The book is available as a single PDF file (3.6MB), or individual chapters can be accessed in PDF or HTML format below.
| Front cover | ||
| 1 Introduction | ||
| 2 Current examples of existing products and services for people with disabilities | ||
| 2.1 Introduction | ||
| 2.2 New technologies to help people with disabilities and elderly people | ||
| 2.2.1 Safe navigation with wireless technology | ||
| 2.2.2 Speech processing | ||
| 2.3 New remote services | ||
| 2.3.1 Novel broadband-based services: new opportunities for people with disabilities | ||
| 2.3.2 Access to video relay services through the Pocket Interpreter (3G) and Internet (IP) | ||
| 2.3.3 Convenient invocation of relay services | ||
| 2.3.4 Ways of using mobile telephones by people with dementia | ||
| 2.3.5 Implementation of an SMS-based emergency service in Finland | ||
| 2.4 Evolution of text telephony | ||
| 2.4.1 The recommendations of the Nordic countries regarding functionality for text telephony | ||
| 2.4.2 Mobile and IP-based text telephony ; Flexible text communication services in Sweden | ||
| 2.4.3 Mobile text telephony based on GPRS communications | ||
| 2.5 User participation in technology | ||
| 2.5.1 Example of procurement specifications: functional specification for terminal procurement in Sweden | ||
| 3 Smart home environment | ||
| 3.1 Introduction | ||
| 3.2 Smart home framework | ||
| 3.3 Smart home technology | ||
| 3.4 Products and services | ||
| 3.5 User interaction | ||
| 3.6 Realized projects | ||
| 3.7 Challenges | ||
| 4 Ambient Intelligence and implications for people with disabilities | ||
| 4.1 Introduction | ||
| 4.2 The ISTAG scenarios: a case study | ||
| 4.3 Ethical and legislative issues with regard to Ambient Intelligence | ||
| 5 The regulatory scene | ||
| 5.1 Regulation at the crossroads | ||
| 5.2 eAccessibility: European developments and targets | ||
| 6 The role of evaluation of accessibility | ||
| 6.1 Introduction | ||
| 6.2 Evaluation trends | ||
| 6.3 Mobile phone evaluation toolkit | ||
| 6.4 Case study: an example of how evaluation may change the design: ATM project in Portugal | ||
| 6.5 Recommendations | ||
| 6.6 Opportunities and challenges | ||
| 6.7 References | ||
| 7 What obstacles prevent practical broadband applications being produced and exploited? | ||
| 7.1 Executive summary | ||
| 7.2 Introduction to interactive management format | ||
| 7.3 Results | ||
| 7.4 Discussion of the results | ||
| 7.5 References | ||
| 8 From concept to reality | ||
| 8.1 New technologies | ||
| 8.2 The development process | ||
| 8.3 Legislation and regulation as drivers | ||
| 8.4 Conclusions | ||
| Appendices | ||
| I Scenarios for people who are not able to see | ||
| II Glossary of acronyms used in the book | ||
| III List of authors and members of COST 219ter | ||
| IV Further information |
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