Online Information and Communication Services for People with Disabilities

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Information And Communication

scholarly journals Fostering the Creation of Personalized Content for Cultural Visits

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7401
Author(s):  
Riccardo De Benedictis ◽  
Carlo De Medio ◽  
Augusto Palombini ◽  
Gabriella Cortellessa ◽  
Carla Limongelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intelligent Tutoring System ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Aggregate Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual

Among more dramatic effects, the COVID-19 scenario also raised the need for new online information and communication services, promoting the spread of software solutions whose usefulness will last well beyond the pandemic situation. Particularly in the cultural heritage domain, it has been unveiled the relevance of new AI-based approaches, able to dynamically aggregate information and making them available for a customized fruition aimed to the individual cultural growth. Here, we integrate machine learning techniques for the automatic generation of contents for an intelligent tutoring system grounded on automated planning techniques. We present a solution for semantic, intelligent creation of personalized cultural contents, born as a lesson-making assistant, but developed as to become a multi-function “cultural crossover”, useful in the frame of a wide range of planning, dissemination, and managing activities for cultural heritage contents.

AsTeRICS

2014 ◽  
pp. 154-179
Author(s):  
Klaus Miesenberger ◽  
Gerhard Nussbaum ◽  
Roland Ossmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Motor Disabilities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Easy Integration ◽  
Efficient Software

The authors outline the potential of sensor technology for people with disabilities and those people with motor disabilities in general. First the authors describe how people with disabilities interact with the environment using specialized Assistive Technologies (AT) to interface modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) via the standardized Human-Computer Interface (HCI). The authors discuss the state-of-the-art and emerging sensor technology and how it enhances the potential of AT facilitated interaction with ICT/HCI regarding two domains: a) Sensor technology embedded in the environment providing flexible and adaptable means of interaction and b) sensor technology for better, more flexible and efficient application of skills of people with disabilities as AT solutions. Based on this analysis the authors advocate for changing AT practice in terms of assessment and service provision, but also R&D to recognize the extended potential provided by sensor technology to exploit presently unused or neglected skills of users. The authors underline the need to make AT solutions more flexible, adaptable, and affordable. the authors argue, in view of the potential of sensor technology, that there is an increasing need for an efficient software framework allowing an easy integration of sensor technology into AT solutions or even individual AT service provision. Finally the authors present the AsTeRICS framework as an example of an extendable AT construction set for an open source and crowed sourcing approach for a more user-centered, easy, fast, and economic implementation of sensor based or sensor enhanced AT solutions.

ICT, Media, and the Egyptian Revolution

2015 ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Ahmed El Gody
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Street Politics ◽  
Multimedia Material ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Media Organizations

The utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Egypt has irrevocably changed the nature of the traditional Egyptian public sphere. The Egyptian online society can be viewed as a multiplicity of networks. These networks have developed, transformed and expanded over time, operating across all areas of life. Nonetheless, in essence they are socio-political and cultural in origin. Network communication changed the way audiences consumed news, with traditional media –especially independent and opposition– starting to utilize ICTs to access online information to develop their media content, in order to escape government control. Several media organizations also started to expand their presence online so that, as well as providing news content, they also provided readers with a ‘space' to interact amongst themselves and with media organizations. Audiences started to provide detailed descriptions of Egyptian street politics, posting multimedia material, generating public interest, and reinforcing citizen power – and, hence, democratic capacity.

Level-Based Development of E-Government Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 1742-1752
Author(s):  
Penelope Markellou ◽  
Angeliki Panayiotaki ◽  
Athanasios Tsakalidis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Digital Channels

As the Web is growing exponentially, the way of provision governmental information and services has been changed by the newly supplied technological capacities and digital channels. More and more governments all over the world are trying to acquire an electronic profile, in order to offer advanced services to their users (citizens and businesses). Two basic factors have significant contribution to this direction. The first considers the continuous increase of the users’ daily needs (e.g., information searching, certificate requesting). Traditionally, the completion of these tasks implies a lot of valuable time to be lost in the tracking of responsible actor and in the waiting in queues. The second one refers to the ongoing access of the users with the Internet. This new way of communication facilitates the transactions and helps in providing better public services. It is clear that e-government’s successful development and operation demands proper design, which will comprise the basis for its application. Information and communication technologies (ICT) may contribute essentially to this direction, as long as government and users adopt them under the framework of a broader reorganization of the public sector. This adaptation can be implemented gradually in levels, which will enable the unobstructed data flow from/to government and will give the opportunity to citizens and businesses to obtain the highest access to the provided governmental services. Only under these circumstances, this transition will lead to a series of strategic, administrative and operational benefits (NOIE, 2003; OGC, 2003), for example, best coverage of users’ needs, cost and time savings, and so forth. This article is intended to present a level-based approach for the development of e-government services, starting from the lowest one to the highest and more complicated. Following gradually this sequence of technological levels and incorporating with strategy, coordination, and know-how, an organization can realize the vision of e-government, provide reliable online information and services to their users and improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

ICT, CoLs, CoPs, and Virtual Communities

2008 ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Antonio Cartelli
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Knowledge Strategies ◽  
Different Levels

Every day, information and communication technologies (ICT) are extending their influence on knowing and transmitting knowledge. They act on humankind at different levels: the individual, the society, and the community/organization. The Internet more than other instruments in the past is changing human customs and knowledge strategies mostly due to the online information systems developed during last few years.

scholarly journals Accessible Tourism in Natural Park Areas: A Social Network Analysis to Discard Barriers and Provide Information for People with Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piervito Bianchi ◽  
Giulio Mario Cappelletti ◽  
Elisabetta Mafrolla ◽  
Edgardo Sica ◽  
Roberta Sisto
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Information And Communication

Although regulations designed to meet the necessities of tourists with disabilities are allowing disables to travel more, they are still encountering barriers and discriminatory practices. A relevant obstacle in making the tourist policy effective is represented by the lack of information and communication about needs and expectations of disabled categories. In this context, the present paper focuses on the coproduction process of tourist public policies for disables by looking at the network that facilitates communication among the actors taking part in the process. We adopt the Social Network Analysis (SNA) to study the policy network, i.e., how public administrations and policy users (associations of citizens/people with disabilities and entrepreneurs) exchange information about the accessibility to the Gargano National Park, a protected natural area in the South of Italy. In particular, we investigate the role of entrepreneurial stakeholders in channeling information and the presence of policy brokers, i.e., stakeholders that spread the policies to the whole network. Our findings show that a limited number of actors involved in granting accessibility to tourists with disabilities is engaged in information exchanges. Moreover, information flows are guided by only one public administration that plays, therefore, a key role in the implementation of policies that support the parks’ accessibility.

scholarly journals Convergence as a Mechanism of Formation and Development of the Information and Communication Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra N. Nikolayeva ◽  
Elena A. Antipova ◽  
Larisa G. Vasilyeva ◽  
Svetlana V. Petrova ◽  
Elena V. Moiseyeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanism Of Formation ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Information And Communication

scholarly journals ‘Just having a computer doesn’t make sense’: The digital divide from the perspective of mothers with a low socio-economic position

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2347-2365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole S Goedhart ◽  
Jacqueline EW Broerse ◽  
Rolinka Kattouw ◽  
Christine Dedding
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Services ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Reinforcing Factors ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Information Services ◽  
Economic Position

The introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been shown to play a role in reinforcing existing social inequalities. This study aims to gain insights into the perspectives, experiences and needs of disadvantaged groups with respect to ICT. In the Netherlands, a relatively large and important group of non-users are mothers with a low socio-economic position (SEP). Little attention has been paid to understanding why mothers with a low SEP scarcely use ICTs. In an explorative participatory study in Amsterdam, using observations, interviews and focus groups, our results show that reinforcing factors related to poverty, motherhood, the complexity of ICT and being first-generation immigrant influence access. The mothers’ needs are multifaceted and go beyond the simple distribution of ICT devices. ICT education should be tailored and integrated into existing social services and the daily lives of the mothers. Moreover, policymakers should pay attention to adapting the online information services to the mothers’ strengths.

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