Designing a more inclusive world /
Designing inclusively is no longer an option for companies. It is a business essential. Global populations are getting older, legislation is increasingly prohibitive of unnecessary exclusion and consumer attitudes are beginning to change. Exclusivity is out, inclusivity is in. Research communities t...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Springer,
[2004]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- I Design Issues for Universal Access and Assistive Technology: Is Universal Design a Critical Theory? Cross-Market Product and Service Innovation
- the DBA Challenge Example; Introducing User-centred Design Methods into Design Education; Comparing Product Assessment Methods for Inclusive Design; Virtual Learning Environments: Improving Accessibility Using Profiling; Assessment, Insight and Awareness in Design for Users with Special Needs; New Cognitive Capability Scales For Inclusive Product Design
- II Enabling Computer Access and New Technologies: An AAC-Enabled Internet: From User Requirements to Guidelines; Gathering Requirements for Mobile Devices Using Focus Groups with Older People; Devices and Desires: Identifying the Acceptability of AT to Older People; Beyond Functionality
- Product Semantics in Assistive Device Design; Consensus-Based Adaptive User Interface Implementation in Product Promotion; Transforming Musical Notations for Universal Access; Evaluation of Multimodal Techniques for Blind People to Track Moving Object; Movement Time Prediction for Tasks Assisted by Force-Feedback; Recognising Expression in Speech for Human Computer Interaction; Emotional Hearing Aid: An Assistive Tool for Children with Aspergers Syndrome; Assessing the Accessibility of Digital Television Set-Top Boxes
- III Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Robotics: Robot Technology in Rehabilitation and Support
- State of the Art; Powered Lower Limb Orthosis for Assisting Standing Up and Sitting Down Movements; Collaborative Control Aspects for Rehabilitation Robots; Effects of Repeated Exposure to a Humanoid Robot on Children with Autism; The Gloucester Smart House for People with Dementia
- User-Interface Aspects; Standards and the Dependability of Electronic Assistive Technology; If I had a Robot at Home -Peoples Representation of Domestic Robots
- Index of Contributors.