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Smart University: Software Systems for Students with Disabilities

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Smart universities, smart classrooms and smart education are the wave of the future in a highly technological society. One of the distinctive features of a smart university is its ability of adaptation to and smooth accommodation of various types of students/learners such as regular students and life-long learners, in-classroom/local and remote/online students/learners, regular students and special students, i.e. students with various types of disabilities including physical, visual, hearing, speech, cognitive and other types of impairments. This chapter presents the outcomes of an ongoing research project aimed at systematic identification, analysis, and testing of available open source and commercial text-to-voice, voice-to-text and gesture recognition software systems—those that could significantly benefit students with disabilities. Based on obtained outcomes of completed research and analysis of designated systems we identified and recommended top text-to-voice, voice-to-text and gesture recognition software systems for implementation in smart universities.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Cristopher Jones, Dean of the LAS College, and Sandra Shumaker, Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Programs at Bradley University for their strong support of our research, design and development activities in smart university and smart education areas.

The authors would like to thank Lynne Branham, Interim Director and Students with Disabilities Counselor, and Dr. Susan Rapp, Associate Director and Students with Disabilities, Center for Learning and Access, Bradley University, for active participation in project related activities and collaboration with project team members.

The authors also would like to thank Ms. Aishwarya Doddapaneni, Ms. Supraja Talasila, Mr. Siva Margapuri, and Mr. Harsh Mehta—the research associates of the InterLabs Research Institute and/or graduate students of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Bradley University—for their valuable contributions into this research project.

This project is partially supported by grant REC # 1326809 from Bradley University.

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    Jeffrey P. Bakken

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, and InterLabs Research Institute, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA

    Vladimir L. Uskov, Suma Varsha Kuppili, Alexander V. Uskov, Namrata Golla & Narmada Rayala

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Bakken, J.P., Uskov, V.L., Kuppili, S.V., Uskov, A.V., Golla, N., Rayala, N. (2018). Smart University: Software Systems for Students with Disabilities. In: Uskov, V., Bakken, J., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Universities. SEEL 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59454-5_4

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