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Computers Helping People with Special Needs

13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II

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  1. Klaus Miesenberger

    1. University of Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Linz, Austria

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  2. Arthur Karshmer

    1. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

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  3. Petr Penaz

    1. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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  4. Wolfgang Zagler

    1. Institute “integriert studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7383)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (98 papers)

  1. Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technology

    1. System Supporting Speech Perception in Special Educational Needs Schoolchildren

      • Adam Kupryjanow, Piotr Suchomski, Piotr Odya, Andrzej Czyzewski
      Pages 133-136

    2. Designing a Mobile Application to Record ABA Data

      • Silvia Artoni, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Claudia Fenili, Barbara Leporini, Simona Mencarini et al.
      Pages 137-144

  2. Assistive Technology, HCI and Rehabilitation

    1. Creating Personas with Disabilities

      • Trenton Schulz, Kristin Skeide Fuglerud
      Pages 145-152

    2. Eye Controlled Human Computer Interaction for Severely Motor Disabled Children

      • Mojca Debeljak, Julija Ocepek, Anton Zupan
      Pages 153-156

    3. Gravity Controls for Windows

      • Peter Heumader, Klaus Miesenberger, Gerhard Nussbaum
      Pages 157-163

    4. Addressing Accessibility Challenges of People with Motor Disabilities by Means of AsTeRICS: A Step by Step Definition of Technical Requirements

      • Alvaro García-Soler, Unai Diaz-Orueta, Roland Ossmann, Gerhard Nussbaum, Christoph Veigl, Chris Weiss et al.
      Pages 164-171

    5. Indoor and Outdoor Mobility for an Intelligent Autonomous Wheelchair

      • C. T. Lin, Craig Euler, Po-Jen Wang, Ara Mekhtarian
      Pages 172-179

    6. Comparing the Accuracy of a P300 Speller for People with Major Physical Disability

      • Alexander Lechner, Rupert Ortner, Fabio Aloise, Robert Prückl, Francesca Schettini, Veronika Putz et al.
      Pages 180-183

    7. Application of Robot Suit HAL to Gait Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients: A Case Study

      • Kanako Yamawaki, Ryohei Ariyasu, Shigeki Kubota, Hiroaki Kawamoto, Yoshio Nakata, Kiyotaka Kamibayashi et al.
      Pages 184-187

  3. Sign 2.0: ICT for Sign Language Users: Information Sharing, Interoperability, User-Centered Design and Collaboration

    1. Sign 2.0: ICT for Sign Language Users: Information Sharing, Interoperability, User-Centered Design and Collaboration

      • Liesbeth Pyfers
      Pages 188-191

    2. Toward Developing a Very Big Sign Language Parallel Corpus

      • Achraf Othman, Zouhour Tmar, Mohamed Jemni
      Pages 192-199

    3. Czech Sign Language – Czech Dictionary and Thesaurus On-Line

      • Jan Fikejs, Tomáš Sklenák
      Pages 200-204

    4. The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf

      • Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, John Glauert, Richard Bowden, Annelies Braffort et al.
      Pages 205-212

    5. Sign Language Multimedia Based Interaction for Aurally Handicapped People

      • Matjaž Debevc, Ines Kožuh, Primož Kosec, Milan Rotovnik, Andreas Holzinger
      Pages 213-220

    6. Meeting Support System for the Person with Hearing Impairment Using Tablet Devices and Speech Recognition

      • Makoto Kobayashi, Hiroki Minagawa, Tomoyuki Nishioka, Shigeki Miyoshi
      Pages 221-224

    7. Dubbing of Videos for Deaf People – A Sign Language Approach

      • Franz Niederl, Petra Bußwald, Georg Tschare, Jürgen Hackl, Josef Philipp
      Pages 225-228

    8. Towards a 3D Signing Avatar from SignWriting Notation

      • Yosra Bouzid, Maher Jbali, Oussama El Ghoul, Mohamed Jemni
      Pages 229-236

    9. Sign Language Computer-Aided Education: Exploiting GSL Resources and Technologies for Web Deaf Communication

      • Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou, Athanasia-Lida Dimou
      Pages 237-244

    10. SignMedia

      • Luzia Gansinger
      Pages 245-252

    11. SignAssess – Online Sign Language Training Assignments via the Browser, Desktop and Mobile

      • Christopher John
      Pages 253-260
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The two-volume set LNCS 7382 and 7383 constiutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2012, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2012. The 147 revised full papers and 42 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: portable and mobile systems in assistive technology; assistive technology, HCI and rehabilitation; sign 2.0: ICT for sign language users: information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration; computer-assisted augmentative and alternative communication; easy to Web between science of education, information design and speech technology; smart and assistive environments: ambient assisted living; text entry for accessible computing; tactile graphics and models for blind people and recognition of shapes by touch; mobility for blind and partially sighted people; and human-computer interaction for blind and partially sighted people.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  • University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  • Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  • Institute “integriert studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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