Adaptable user interfaces for people with special needs

1993 ◽  
pp. 413-414
Author(s):  
Christian Bühler ◽  
Helmut Heck ◽  
Rainer Wallbruch
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
User Interfaces

Computers and Telecommunications in the Year 2000 - Viewing the Future, Empowering People, and Internationalizing User Interfaces

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 348-352
Author(s):  
Arnold Lund ◽  
Lila Laux ◽  
Nuray Aykin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technology Users ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Users With Special Needs

In this, the first of three sets of position papers for the CTG-CSTG co-sponsored symposium on Computers and Telecommunications in the Year 2000, Arnold Lund describes a view of the future, based on technologies available today which, however, have yet to be integrated. Following his presentation, Lila Laux provides a paper reminding us that computers and telecommunications in the future will need to accommodate a wider variety of users, if we are to ensure that the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and other technology users with special needs are not to become an information-poor underclass in our world. Finally, Nuray Aykin discusses the problems and challenges we face in internationalizing and localizing user interfaces so that software developed in the United States can be successfully marketed abroad.

User modeling for people with special needs

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Kurschl ◽  
Mirjam Augstein ◽  
Thomas Burger ◽  
Claudia Pointner
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Modeling ◽  
User Study ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Modeling Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Touchless Interaction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach where a novel user modeling wizard for people with motor impairments is used to gain a deeper understanding of very specific (touch-based and touchless) interaction patterns. The findings are used to set up and fill a user model which allows to automatically derive an application- and user-specific configuration for natural user interfaces. Design/methodology/approach – Based on expert knowledge in the domain of software/user interfaces for people with special needs, a test-case –based user modeling tool was developed. Task-based user tests were conducted with seven users for the touch-based interaction scenario and with five users for the touchless interaction scenario. The participants are all people with different motor and/or cognitive impairments. Findings – The paper describes the results of different test cases that were designed to model users’ touch-based and touchless interaction capabilities. To evaluate the tool’s findings, experts additionally judged the participants’ performance (their opinions were compared to the tool’s findings). The results suggest that the user modeling tool could quite well capture users’ capabilities. Social implications – The paper presents a tool that can be used to model users’ interaction capabilities. The approach aims at taking over some of the (very time-consuming) configuration tasks consultants have to do to configure software according to the needs of people with disabilities. This can lead to a wider accessibility of software, especially in the area of gesture-based user interaction. Originality/value – Part of the approach has been published in the proceedings of the Interactional Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia 2014. Significant additions have been made since (e.g. all of the touchless interaction part of the approach and the related user study).

From Volunteering to Academic Programming: A Case Example

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Gill ◽  
Sneha Bharadwaj ◽  
Nancy Quick ◽  
Sarah Wainscott ◽  
Paula Chance
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The University

A speech-language pathology master's program that grew out of a partnership between the University of Zambia and a U.S.-based charitable organization, Connective Link Among Special needs Programs (CLASP) International, has just been completed in Zambia. The review of this program is outlined according to the suggested principles for community-based partnerships, a framework which may help evaluate cultural relevance and sustainability in long-term volunteer efforts (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998).

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