This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2008, held in Linz, Austria in July 2008.
The 190 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment. The papers are organized in topical sections on human-computer interaction and usability for elderly, design for all: from idea to practice, users need standards - users need standards need users, accessibility: education for web design and elearning, accessible content processing, web accessibility: automatic/manual evaluation and authoring tools and quality control and best practice, people with disabilities: software accessibility, entertainment software accessibility, hearing impaired, deaf and deafblind people: HCI and communication, people with specific learning difficulties - easy to read and HCI, blind and visually impaired people: HCI and access to graphics, access to mathematics and science, accessible tourism, smart environments, portable and mobile systems in assistive technology, skills vs. abilities: alternative input and communication systems, people with disabilities: speech therapy and sound applications, mobility and care, and service provision.
Author(s): Harold Thimbleby (auth.), Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler, Arthur Karshmer (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5105 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 1350
Tags: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and Society; Computers and Education
Front Matter....Pages -
Understanding User Centred Design (UCD) for People with Special Needs....Pages 1-17
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session: Human–Computer Interaction and Usability for Elderly (HCI4AGING)....Pages 18-21
An Investigation on Acceptance of Ubiquitous Devices for the Elderly in a Geriatric Hospital Environment: Using the Example of Person Tracking....Pages 22-29
Adaptive Interfaces for Supportive Ambient Intelligence Environments....Pages 30-37
Natural Interaction between Avatars and Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 38-45
Exploring the Role of Time and Errors in Real-Life Usability for Older People and ICT....Pages 46-53
An Acoustic Framework for Detecting Fatigue in Speech Based Human-Computer-Interaction....Pages 54-61
Visual and Auditory Interfaces of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems for Older Drivers....Pages 62-69
Eye Tracking Impact on Quality-of-Life of ALS Patients....Pages 70-77
Participative Approaches for “Technology and Autonomous Living”....Pages 78-81
From Cultural to Individual Adaptive End-User Interfaces: Helping People with Special Needs....Pages 82-89
Effects of Icon Concreteness and Complexity on Semantic Transparency: Younger vs. Older Users....Pages 90-97
Investigating Usability Metrics for the Design and Development of Applications for the Elderly....Pages 98-105
Design for All – from Idea to Practise....Pages 106-113
User Modelling in Ambient Intelligence for Elderly and Disabled People....Pages 114-122
Design for All in the Ambient Intelligence Environment....Pages 123-129
Creating Innovative Partnerships with Users in Developing Assistive Technology....Pages 130-137
Public Signs Sight Assessment for Low Vision through Eye Tracking....Pages 138-141
Visual Tools for Accessible Computer Supported Collaboration....Pages 142-149
Supporting Industry in the Development of Design for All Curriculum....Pages 150-155
European Developments in the Design and Implementation of Training for eInclusion....Pages 156-161
Users with Disabilities and Standards....Pages 162-165
AT and DfA Standardisation: What Is Currently Going on?....Pages 166-169
Using Public Procurement to Ensure That Accessible ICT Products and Services Are Available for All European Citizens (ETSI HF STF 333)....Pages 170-177
Accessibility: Education for Web Design and E-Learning Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 178-181
Joint Study Programme on Accessible Web Design....Pages 182-189
Design of a 10 Credit Masters Level Assistive Technologies and Universal Design Module....Pages 190-193
Experiential Coe-Tutoring: A Report on Taiwan’s OpenStudy Project That Seeks Innovative Accessible E-Learning Methodologies....Pages 194-197
Using a Computer Aided Test to Raise Awareness of Disability Issues amongst University Teaching Staff....Pages 198-206
The Impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Diverse Students and Teachers at Second Level....Pages 207-214
Round Peg, Square Hole: Supporting Via the Web Staff and Learners Who Do Not Fit into Traditional Learner-Teacher-Institution Scenarios....Pages 215-218
Distance Learning of Graphically Intensive Material for Visually Impaired Students....Pages 219-225
M-Learning Accessibility Design: A Case Study....Pages 226-233
Accessible Content Processing Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 234-237
Automated Drug Information System for Aged and Visually Impaired Persons....Pages 238-241
A Semi-automatic Support to Adapt E-Documents in an Accessible and Usable Format for Vision Impaired Users....Pages 242-249
Accessibility for Blind Users: An Innovative Framework....Pages 250-257
User Testing: How to Involve Users in Technical Web Development Cycles as a Natural Evolution in the Creation of Inclusive Technologies and Accessible Content....Pages 258-263
Accessibility Standards Are Not Always Enough: The Development of the Accessibility Passport....Pages 264-267
DAISY – Universally Designed? Prototyping an Approach to Measuring Universal Design....Pages 268-275
A System for Dynamic Adaptation of Web Interfaces Based on User Interaction Requirements....Pages 276-283
Modern Digital Libraries, the Case of the Audio-Book Boom....Pages 284-290
Xerte – A User-Friendly Tool for Creating Accessible Learning Objects....Pages 291-294
GATE to Accessibility of Computer Graphics....Pages 295-302
CONTRAPUNCTUS Project: A New Computer Solution for Braille Music Fruition....Pages 303-309
BMML: A Mark-Up Language for Braille Music....Pages 310-317
Automated Book Reader Design for Persons with Blindness....Pages 318-325
Making Conference CDs Accessible: A Practical Example....Pages 326-333
Web Accessibility - Automatic/Manual Evaluation and Authoring Tools....Pages 334-337
A Software Solution for Accessible E-Government Portals....Pages 338-345
A Development Toolkit for Unified Web-Based User Interfaces....Pages 346-353
Automatic Creation of User Profiles for Achieving Personal Web Accessibility....Pages 354-361
Accessible Flash Is No Oxymoron: A Case Study in E-Learning for Blind and Sighted Users....Pages 362-369
Building Accessible Flash Applications: An XML-Based Toolkit....Pages 370-377
Accessible Graphics in Web Applications: Dynamic Generation, Analysis and Verification....Pages 378-385
Analysing the 2D, 3D and Web User Interface Navigation Structures of Normal Users and Users with Mild Intellectual Disabilities....Pages 386-393
The Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) 1.2 for WCAG 1.0....Pages 394-401
The BenToWeb Test Case Suites for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0....Pages 402-409
Monitoring Accessibility of Governmental Web Sites in Europe....Pages 410-417
Proposal for a Structure Mark-Up Supporting Accessibility for the Next Generation (X)HTML-Standards....Pages 418-425
Improving Web Form Accessibility Using Semantic XForms for People with Cognitive Impairments....Pages 426-429
Improving the Accessibility of Wikis....Pages 430-437
Requirements of Users with Disabilities for E-government Services in Greece....Pages 438-445
Tools for Deaf Accessibility to an eGOV Environment....Pages 446-453
Using Web Content Management Systems for Accessibility: The Experience of a Research Institute Portal....Pages 454-461
Accessible Online Shops for the Older Generation and People with Disabilities....Pages 462-465
WebGen System - Visually Impaired Users Create Web Pages....Pages 466-473
An Accessible Media Player as a User Agent for the Web....Pages 474-481
Usability and Accessibility on the Internet: Effects of Accessible Web Design on Usability....Pages 482-489
Exploratory Case Study Research on Web Accessibility....Pages 490-497
Web Accessible and Mobile: The Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines....Pages 498-501
Making Business Software Usable for Handicapped Employees....Pages 502-509
Quality Processes and Milestones for the Development and Monitoring of Business Software in the Area of Accessibility....Pages 510-517
Accessibility of Educational Software: From Evaluation to Design Guidelines....Pages 518-525
How Can Java Be Made Blind-Friendly....Pages 526-533
Requirements for a Method of Software Accessibility Conformity Assessment....Pages 534-541
Towards Generalised Accessibility of Computer Games Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 542-544
Profiling Robot-Mediated Play for Children with Disabilities through ICF-CY: The Example of the European Project IROMEC....Pages 545-552
MP3 Players and Audio Games: An Alternative to Portable Video Games Console for Visually Impaired Players....Pages 553-560
Non-visual Gameplay: Making Board Games Easy and Fun....Pages 561-568
An Accessible Viewer for Digital Comic Books....Pages 569-577
Flexible and Simple User Interfaces in Entertaining Software....Pages 578-584
A Computer Game Designed for All....Pages 585-592
Artificial Ants and Dynamical Adaptation of Accessible Games Level....Pages 593-600
Accessibility Issues in Game-Like Interfaces....Pages 601-604
Human Computer Interaction and Communication Aids for Hearing-Impaired, Deaf and Deaf-Blind People: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 605-608
EnACT: A Software Tool for Creating Animated Text Captions....Pages 609-616
Captioning Multiple Speakers Using Speech Recognition to Assist Disabled People....Pages 617-623
Extracting Pointing Object with Demonstrative Speech Phrase for Remote Transcription in Lecture....Pages 624-631
A Study on Demonstrative Words Extraction in Instructor Utterance on Communication Support for Hearing Impaired Persons....Pages 632-639
Development of a Web Type DVD Viewer Synchronized with Multilingual Captions for Existing DVDs....Pages 640-646
Support Technique for Real-Time Captionist to Use Speech Recognition Software....Pages 647-650
New Real-Time Closed-Captioning System for Japanese Broadcast News Programs....Pages 651-654
eRehabilitation: A Portal Framework for Aural Rehabilitation....Pages 655-662
Multimedia Interfaces for BSL Using Lip Readers....Pages 663-669
A System to Make Signs Using Collaborative Approach....Pages 670-677
Application System of the Universal Sign Code - Development of the Portable Sign Presenter -....Pages 678-681
Body-Braille System for Disabled People....Pages 682-685
Dialog Support for Deafblind Persons by Conveying Backchannels through Vibration....Pages 686-689
People with Specific Learning Difficulties: Easy to Read and HCI....Pages 690-692
Using Expert System to Assist Mouse Proficiency Assessment....Pages 693-699
Naming Game – An Automated Tool for Analyzing and Practicing Rapid Serial Naming on Dyslexic Persons....Pages 700-704
Cognitive Abilities of Functionally Illiterate Persons Relevant to ICT Use....Pages 705-712
User-Centered Design with Illiterate Persons: The Case of the ATM User Interface....Pages 713-720
Analysis and Adaptation of Workplaces for People with Cognitive Disabilities Using Software Tools....Pages 721-728
Tutor Project: An Intelligent Tutoring System to Improve Cognitive Disabled People Integration....Pages 729-732
Adaptive Spell Checker for Dyslexic Writers....Pages 733-741
Dyslexia: Study of Compensatory Software Which Aids the Mathematical Learning Process of Dyslexic Students at Secondary School and University....Pages 742-746
The Effectiveness of TriAccess Reading System on Comprehending Nature Science Text for Students with Learning Disabilities....Pages 747-754
Usable and Accessible Plain Language (Easy-to-Read) Network Service....Pages 755-758
The Design of Talking Music Web Browser for Teaching Learning-Disabled Children: A Scaffolding Strategy to Aural Skills....Pages 759-762
Information Center on Accessible Information....Pages 763-766
Blind and Visually Impaired People: Human-Computer Interaction and Access to Graphics....Pages 767-769
Making the I-Maestro Music Learning Framework Accessible....Pages 770-776
Voice Browser for Groupware Systems: VoBG - A Simple Groupware Client for Visually Impaired Students....Pages 777-780
Making ProTools Accessible for Visually Impaired....Pages 781-788
User-Interface Modelling for Blind Users....Pages 789-796
Towards an Open Source Screen Reader: Screenreader Usability Extensions (SUE)....Pages 797-800
ZoomLinux: A Research Result Providing a Tangible Response to the Needs of Low Vision Students....Pages 801-808
An Analysis of Human-to-Human Dialogs and Its Application to Assist Visually-Impaired People....Pages 809-812
Learning Support System Based on Note-Taking Method for People with Acquired Visual Disabilities....Pages 813-820
Dot Detection of Optical Braille Images for Braille Cells Recognition....Pages 821-826
Developing Multimedia-Game Software to Improve Space and Depth Perception....Pages 827-834
Tactile Graphics Revised: The Novel BrailleDis 9000 Pin-Matrix Device with Multitouch Input....Pages 835-842
Sensitive Braille Displays with ATC Technology (Active Tactile Control) as a Tool for Learning Braille....Pages 843-850
Dual Mode Fingertip Guiding Manipulator for Blind Persons Enabling Passive/Active Line-Drawing Explorations....Pages 851-858
Toward Touching a Landscape in a Picture: Investigation of Groping Strategy about Tactile Images and Image Simplification Method....Pages 859-864
An Off-Screen Model for Tactile Graphical User Interfaces....Pages 865-872
Access to Mathematics and Science....Pages 873-874
Multimedia MathReader for Daisy Books....Pages 875-878
Writing Mathematics by Speech: A Case Study for Visually Impaired....Pages 879-882
Universal Authoring System for Braille Materials by Collaboration of UMCL and Infty....Pages 883-887
Assessing the Mathematics Related Communication Requirements of the Blind in Education and Career....Pages 888-891
New Features in Math Accessibility with Infty Software....Pages 892-899
Making Arithmetic Accessible....Pages 900-906
Learning Math for Visually Impaired Users....Pages 907-914
Manipulatives in the History of Teaching: Fast Forward to AutOMathic Blocks for the Blind....Pages 915-918
Braille-Embedded Tactile Graphics Editor with Infty System....Pages 919-925
Access to Mathematics in Web Resources for People with a Visual Impairment....Pages 926-933
Multimodal Exploration and Manipulation of Graph Structures....Pages 934-937
The Development of a Universal Design Tactile Graphics Production System BPLOT2....Pages 938-945
Transnational Support to Visually Impaired in Scientific University Courses....Pages 946-952
Chemical Workbench for Blind People – Accessing the Structure of Chemical Formula....Pages 953-960
E-Learning for Secondary School Teachers: Inclusive Science and Math Instruction for Students with Disabilities....Pages 961-968
Accessible Tourism Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 969-972
How to Inform People with Reduced Mobility about Public Transport....Pages 973-980
A Flexible Concept to Establish Accessibility Information in Tourism Web-Pages....Pages 981-988
(e-)Accessibility Research from the Perspective of the Tourism, Sport and Leisure Industries – Selected Project Results and Future Focus of the e-Motion Competence Centre....Pages 989-996
Smart Environments: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session....Pages 997-1000
All the Way to Living Independently: Reflections on a Design Case....Pages 1001-1007
A Living Lab for Ambient Assisted Living in the Municipality of Schwechat....Pages 1008-1015
ENABLE – A View on User’s Needs....Pages 1016-1023
EasyControl – Universal Control System....Pages 1024-1029
Eye, Me and the Environment....Pages 1030-1033
Development of a Low Cost Base Station for Multimodal Home Monitoring....Pages 1034-1041
Distributed Accelerometers as a Main Component in Detecting Activities of Daily Living....Pages 1042-1049
A Smart Indoor Navigation Solution Based on Building Information Model and Google Android....Pages 1050-1056
Developing a Sub Room Level Indoor Location System for Wide Scale Deployment in Assisted Living Systems....Pages 1057-1064
Utilizing QR Code and Mobile Phones for Blinds and Visually Impaired People....Pages 1065-1069
Exploiting RFIDs and Tilt-Based Interaction for Mobile Museum Guides Accessible to Vision-Impaired Users....Pages 1070-1077
Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technology....Pages 1078-1080
A Survey on the Use of Mobile Phones by Visually Impaired Persons in Japan....Pages 1081-1084
Mobility Impaired Pedestrians Are Not Cars: Requirements for the Annotation of Geographical Data....Pages 1085-1092
People Helping Computers Helping People: Navigation for People with Mobility Problems by Sharing Accessibility Annotations....Pages 1093-1100
Inclusion of Accessibility Requirements in the Design of Electronic Guides for Museums....Pages 1101-1108
ODILIA - A Mobility Concept for the Visually Impaired....Pages 1109-1116
Cellphone Accessible Information Via Bluetooth Beaconing for the Visually Impaired....Pages 1117-1121
Crosswatch: A Camera Phone System for Orienting Visually Impaired Pedestrians at Traffic Intersections....Pages 1122-1128
Personal Mobile Assistant for Air Passengers with Disabilities (PMA)....Pages 1129-1134
Search Strategies of Visually Impaired Persons Using a Camera Phone Wayfinding System....Pages 1135-1140
Design of a Haptic Direction Indicator for Visually Impaired People in Emergency Situations....Pages 1141-1144
A New Cell Phone Remote Control for People with Visual Impairment....Pages 1145-1152
Skills vs. Abilities....Pages 1153-1156
A Character Input System Using Tooth-Touch Sound for Disabled People....Pages 1157-1160
An Eye Gaze Tracking System Using Customized User Profiles to Help Persons with Motor Challenges Access Computers....Pages 1161-1168
Applicability of No-Hands Computer Input Devices for the Certificates for Microsoft Office Software....Pages 1169-1176
Assisting an Adolescent with Cerebral Palsy to Entry Text by Using the Chorded Keyboard....Pages 1177-1183
Designing a Scanning On-Screen Keyboard for People with Severe Motor Disabilities....Pages 1184-1187
Evaluating the Hands-Free Mouse Control System: An Initial Case Study....Pages 1188-1195
GrooveWrite: A Multi-purpose Stylus-Based Text Entry Method....Pages 1196-1203
Interaction between a Disabled Person and a Scanning Communication Aid: Towards an Automatic Adjustment of the Scanning Rate Adapted to the User....Pages 1204-1207
Investigation of Calibration Techniques in Video Based Eye Tracking System....Pages 1208-1215
Text Entry System Based on a Minimal Scan Matrix for Severely Physically Handicapped People....Pages 1216-1219
Applications for Proximity Sensors in Music and Sound Performance....Pages 1220-1227
EasyVoice: Breaking Barriers for People with Voice Disabilities....Pages 1228-1235
An Experiment Using Personalised Multimedia Interfaces for Speech Therapy....Pages 1236-1243
MOVEMENT – A Modular and Versatile Mobility Enhancement System....Pages 1244-1249
BMI Based RHC Method for Wheelchair....Pages 1250-1260
Modeling a Hands-Free Controlled Power Wheelchair....Pages 1261-1268
Brake Control Assist on a Four-Castered Walker for Old People....Pages 1269-1276
Development of a Sit-to-Stand Assistance System....Pages 1277-1284
OLDES: Designing a Low-Cost, Easy-to-Use e-Care System Together with the Stakeholders....Pages 1285-1292
The Risk Factor in the Adaptation of Worksites in ICT-Related Jobs....Pages 1293-1300
Development of a Wearable Measurement System to Identify Characteristics in Human Gait - eSHOE -....Pages 1301-1304
Experiences Using Mobile Phones as Patient-Terminal for Telemedical Home Care and Therapy Monitoring of Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases....Pages 1305-1312
Making an International Certificate Accessible....Pages 1313-1320
Effective Application of Paro: Seal Type Robots for Disabled People in According to Ideas of Occupational Therapists....Pages 1321-1324
Which Technology Do We Want? Ethical Considerations about Technical Aids and Assisting Technology....Pages 1325-1331
Characteristics and Solutions of Digital Divide for People with Physical Impairments in Taiwan....Pages 1332-1339
Long-Time Effect from Deprived Communication, Information and Orientation/Mobility in Individuals with Acquired Dual Impairment and the Need for ICT-Aids....Pages 1340-1343
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