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Our senses are the dominant channel for perceiving the world around us. With impairments and lack thereof, people find themselves at the edge of sensorial capability. Some excel and use their impairment as a gift. Prominent examples are Evelyn Glennie, a hearing-impaired percussionist, and Ben Underwood, whose eyes were removed at when he was 5 years, taught himself echolocation. Some seek assistive or enhancing devices which enable a “disabled” user to carry out a task or even turn the user into a “superhuman” with capabilities well beyond the ordinary. The overarching topic of this volume is centered on the design and development of assistive technology, user interfaces and interactions that seamlessly integrate with a user’s mind, body and behavior in this very way–providing enhanced physical, sensorial and cognitive capabilities. We call this “Assistive Augmentation”.
My years of experience at Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf, Sri Lanka made me realize that sensory impairment has nothing to do with intellectual ability. For instance, the deaf children at this school, were able to communicate over much longer distances with sign language and make beautiful computer graphics. In fact, they had such a developed special skill that I felt like the odd man.
Suranga Nanayakkara
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Huber, J., Shilkrot, R., Maes, P., Nanayakkara, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Huber, J., Shilkrot, R., Maes, P., Nanayakkara, S. (eds) Assistive Augmentation. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6404-3_1
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