Service for Delivering Documents for the Blind
Virtual Libraries Initiatives with Usable Results for Print Disabled People
Unlocking Doors: Building an Accessible Online Information Node
Using XML as a Reading Enabler for Visually Impaired Persons
The Accessibility of Online Library Resources for People with Print Disabilities: Research and Strategies for Change
Quick Access to Dictionaries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Perspectives and Possibilities for the Automated Processing of Scientific Texts for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Universal Usability Issues of Textual Information Structures, Commands, and Languages of Native Visually Challenged Users: An Inclusive Design Framework
Accessible Interface Design: Adaptive Multimedia Information System (AMIS)
Reading Multimedia Documents
Blind and Visually Impaired People – Mobility and HCI
Comparison of Various Interface Modalities for a Locomotion Assistance Device
Providing Help for Visually Impaired People’s Navigation in an Urban Environment Using GPS .
New Trends and Developments in Computer and Internet Technology
for Visually Impaired People: A Survey and Usefulness in the ArabSub -region
Auditory Emotional Access to Visual Information
Auditory Sensation Aided Image Perception: Integration of Somesthetic Sense of Fingertip Position
A Novel Application to Aid Low Vision Computer Users
Visually Impaired Persons Using Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
Using MS Office Features as Low Vision Accessibility Tools
Access to Mathematics by Blind Students
Architecting an Auditory Browser for Navigating Mathematical Expressions
REMathEx – Reader and Editor of the Mathematical Expressions for Blind Students
Speaking Technical Documents: Using Prosody to Convey Textual and Mathematical Material
Access by Blind Students and Professionals to Mainstream Math and Science
LATEX at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg – Experiences at the Institute for Visually Impaired Students
Experience with Access to Mathematics for Blind Students in Slovakia
Infty Alpha Test Site
Designing an AutoMouse to Promote Computer Accessibility for People with Severe Physical Impairments
Blind People – Tactile Graphics, Displays, and HCI
Evaluation of Long Descriptions of Statistical Graphics for Blind and Low Vision WebUsers
A Tactile Display System Equipped with a Pointing Device – MIMIZU
Preparing Tactile Graphics for Traditional Braille Printers with BrlGraphEditor
TeDUB: A System for Presenting and Exploring Technical Drawings for Blind People
Improvement of User Interface for Blind PC Users
Haptic and Audio Interfaces and Virtual Reality for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Haptic Perception of 2D Pictures and 3D Objects: Accurate Mental Representation as a Function of Visual Status
Microelectrical Mechanical Systems Actuator Array for Tactile Communication
Designing Interactive Tactile Diagrams
3D Audio in the 21st Century
Going Places with “KnowWare”: Virtual Reality Maps for Blind People
Blind People – Human Computer Interaction
Mental Models of Blind Users in the Windows Environment
An Approach to Producing New Languages for Talking Applications for Use by Blind People
User Requirements for Technologies for Personal Communication and Information Use for Deafblind People .
Project IPSIS – WebP ortal and Linux for the Blind
An Analysis of Layout Errors in Word Processed Documents Produced by Blind People
Windows Screen Reader User Survey in Japan
Tools for Creating Documents in ‘Preferred Format’ for Visually Impaired People .
Blind People – Braille Printing
Braille Printing System
Braille Contractions in WinBraille
Braille to Text Translation for Hungarian
The WinBraille Approach to Producing Braille Quickly and Effectively
People with Disabilities – Daily Living
Haptic Device System for Upper LimbMotor Function and Cognitive Function Rehabilitation
Networking for Accessibility: Elderly People and New Technology
Tele-Help and Remote Service Provision Using RESORT Prototype System
Making Yourself at Home – Portable Personal Access Preferences
EU Project SILC – Personal Bio-Sensor Based Alarm System
Videophones: Useful Assistive Devices for Visually Impaired Persons?
HMPH – “Habitat Mobile pour Personnes Handicap´ees” – Software for the Design of an Adapted Living Area
“Bonkers”. Increasing Literacy Skills: An Eclectic Electronic Teaching Approach Gone ”Bonkers”
Access Music
Spoken Music: Enhancing Access to Music for the Print Disabled
A Music Score Recogniser for the Blind
Visualization of Music Notation for Partially Sighted Persons
Accessing the Software Studio
People with Disabilities – Political, Legal, and Individual Aspects
Opening Doors to Information Technology – Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Access: The North American Experience of Legislating Attitudes
An Open Machine Translation System for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Capabilities and Limitations of the Disabled in Remote Access to Information
IMPACT: An Example of Information, Awareness, and Legislation, Leading toward a More Accessible Workplace
IT-Certficiates to Foster the Vocational Integration of People with Disabilities: ECDL PD
ECDL for Visually Impaired Persons: Learning Materials, Individual Training, and Distance Education
ECDL PD – Using a Well Known Standard to Lift Barriers on the Labour Market
KISS – Keep It Short and Simple?
Many Ways to ECDL
Studying and Academic Mobility – IT Support for People with Disabilities
Studying and Academic Mobility – IT Support for Students with Disabilities
Developing Academic Skills among Print Disabled Students: IT Based Austrian-Wide Network for Service Provision
Access to Learning for All
The Evolving Door: Providing Technology Access for Post-secondary Students in a Constantly Changing Technology-Based Culture
Taking Assistive Technology to the Highest Degree
Learning from Each Other: Comparing the Service Provision for Blind and Visually-Impaired Students in Post-secondary Education in Japan and Europe
How Accessible Are Web Information Resources for Students with Disabilities?
Providing Assistive Technology and Alternate Media in Community Colleges: A Case Study
International Collaboration to Improve Assistive Technology Outcomes
International Collaboration to Improve Assistive Technology Outcomes
The Study of Assistive Technology Outcomes in the United States
Future Challenges in AT Outcome Measurement
European Instruments for Assistive Technology Outcome Assessment
Implementing Outcomes Measurement in an Assistive Technology Service Delivery System
Author Index

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