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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2006.
The 193 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment. Among the technical fields evaluated are information systems, Web, Internet, and their applications, the information society, communication technology, computer-assisted education, human-computer interaction, interface design, virtual reality, haptic copmuting, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, assistive technology, multimedia, display technology, haptic computing, audio interfaces, ad societal and administrative issues.
E-Book Information
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Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4061 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
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Year: 2,006
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 1,358
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Pages In File: 1,382
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Language: English
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Topic: 69
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Library: Kolxo3
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Issue: 2,011
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Identifier: 3540360204,9783540360209
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Doi: 10.1007/11788713
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Org File Size: 42,037,948
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Extension: pdf
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Tags:
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Information Storage and Retrieval
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Computers and Society
Computers and Education
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages - People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing....Pages 1-5 HODDER – A Fully Automatic Braille Note Production System....Pages 6-11 Maps Sonification System Using Digitiser for Visually Impaired Children....Pages 12-15 Document Processing for Accessibility: Standards and Initiatives....Pages 16-23 Expressing Emotions Using Animated Text Captions....Pages 24-31 Schulbuch Barrierefrei (Accessible School Books) – Co-operation Between Publishers and Service Providers in Austria....Pages 32-39 Modelling Accessibility Constraints....Pages 40-47 Scientific PDF Document Reader with Simple Interface for Visually Impaired People....Pages 48-52 English “Oblique” Listening System – Rapid Listening System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Its Evaluation....Pages 53-60 Creating Pictures by Dialogue....Pages 61-68 Automatic Annotation of Geographic Maps....Pages 69-76 Towards the Use of Ontologies for Improving User Interaction for People with Special Needs....Pages 77-84 A Model for Accessible Information Networks – Findings of the EUAIN Project....Pages 85-91 Making the Past a Thing of the Future: Automated Workflow for the Conversion of Printed Items into Fully Structured Digital Objects Based on Common Open Metadata Standards....P