Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Part II 12th International Conference, ICCHP 2010, Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2010. Proceedings

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than 40 countries from all over the world to this year’s ICCHP. Since the late 1980s, it has been ICCHP’s mission to support and reflect development in the field of “Assistive Technologies,” eAccessibility and eInclusion. With a focus on scientific quality, ICCHP has become an important reference in our field. The 2010 conference and this collection of papers once again fulfilled this mission. The International Programme Committee, comprising 106 experts from all over the world, selected 147 full and 44 short papers out of 328 abstracts submitted to ICCHP. This acceptance ratio of about half of the submissions demonstrates our strict pursuit of scientific quality both of the programme and in particular of the proceedings in your hands. An impressive number of experts agreed to organize “Special Thematic Sessions” (STS) for ICCHP 2010. These STS help to bring the meeting into sharper focus in several key areas. In turn, this deeper level of focus helps to collate a state of the art and mainstream technical, social, cultural and political developments.

People with Specific Learning and Cognitive Problems: ICT, AT and HCI.- Methodological Considerations for Involving SpLD Practitioners and Specialists in Designing Interactive Learning Systems.- Involving Users in the Design of ICT Aimed to Improve Education, Work, and Leisure for Users with Intellectual Disabilities.- PDA Software Aimed at Improving Workplace Adaptation for People with Cognitive Disabilities.- EasyICT: A Framework for Measuring ICT-Skills of People with Cognitive Disabilities.- Towards an Interactive Screening Program for Developmental Dyslexia: Eye Movement Analysis in Reading Arabic Texts.- Developing a Multimedia Environment to Aid in Vocalization for People on the Autism Spectrum: A User-Centered Design Approach.- The Performance of Mouse Proficiency for Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities.- When Words Fall Short: Helping People with Aphasia to Express.- People with Motor Disabilities: HCI and Rehabilitation.- MarkerMouse: Mouse Cursor Control Using a Head-Mounted Marker.- Using Triaxial Acceleration Sensors as Input Devices for Disabled Persons.- Canceling Interference Caused by Tremors in Joystick Controller: Study Case in a Power Wheelchair.- Developing Rehabilitation Robots for the Brain Injured.- A Rehabilitation Method with Visual and Haptic Guidance for Children with Upper Extremity Disability.- SSVEP Based Brain-Computer Interface for Robot Control.- People with Motor Disabilities: How to Improve Text Input.- Text Composing Software for Disabled People, Using Blink and Motion Detection.- Augmented and Alternative Communication System Based on Dasher Application and an Accelerometer.- Evaluation of WordTree System with Motor Disabled Users.- Evaluation of SpreadKey System with Motor Impaired Users.- An Integrated Text Entry System Design for Severe Physical Disabilities.- Qanti: A Software Tool for Quick Ambiguous Non-standard Text Input.- A Prototype Scanning System with an Ambiguous Keyboard and a Predictive Disambiguation Algorithm.- An Ambiguous Keyboard Based on "Character Graphical Association" for the Severely Physically Handicapped.- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Accessible Information and Education.- The Deaf and Online Comprehension Texts, How Can Technology Help?.- Extraction of Displayed Objects Corresponding to Demonstrative Words for Use in Remote Transcription.- E-Scribe: Ubiquitous Real-Time Speech Transcription for the Hearing-Impaired.- SportSign: A Service to Make Sports News Accessible to Deaf Persons in Sign Languages.- Synote: Accessible and Assistive Technology Enhancing Learning for All Students.- Teaching English to Deaf Adults: “SignOnOne” – An Online Course for Beginners.- Deaf People: AT for Sign Language.- A Web Based Platform for Sign Language Corpus Creation.- Context Analysis of Universal Communication through Local Sign Languages Applying Multivariate Analysis.- Toward Automatic Sign Language Recognition from Web3D Based Scenes.- Introducing Arabic Sign Language for Mobile Phones.- Sign Language Interpreter Module: Accessible Video Retrieval with Subtitles.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: Mobility and Interaction without Sight.- Real-Time Walk Light Detection with a Mobile Phone.- An Ultrasonic Blind Guidance System for Street Crossings.- Pedestrian Navigation System Using Tone Gradient and Robotic GIS.- MOST-NNG: An Accessible GPS Navigation Application Integrated into the MObile Slate Talker (MOST) for the Blind.- Improving Computer Vision-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind Persons with Context Information.- Computer Vision-Based Door Detection for Accessibility of Unfamiliar Environments to Blind Persons.- Development and Installation of Programmable Light-Emitting Braille Blocks.- FLIPPS for the Blind - An Object Detector for Medium Distances Using Concerted Fingertip Stimulation.- Camera Based Target Acquisition Augmented with Phosphene Sensations.- A Mobile Phone Application Enabling Visually Impaired Users to Find and Read Product Barcodes.- A Model to Develop Videogames for Orientation and Mobility.- Underestimated Cerebral Visual Impairment Requires Innovative Thinking When Using AT.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: Rehabilitation and Social Skills.- Eye Tracking for Low Vision Aids - Toward Guiding of Gaze.- Assistive Technologies as Effective Mediators in Interpersonal Social Interactions for Persons with Visual Disability.- Clothes Matching for Blind and Color Blind People.- A Basic Inspection of Wall-Climbing Support System for the Visually Challenged.- Makeup Support System for Visually Impaired Persons: Overview of System Functions.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: HCI.- WebTrax: Visualizing Non-visual Web Interactions.- A Context-Based Grammar Generation in Mixed Initiative Dialogue System for Visually Impaired.- Design and Development of Spoken Dialog Systems Incorporating Speech Synthesis of Viennese Varieties.- Methods for the Visually Impaired to Retrieve Audio Information Efficiently.- Binocular Vision Impairments Therapy Supported by Contactless Eye-Gaze Tracking System.- Realization of Direct Manipulation for Visually Impaired on Touch Panel Interface.- Inspired by Sharp Vision: The Full HD Desktop Video Magnifier “Eagle”.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: Access to Mathematics.- Non-sequential Mathematical Notations in the LAMBDA System.- MathML to ASCII-Braille and Hierarchical Tree Converter.- Tactile Graphic Tool for Portable Digital Pad.- Spoken Mathematics Using Prosody, Earcons and Spearcons.- On Necessity of a New Method to Read Out Math Contents Properly in DAISY.- Innovative Methods for Accessing Mathematics by Visually Impaired Users.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: Designing Haptic Interaction for a Collaborative World.- ICCHP Keynote: Designing Haptic Interaction for a Collaborative World.- Improving the Accessibility of ASCII Graphics for the Blind Students.- Development of a Musical Score System Using Body-Braille.- Analysis of Awareness while Touching the Tactile Figures Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.- Development of Directly Manipulable Tactile Graphic System with Audio Support Function.- AutOMathic Blocks: Supporting Learning Games for Young Blind Students.- Audio-Haptic Browser for a Geographical Information System.- A Graphical Tactile Screen-Explorer.- Reading Braille and Tactile Ink-Print on a Planar Tactile Display.- Enhancing Single Touch Gesture Classifiers to Multitouch Support.- User-Interface Filter for Two-Dimensional Haptic Interaction.- Improving Screen Magnification Using the HyperBraille Multiview Windowing Technique.- Blind and Partially Sighted People: Three-Dimensional Tactile Models for Blind People and Recognition of 3D Objects by Touch.- Three-Dimensional Tactile Models for Blind People and Recognition of 3D Objects by Touch: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Models of Mathematically Defined Curved Surfaces for Tactile Learning.- Enlarged Skeleton Models of Plankton for Tactile Teaching.- Reproduction of Tactile Paintings for Visual Impairments Utilized Three-Dimensional Modeling System and the Effect of Difference in the Painting Size on Tactile Perception.- Tactile Map Automated Creation System to Enhance the Mobility of Blind Persons—Its Design Concept and Evaluation through Experiment.- Development of Tactile Graphics Production Software for Three-Dimensional Projections.- Comprehending and Making Drawings of 3D Objects by Visually Impaired People: Research on Drawings of Geometric Shapes by Various Methods of Projection.- Ageing: HCI Usability (HCI4AGING).- Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering for Elderly (HCI4AGING): Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- A Device to Evaluate Broadcast Background Sound Balance Using Loudness for Elderly Listeners.- Automatic Live Monitoring of Communication Quality for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners.- Portrait: Portraying Individuality.- Mental Models of Menu Structures in Diabetes Assistants.- Touch Scr