Computers Helping People with Special Needs

1. Personalization of Interactive Systems

   1. Adaptation of Multimedia Browsing Techniques

      • Kurt Weimann, Ine Langer, Gerhard Weber

      Pages 135-142

   2. Adapting Presentation and Interaction with XML Documents to User Preferences

      • Benoît Encelle, Nadine Baptiste-Jessel

      Pages 143-150

2. e-Learning and Accessibility

   1. Living, Teaching and Learning at Any Time and at Any Place. e-Learning – Opportunities and Barriers for Visually Impaired Students

      • Joachim Klaus

      Pages 151-156

   2. Accessibility for e-Learning Environments

      • Mari Luz Guenaga, Dominique Burger, Javier Oliver

      Pages 157-163

   3. ECDL-PD: International Co-operation to Keep the Syllabus and MQTB Open for Everybody

      • Klaus Miesenberger, Martin Morandell, Andrea Petz, Denise Leahy

      Pages 164-170

   4. Essential Competencies of Special Educator in Integrating Assistive Technology into the Curriculum

      • Ming-Chung Chen, Ting-Fang Wu, Chi-Nung Chu

      Pages 171-177

   5. Web Adaptation of Learning Objects for Special Access WALOSA

      • Carole Salis, Cristian Lai, Claude Moulin

      Pages 178-182

   6. Postgraduate Course on Accessible Web Design

      • Daniela Ortner, Mario Batušić, Klaus Miesenberger

      Pages 183-186

   7. Cognitive Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA) in Children with Learning Disabilities

      • Yehya Mohamad, Carlos A. Velasco, Sylvia Damm, Holger Tebarth

      Pages 187-193

   8. A Concept Map_Based Adaptive Tutoring System Supporting Learning Diagnosis for Students with Learning Disability

      • Sook-Young Choi

      Pages 194-201

   9. Tutor Informatico: Increasing the Selfteaching in Down Syndrome People

      • Eduardo Campos, Ana Granados, Sergio Jiménez, Javier Garrido

      Pages 202-205

   10. The Effect of Assistive Technology on Educational Costs: Two Case Studies

       • Amy Gips, Philip A. DiMattia, James Gips

       Pages 206-213

3. Making Music Accessible

   1. Making Music Accessible

      • David Crombie, Roger Lenoir, Neil McKenzie, Ben Challis

      Pages 214-217

   2. The Design of Spoken Music Web Browser for Teaching Learning-Disabled Children: A Chevé System Approach to Music Notation

      • Chi-Nung Chu, Yu Ting Huang

      Pages 218-223

   3. DaCapo, a Project on Transforming Ink Printed to Braille Notes Semi-automatically

      • Thomas Kahlisch, Matthias Leopold, Christian Waldvogel

      Pages 224-227

   4. Using SVG and a Force Feedback Mouse to Enable Blind People to Access “Graphical” Web Based Documents

      • Nadine Baptiste-Jessel, Bertrand Tornil, Benoit Encelle

      Pages 228-235

   5. Modified Stave Notation – An Approach to Making Stave Notation More Accessible to Users Who Are Partially Sighted

      • Sally-Anne Zimmermann

      Pages 236-239

4. Accessible Games and Entertainment

   1. Entertaining Software for Young Persons with Disabilities

      • Morten Tollefsen, Magne Lunde

      Pages 240-247

   2. The TiM Project: Overview of Results

      • Dominique Archambault

      Pages 248-256

   3. 3D Shooting Games, Multimodal Games, Sound Games and More Working Examples of the Future of Games for the Blind

      • Eric Velleman, Richard van Tol, Sander Huiberts, Hugo Verwey

      Pages 257-263

The introduction to the 1st International Conference on Computers for Han- cappedPersons(Vienna,1989)byAMinTjoa(UniversityofVienna)andRoland Wagner(UniversityofLinz)?nishedwiththefollowingmissionstatementonthe “Future Direction on Computers for Handicapped Persons”: “The di?erent themes show that a lot of problems are solved by the usage of computer technology for helping handicapped persons, for instance for the blind and visually handicapped. A consequence of the discussed themes there are two directions which should be done in the next years. One direction is obvious. The tools must be improved and research and development work should be extended to all groups of handicapped (even if they are numerically not so large as for instancetheblindorvisuallyhandicappedpersons). Ontheothersideinthearea of social implications there is an increasing demand on social science studies on overall computer use among disabled persons. Because sources are in principle missing today about disabled persons work tasks, research in this ?eld must begin by trying to survey this aspect. Particular attention should be paid to the extent and character of computer use among the handicapped in work life. There are a lot of questions, which should be answered during the next years for reaching the aim of rehabilitation. ” Fifteen years later the 9th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (Paris, 2004) o?ered a comprehensive and deepened view on general awareness,special research and individual applications conce- ing disabled people and their participation in our society.

• Intercultural Communicative Competence
• Internet
• Web
• computer science
• human-computer interaction
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• information society
• multimedia
• ubiquitous computing

• Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria

  Klaus Miesenberger

• Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

  Joachim Klaus

• fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang L. Zagler

• INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris cedex 05, France

  Dominique Burger

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