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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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Table of contents (98 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technology

    1. A Multimodal Approach to Accessible Web Content on Smartphones

      • Lars Emil Knudsen, Harald Holone
      Pages 1-8
    2. Visual Nouns for Indoor/Outdoor Navigation

      • Edgardo Molina, Zhigang Zhu, Yingli Tian
      Pages 33-40
    3. A Route Planner Interpretation Service for Hard of Hearing People

      • Mehrez Boulares, Mohamed Jemni
      Pages 52-58
    4. Translating Floor Plans into Directions

      • Martin Spindler, Michael Weber, Denise Prescher, Mei Miao, Gerhard Weber, Georgios Ioannidis
      Pages 59-66
    5. Eyesight Sharing in Blind Grocery Shopping: Remote P2P Caregiving through Cloud Computing

      • Vladimir Kulyukin, Tanwir Zaman, Abhishek Andhavarapu, Aliasgar Kutiyanawala
      Pages 75-82
    6. Assessment Test Framework for Collecting and Evaluating Fall-Related Data Using Mobile Devices

      • Stefan Almer, Josef Kolbitsch, Johannes Oberzaucher, Martin Ebner
      Pages 83-90
    7. Mobile-Type Remote Captioning System for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing People and the Experience of Remote Supports after the Great East Japan Earthquake

      • Shigeki Miyoshi, Sumihiro Kawano, Mayumi Shirasawa, Kyoko Isoda, Michiko Hasuike, Masayuki Kobayashi et al.
      Pages 99-104
    8. Cloud-Based Assistive Speech-Transcription Services

      • Zdenek Bumbalek, Jan Zelenka, Lukas Kencl
      Pages 113-116
    9. Developing a Voice User Interface with Improved Usability for People with Dysarthria

      • Yumi Hwang, Daejin Shin, Chang-Yeal Yang, Seung-Yeun Lee, Jin Kim, Byunggoo Kong et al.
      Pages 117-124
    10. Wearable Range-Vibrotactile Field: Design and Evaluation

      • Frank G. Palmer, Zhigang Zhu, Tony Ro
      Pages 125-132

Other Volumes

  1. Computers Helping People with Special Needs

About this book

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.

Keywords

  • Braille
  • mobile devices
  • natural language processing
  • social networks
  • virtual reality

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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