Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments: AAATE 2009, Volume 25 Assistive Technology Research Series

The concept of assistive technology is moving away from adopting the most appropriate devices to overcome the limitations of users, to the designing and setting up of total environments in which people can live, supported by suitable services and additional support devices integrated within the environment. These two perspectives are deeply intertwined, both from technological and social points of view, and the relationship between them currently represent the primary challenge for the field of assistive technology. This publication covers the proceedings of the 10th European Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), the organization which stimulates the advancement of assistive technology for the benefit of people with disabilities, including elderly people. This conference seeks to bridge the gap between these two complementary approaches, providing an opportunity to clarify differences and common points and to better define future direction. This publication is a significant contribution to the advancement of inclusion for people living with a disability everywhere.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences Title page......Page 2 Preface......Page 6 Conference Organisation......Page 8 Local Organising Committee......Page 9 Scientific Committee......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 Technology for Motor Limitations 1......Page 28 AAC and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Literature Review and Aspects of Quality of Life and Service Delivery......Page 30 A Systematized Approach to Provide Assistive Technology (AT) for Augmentative Communication, to Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)......Page 35 Selecting AAC Devices for Persons with ALS Taking into Consideration the Disease Progression......Page 39 Assistive Robotics in Robotics for Healthcare, Roadmap Study for the EC......Page 45 A Proposal for User Needs' Extractive Methodology in Development of Assistive Technology – Based on a Variety of Disabilities......Page 50 Technology for Motor Limitations 2......Page 56 Development of Assistive Functions for Joysticks of Electric Wheelchairs......Page 58 EMG Signal Controlled Pneumatic Gripper for Mouthsticks......Page 63 Evaluation of Failsafe Wheelchair Brake for Users with Memory Loss in Clinical Use: Short-Term Evaluation of Function......Page 68 Mobility-Related Participation Outcomes of Rollator Interventions......Page 74 Supporting Inclusion and Independence: Compliant Seating for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Whole Body Extensor Spasms......Page 79 Information Support to Mobility......Page 84 Study on the Veering Tendency of Persons with Visual Impairment......Page 86 Mobility Aid in Urban Scenarios for Visually Impaired People......Page 91 Staying in the Crosswalk: A System for Guiding Visually Impaired Pedestrians at Traffic Intersections......Page 96 Designing a Location Based Service for Visually Impaired People: MWA Guide......Page 101 A Step Forward Towards Increasing the Mobility and Participation of People with Disabilities Utilizing Satellite Navigation Technology Applications......Page 106 Healthcare and Rehabilitation......Page 112 Health @ Home: A New Homecare Model for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure......Page 114 Telecare Service Deployment – Case Study......Page 119 Effects of Lower Limb Prosthesis on Daily Living – A Systematic Review......Page 126 Technology Trends: A Focus on Sensors and Smart Materials in the Domain of Care Applications......Page 131 High Spatial Resolution Dry-Electrode Surface EMG Acquisition System......Page 136 Towards a New Concept to the Neurological Recovery for Knee Stabilization After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Based on Surface Electrical Stimulation......Page 141 Human Computer Interfaces for People with Motor Limitations......Page 146 The NADIA Terminal User Interface for People with Motor Disabilities......Page 148 Automatically Adjusting Pointing Device Settings Enhances User Double-Click Performance......Page 154 A Study of Two-Inputs Scanning Methods to Enhance the Communication Rate......Page 159 Increasing Software Keyboard Key by Recycling Needless Ones......Page 165 Evaluation of Unambiguous Virtual Keyboards with Character Prediction......Page 171 Robotics......Page 178 Affective Robotics for Assisting Elderly People......Page 180 Developing the IROMEC Robot for Play: Results from the First Experimental Trials......Page 186 Robots as Social Mediators: Field Trials with Children with Special Needs......Page 192 QuoVADis Project: Functionalities of the Robot and Data-Processing Architecture......Page 197 Methodological Framework to Set Up Educational and Therapy Sessions with Robotic Technology: The IROMEC Proposal......Page 203 Brain Computer Interfaces......Page 210 BCI Applications for People with Disabilities: Defining User Needs and User Requirements......Page 212 Efficient Algorithms for a Brain Computer Interface: Performance Studies......Page 217 Implementation of Error Detection into the Graz-Brain-Computer Interface, the Interaction Error Potential......Page 222 Controlling Domotic Appliances via a "Dynamical" P300-Based Brain Computer Interface......Page 227 Technology for Sensory and Cognitive Limitations......Page 232 Accessibility for the Blind: Rendering the Layout of the Web Page for a Tactile Experience......Page 234 odt2dtbook: OpenOffice.org Save-as-Daisy Extension......Page 239 Visualization of Personal Memory for Cognitive Support......Page 244 How Assistive Technology Support Cognitive Disability, Secure Active Living for Persons with Dementia and Enhance New Interfaces Between Formal and Informal Care in the Area of Dementia......Page 249 e-Services......Page 256 Information Services on Public Transport for People with Reduced Mobility – A Survey Among Public Transport Providers......Page 258 A Model of Peer to Peer Multi-Agent Information System to Support the Impaired Users Mobility......Page 263 IT Support at Home – What Do You Do when the Computer Is on the Blink?......Page 269 Miming Navigation Pages with a Personal Remote Control Device for the Aged......Page 274 The Assistive Technology Internet Café......Page 279 Service Delivery......Page 284 An On-Line System Supporting the Provision of Assistive Technology Products to Individual Users Through the National Health Service......Page 286 The ICT Assistive Devices Register: An Instrument to Support Appropriate Provision of Assistive Technology......Page 291 Benefits of an On-Line Library of Electronic Assistive Technology on AT Services in Ireland......Page 296 Plain Language Search......Page 301 Designing an Internet Search Engine on Disability Issues: Results of a Survey of the Users' Information Needs......Page 307 Ambient Assisted Living 1......Page 312 Mainstream Services for Elderly and Disabled People at Home......Page 314 Systematic Review: Activity Outcomes of Environmental Control Systems and Smart Home Technology......Page 319 The Meaning of Living with or without Environmental Control Systems for People with Tetraplegia: An Irish Focus Group Study......Page 324 Wireless and 1-Wire Solutions for Inclusive Home Environment of Seniors......Page 330 Internet-Based Home Monitoring and Control......Page 336 Ambient Assisted Living 2......Page 342 A Training Apartment with a Set of Electronic Memory Aids for Patients with Memory Difficulties After Acquired Brain Injury......Page 344 Integrating Fall Detection into a Home Control System......Page 349 A Video-Based Fall Detector Sensor Well Suited for a Data-Fusion Approach......Page 354 Autonomamente: A Multimodal Domotic Application and a Social Network to Support Autonomous Living of Persons with Cognitive Disabilities......Page 359 Case Study on a Pilot Project for Home Care Monitoring Health Status of Elderly: Lessons Learnt and Going to Scale......Page 365 Visual Tools to Select a Layout for an Adapted Living Area......Page 372 Aging Aspects......Page 378 User-Centred Physiological Emotion Detection for Assistive Technology......Page 380 Digital and Social Inclusion from Innovative D-TV Integration......Page 385 Development by a Field-Based Method of a Daily-Plan Indicator for Persons with Dementia......Page 391 Support in Everyday Activities with a Home-Based Electronic Memory Aid for Persons with Memory Impairments......Page 396 SHARE-it Scenarios......Page 401 Web for e-Inclusion......Page 408 Web Accessibility and Older People......Page 410 Is Flash Really Accessible when Interacting Through Screen Readers?......Page 415 A Design-for-All Approach Towards Multimodal Accessibility of Mathematics......Page 420 Navigation Assistant for Blind People to Explore Chemical Formulas......Page 425 Assessment 1......Page 430 Design and Outcome Measures in Trials of Assistive Technologies for People with Dementia: Methodological and Ethical Challenges......Page 432 An Objective Means of Establishing Optimal Information Transmission Rates in Individuals with Disability......Page 438 Development and Reliability Testing of the Nordic Housing Enabler – An Instrument for Accessibility Assessment of the Physical Housing......Page 443 The Partial Concurrent Thinking Aloud: A New Usability Evaluation Technique for Blind Users......Page 448 Users' Perceptions of Environmental Control Systems......Page 453 Assessment 2......Page 460 Assessment of an Assistive Technology that Allows Driving a Car with Low Vision......Page 462 Use and Prescription of Powered Electronic Wheelchairs for Patients with Severe Acquired Brain Injury......Page 467 Analysis of Prosthetic Gait on Stairs, Slopes and Uneven Terrain......Page 472 Analysis of Ground Reaction Forces in Walker Assisted Gait......Page 477 Evaluation of Body Vibrations During Manual Wheelchair Running over Sidewalk Surfaces and Curbs – Standardization and Promotion of New Curbs with Universal Design......Page 482 Aspects of Visual Limitations......Page 488 Study About the Walk Supporting System Using LED for People with Low Vision at Night......Page 490 Study on Illuminance Dependency of Color Identification Characteristics for Persons with Low Visual Capacity......Page 495 Study on Background Illuminance and Color Conspicuity Characteristics for Persons with Low Visual Capacity......Page 500 A Study on Sensations of Walking-Distance and Orientation of the Blind......Page 505 Interface Challenges for the Visually Impaired......Page 510 Aspects of Hearing Limitations......Page 518 Evaluation of the Emergent Information Reading Strategy in Bilingual Presentation of Japanese Sign Language and Japanese Text......Page 520 A New Evaluation Approach for Sign Language Machine Translation......Page 525 Universal Combined System: Speech Recognition, Emotion Recognition and Talking Head for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People......Page 530 An Analysis of the Phonological Database of Japanese Sign Language......Page 536 Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students......Page 537 Attitudes of Children with Hearing Impairment Towards Assistive Technology in Pakistan......Page 542 Design for All......Page 548 Managing the Process of Design-for-All......Page 550 CMF4ALL: A Content Management Framework for ALL......Page 555 Promoting "Design for All" in the (e-)Tourism Industry: An Approach Towards Inclusion......Page 560 Organizing Research in Web 2.0 Era......Page 565 To Know and to Conserve the Heritage, Matching Rights and Needs! Contribution of New Pavements......Page 571 Matching Users and Technology......Page 576 Designing Reasonable Accommodation of the Workplace: A New Methodology Based on Risk Assessment......Page 578 Design of a MPT Based Instrument Supporting the Quality of Procurement of Assistive Technology......Page 584 The Adaptation and Use of the Italian Version of the Matching Assistive Technology and CHild (MATCH) Measure......Page 589 Designs on the Future: Linking Front Line AT Service Delivery with Product Design......Page 594 Approaches to Clinical Decision-Making in Assessment for Electronic Assistive Technology......Page 599 Users and Technology......Page 604 Increased User Involvement Through Free Choice of Assistive Technology......Page 606 Gathering and Applying Evidence in Computer Access Services......Page 611 User Perspective on Assistive Technology. A Qualitative Analysis of 55 Letters from Citizens Applying for Assistive Technology......Page 616 The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Outside of School for Boys and Girls with Motor Disabilities......Page 622 Evaluating the Long Term Outcomes of an Assistive Technology Training Course to Inform Service Development......Page 627 ICT for Education and Training......Page 632 MLG – Multimedia On-Line Lesson Generator......Page 634 Challenging Attitudes and Promoting Inclusion of High Tech Assistive Technology Users in Further Education......Page 640 Assistive Technology Devices in Educational Settings: Students' Perspective......Page 646 Music as an Enabler for Social Inclusion and Provision – The UMSIC Approach......Page 649 Distance Education and Training on Accessible Web Design......Page 655 Education and Inclusion......Page 660 Inclusive Education and ICT: Reflecting on Tools and Methods......Page 662 Using ICT to Enable Inclusive Teaching Practices in Higher Education......Page 667 How Schools View and Plan Technology for Inclusion: Results of a Project of the Italian Ministry of Education......Page 673 Creating an Inclusive Synergy Between User Focused and Environmental Approaches in Further and Higher Education......Page 679 Visual Impaired Students in the Portuguese Higher Education......Page 685 Entertainment and Education in Rehabilitation......Page 690 New Video Games Generations: Only Games or an Opportunity for Assistive Technology?......Page 692 Combining Location Based Services with Games Based Learning Approaches in Assistive Technology......Page 698 Multimodal Accessible Games for Visually Impaired Players......Page 704 Modeling Visitor-Exhibit Interaction at Dynamic Zoo and Aquarium Exhibits for Developing Real-Time Interpretation......Page 709 Accessible Game Console Interface for Upper Limbs and Mild Cognitive Impaired People......Page 715 e-Inclusion......Page 722 "The Accessibility Agency" – Promoting the Development of Inclusive Environments by Mainstreaming Accessibility Issues......Page 724 Assistive Technology or Mainstreaming of ICT? Yes, Please!......Page 730 How Many Positive Results on Inclusion Do We Need to Make Changes?......Page 735 Wireless Portable Computer Systems and Technologies for the Disabled and the Aged Towards an Accessible, Inclusive and Intelligent Metropolis of the Future: The South African Context......Page 740 Exploring the Use of Assistive Technology for Developing Countries and Minority Languages......Page 746 Turning Back Time for Inclusion Today as Well as Tomorrow......Page 750 Technology Transfer and Market......Page 756 Analysis of the AT ICT Industry in Europe......Page 758 Delivering the D in R&D: Increasing Product Outcomes from R&D Projects......Page 763 Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer: Making R&D Matter to Stakeholders......Page 769 An Innovations Broker that Increases Availability of Assistive Technology......Page 775 Modelling Assistive Technology Systems Using Coloured Petri Nets......Page 781 Economic Aspects......Page 786 A Macro Economic Cost-Benefit Model for the Assessment of Assistive Technology Future Development......Page 788 Assistive Technology Transfer to New EU Countries Market and Users......Page 794 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Methodological Consequences for Economic Analyses......Page 799 Inclusion – What Does It Cost and How Do We Measure This?......Page 804 A Qualitative Approach to Assess Cost-Outcomes in Interventions for Promoting Independent Living......Page 810 User Needs Standards......Page 816 Participation of Users with Disabilities in Standardization......Page 818 Educational Approach for User Training in Standardisation......Page 823 USEM Trainees at Work – First Experiences......Page 829 STAND4ALL: Training of Stakeholders on Consultations on Standardisation......Page 834 The "DfA@eInclusion" Project......Page 840 Design for All for eInclusion......Page 842 The "Raising the Floor" Project......Page 848 Raising the Floor: A Collaborative Open-Source Approach to Providing Access Languages and to All Economic Levels......Page 850 Web Accessibility Initiative......Page 856 Accelerating Web Accessibility: Migrating to WCAG 2.0 and Ensuring Vigilance over Emerging Technologies......Page 858 Best Practice in Education and Training......Page 862 Design for All @ eInclusion: Best Practice in Education and Training......Page 864 Universal Design in Third Level Design Teaching in Ireland......Page 869 Posters......Page 874 A Mobile Phone Wayfinding System for Visually Impaired Users......Page 876 A Study on Recognition of Tactile Walking Surface Indicators by White Cane......Page 877 Ability to Manage Everyday Technology: A Comparison of People with Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment and Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment......Page 878 Accessible 3D Game for Visually Impaired Students......Page 879 Adapting Linking Rules to the International Classification of Functioning as a Method for Representing Assistive Technology Knowledge......Page 880 An Accessible Web Searching: An On-Going Research Project......Page 881 Avatars@Home......Page 882 Clinical Experiences on Computer Access by Eye Gaze for Persons with Severe Motor Disabilities and Communication Difficulties......Page 883 Development of Digital Glass System to Support Tunnel Vision Person......Page 884 Does Electronic Assistive Technology Support Everyday Activities for People with Early Alzheimer's Disease?......Page 885 Enhancing Accessibility in Mobile Navigational Services......Page 886 Evaluation and Assistance for Disabled Persons Navigation with a Low Cost Electric Wheelchair Simulator......Page 887 Evaluation on Friction and Vibration for Sidewalk Environment – Toward Accessible and Safety Sidewalk for Pedestrians......Page 888 Eye Movements in Bilingual Emergency Message Reading for Deaf People......Page 889 Image Tool for AAC Materials......Page 890 Information and Communication Technology as a Tool to Increase Accessibility to Care......Page 891 ITSE-Assessment Model – A Tool for Evaluating User Satisfaction with Assistive Technology......Page 892 Japanese Sign Language Proficiency Test and its Electrical Expansion......Page 893 Moving Forward: AT in Egypt......Page 894 Disability and AT-ICT in Italy, France and Holland......Page 895 Note Taking System Based upon "Quantity Rather than Quality" Concept......Page 896 One Support and Care Getting Better Quality of His Life......Page 897 Optimized Interaction with Word Prediction List......Page 898 Portable System for Monitoring A.D.L., Including A.T. Use, in Urban Environments......Page 899 Sign Word Description Method for JSL Dictionaries over Internet......Page 900 Social Activity Made Possible Through Technology: Multi-Challenged Persons to Communicate/Influence Their Own Lives......Page 901 Technology for Elderly......Page 902 Technology for Elderly – Seniors and Internet......Page 903 Technology for Elderly – A Survey on 85 Years Old Persons' Use of Hearing-Aids and Subjective Hearing Loss......Page 904 Technology Meets Motor Impaired Children's Play: The State of the Art......Page 905 Text Messaging with Picture Symbols – Possibilities for Persons with Cognitive and Communicative Disabilities......Page 906 The Influence of the Exploration Interface on Blind Subjects' Mental Representation of Sonified Geographic Maps......Page 907 Two-Input Based Procedures Using a Single Device......Page 908 Usability Evaluation of BCIs......Page 909 Using Plain Language (Easy-to-Read) in Network Services......Page 910 Muscular Dystrophies Based Fitts' Model......Page 911 The Centro Protesi Inail's Project "Going Back Home"......Page 912 Subject Index......Page 914 Author Index......Page 920