Designing a More Inclusive World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Keates, Simeon; Robinson, Peter; Langdon, Patrick; Clarkson, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recent legislation in many countries requires the use of technology to enhance the access to everyday facilities for disadvantaged people. This legislation produces a ready made and hungry market for those trained and researching in relevant inclusive technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857293725
• Artikelnr.: 44183865

Autorenporträt

Simeon Keates, University of Cambridge, UK / John Clarkson, University of Cambridge, UK / Patrick Langdon, University of Cambridge, UK / Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK

Inhaltsangabe

I Design Issues for Universal Access and Assistive Technology.- 1. Is Universal Design a Critical Theory?.- 2. Cross-market Product and Service Innovation - the DBA Challenge Example.- 3. Introducing User-Centred Design Methods into Design Education.- 4. Comparing Product Assessment Methods for Inclusive Design.- 5. Virtual Learning Environments: Improving Accessibility Using Profiling.- 6. Assessment, Insight and Awareness in Design for Users with Special Needs.- 7. New Cognitive Capability Scales For Inclusive Product Design.- II Enabling Computer Access and New Technologies.- 8. An AAC-Enabled Internet: From User Requirements to Guidelines.- 9. Gathering Requirements for Mobile Devices Using Focus Groups with Older People.- 10. Devices and Desires: Identifying the Acceptability of AT to Older People.- 11. Beyond Functionality - Product Semantics in Assistive Device Design.- 12. Consensus-based Adaptive User Interface Implementation in Product Promotion.- 13. Transforming Musical Notations for Universal Access.- 14. Evaluation of Multimodal Techniques for Blind People to Track Moving Objects.- 15. Movement Time Prediction for Tasks Assisted by Force-feedback.- 16. Recognising Expression in Speech for Human Computer Interaction.- 17. Emotional Hearing Aid: An Assistive Tool for Children with Asperger's Syndrome.- 18. Fostering Universal Access: Lessons from Telecommunications and Disability.- 19. Assessing the Accessibility of Digital Television Set-Top Boxes.- III Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Robotics.- 20. Robot Technology in Rehabilitation and Support -State of the Art.- 21. Powered Lower Limb Orthosis for Assisting Standing Up and Sitting Down Movements.- 22. Collaborative Control Aspects for Rehabilitation Robots.- 23. Effects of Repeated Exposureto a Humanoid Robot on Children with Autism.- 24. The Gloucester Smart House for People with Dementia -User-Interface Aspects.- 25. Standards and the Dependability of Electronic Assistive Technology.- 26. If I had a Robot at Home... Peoples' Representation of Domestic Robots.- Index of Contributors.