Computers Helping People with Special Needs

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.- From Research to Business Improving the Take Up of Results of Research Projects.- 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.- Web Site 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.- 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.- 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 Web Browser 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.- Control Method of Walking Speed and Step Length for Hybrid 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.- 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.- 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 Visuallyss 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 Arab Sub-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.- 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 Web Users.- 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 - Web Portal 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 Limb Motor 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 Handicapées” — Software for the Design of an Adapted Living Area.- “Bonkers”. Increasing Literacy Skills: An Eclectic Electronic Teaching Approach Gone “Bonkers”.- Access Music.- 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.- IT-Certificates 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.