Computers Helping People with Special Needs

The introduction to the 1st International Conference on Computers for Han- cappedPersons(Vienna,1989)byAMinTjoa(UniversityofVienna)andRoland Wagner(UniversityofLinz)?nishedwiththefollowingmissionstatementonthe "Future Direction on Computers for Handicapped Persons": "The di?erent themes show that a lot of problems are solved by the usage of computer technology for helping handicapped persons, for instance for the blind and visually handicapped. A consequence of the discussed themes there are two directions which should be done in the next years. One direction is obvious. The tools must be improved and research and development work should be extended to all groups of handicapped (even if they are numerically not so large as for instancetheblindorvisuallyhandicappedpersons). Ontheothersideinthearea of social implications there is an increasing demand on social science studies on overall computer use among disabled persons. Because sources are in principle missing today about disabled persons work tasks, research in this ?eld must begin by trying to survey this aspect. Particular attention should be paid to the extent and character of computer use among the handicapped in work life. There are a lot of questions, which should be answered during the next years for reaching the aim of rehabilitation. " Fifteen years later the 9th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (Paris, 2004) o?ered a comprehensive and deepened view on general awareness,special research and individual applications conce- ing disabled people and their participation in our society.

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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 Integra…