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Accessibility /Education/Children
“Welcome to the home of Skid software, which is designed to help kids communicate and learn. Children who cannot speak properly, including many with cerebral palsy and autism, are denied access to a regular school, even though they could communicate in other ways, for instance using a computer. It is such other ways, that Skid explores.”
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A video of a child with cerebral palsy using Skid
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Key Phrase: accessible software, software for children with disabilities
  • Date: December 15, 2008
  • Source: SKID

Accessiblity/Education/Textbooks
To make education more accessible, a professor in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is spearheading an effort to produce free online textbooks using a modified version of the Wiki software that powers the Web site Wikipedia.
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Key Phrase: free online textbooks
  • Date: September 1, 2006
  • Source: University of Georgia

Accessibility /Education/Distance Learning
“Distance learning allows the learner to overcome traditional barriers to learning such as location, disabilities, time constraints and familial obligations,” Strickland said. “However, not every learner will be successful in a distance learning environment.”
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Key Phrase: distance learning
  • Date: February 25, 2008
  • Source: University of Missouri

Accessibility/Vision/Auto-focus
great news for anyone with imperfect vision, for it opens the way for next-generation "smart" eyeglasses -- glasses with built-in automatic focus
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Key Phrase: glasses with auto-focus
  • Date: April 4, 2006
  • Source: University of Arizona

Accessibility/Vision/Blindness
The new keyboard, which connects to the PC through the USB port, will make using a computer much easier for blind people who are accustomed to using Braille typewriters, since this is the first Braille keyboard to combine the function and movement keys of a conventional keyboard with eight Braille keys that allow the user to write in any language.
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Key Phrase: braille keyboard
  • Date: March 6, 2006
  • Source: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles

Accessibility/Vision/Eye-Tracking
A new system makes it possible to guide the computer mouse with your eyes. The technology is designed to facilitate the task of maintenance technicians and make it easier for paraplegics to work at the PC. A software program interprets the user’s pupil movements.
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Key Phrase: pupil guided mouse
  • Date: September, 2006
  • Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Accessibility/Vision/Tunnel Vision
a visual aid they invented promises to improve the visual abilities of people with tunnel vision. In the first study to evaluate this small high tech device, the research team saw a significant increase in the effectiveness and speed with which visually impaired individuals found objects.
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Key Phrase: runway safety
  • Date: NA
  • Source: HFES, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society





 
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