Computers Helping People with Special Needs

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXII

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2. Invited Contributions

   1. Structured Access to Documents, Digital Talking Books, and Beyond: The DAISY Consortium

      • George Kerscher

      Pages 1-2

   2. eEurope — eAccessibility — User Participation Participation of People with Disabilities and Older People in the Information Society

      • Christian Bühler

      Pages 3-5

   3. From Research to Business Improving the Take Up of Results of Research Projects

      • Christian Bühler

      Pages 6-7

3. Universal Access to Information Society Technologies: Opportunities for People with Disabilities

   1. Universal Access to Information Society Technologies: Opportunities for People with Disabilities

      • Constantine Stephanidis, Pier Luigi Emiliani

      Pages 8-10

   2. Accessibility and Usability of eCommerce Systems

      • Keith Gladstone, Cathy Rundle, Tara Alexander

      Pages 11-18

   3. Recommending Context-Sensitive and Process-Oriented Tourist Information to the Disabled The PALIO Case

      • Michael Pieper

      Pages 19-26

   4. Web Site Accessibility Auditing Tool for Visually Deficient Persons OCAWA

      • Denis Chêne, Michel Hoël

      Pages 27-32

   5. User-Centered Interface Design for Disabled and Elderly People: First Experiences with Designing a Patient Communication System (PACOSY)

      • Andreas Holzinger

      Pages 33-40

   6. The Disappearing Computer: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Disabled and Elderly People

      • Constantine Stephanidis

      Pages 41-48

   7. New Technologies and Services for Disabled and Elderly People in the Emerging Information Society

      • Pier Luigi Emiliani

      Pages 49-57

   8. A Strategy to Achieve the Accessibility of Public Web Sites

      • Sylvie Duchateau, Denis Boulay, Claudine Tchang-Ayo, Dominique Burger

      Pages 58-60

   9. Accessibility and Affordance for Voice Interactive Systems with the VoiceXML Technology

      • Régis Privat, Nadine Vigouroux, Philippe Truillet, Bernard Oriola

      Pages 61-63

4. Computer and Inclusive Education

   1. Computer and Inclusive Education

      • Ewald Feyerer

      Pages 64-67

   2. National Information and Communication Technology Policies — Their Impact upon the Use of ICT in Special Needs Education (SNE)

      • Amanda Watkins, Harald Weber

      Pages 68-75

   3. EUN Virtual School Special Needs Education

      • Walter Rainwald, Virtual School Special Needs Editing Team

      Pages 76-82

   4. Tutorial Systems to Teach Standard Applications to the Learning Disabled

      • Michael Pieper

      Pages 83-89

   5. The Vickie Project

      • Dominique Archambault, Dominique Burger

      Pages 90-97

   6. Using Adaptive Hypermedia to Evaluate Basic Arithmetic Skills in Special Education

      • Jaakko Kurhila, Hanna Varjola

      Pages 98-106

   7. ICT and Assistive Technology in Teachers Education and Training

      • Ewald Feyerer, Klaus Miesenberger, David Wohlhart

      Pages 107-114

Success and e?ciency are the latest standards and scales of our society. Virtual surroundings and communication rooms, electronic portals and platforms are pushing us into a new world of personal and professional interaction and c- peration. The network to subdue violence is fragile and crumbly, tradition is no longer a power of our community. What of leisure time, dreams, and fantasy? What of education in the family, at school and at university? Travelling round the world to develop yourself –how man becomes man: pleading for a new determination of the idea of education –a mission of past centuries inadequate nowadays? Regarding September 11th last year, the con?icts and confrontations round the globe, and events in our direct surroundings these questions seem to be a cry at least to re?ect upon what is happening around us and where we –all of us –still play an active role. An International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs is like an island –is this a topic at all these days, is it worth disc- sing the area of ICT and the situation of people with disabilities, persons who are segregated from developing their personal and professional careers? Indeed the biennial meeting has never included these actualities, but the basic idea behind ICCHP, starting in 1989, was to focus on these fringe groups and to o?er a platform of exchange on all aspects of Human Computer Interaction and the usage of ICT for people with special needs.

• Assistive Technology
• Blind People
• Disabled Persons
• HCT
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Impaired People
• Inclusive Education
• Information Society
• Intelligent Interfaces
• Universal Access
• User Interfaces
• Virtual Reality
• human-computer interaction (HCI)

• SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Klaus Miesenberger

• i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  Joachim Klaus

• i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria

  Wolfgang Zagler

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