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# CVHI-2007
Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments: Assistive Technology for All Ages

### Proceedings of the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments: Assistive Technology for All Ages (CVHI-2007)

### Granada, Spain, 28th - 31th August, 2007

Edited by

### Marion Hersh*
James Ohene-Djan (Web Editor)**

* Electronics & Electrical Engineering,
Rankine Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8LT
m.hersh@elec.gla.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)141-330 5218
fax: +44 (0)141-330 4907
** Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College
University of London, SE14 6NW,London, UK
Email: j.djan@gold.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20-7919-7862
Fax: +44 (0)20-7919-7853

Complete Proceedings Book of Abstracts

## Table of Contents

Conference Foreword
Marion Hersh
Conference Keynote
Dana Marlowe
Session 1: Orientation and Mobility Systems for Visually Impaired People

1. Terrain analysis for blind wheelchair users: computer vision algorithms for finding curbs and other negative obstacles.
   James Coughlan and Huiying Shen
2. Texture based Text Detection in Natural Scene Images - A Help to Blind and Visually Impaired Persons
   Shehzad Muhammad Hanif and Lionel Prevost
3. Experiments of virtual navigation as a step in the development of a navigation tool for blind people
   Eleanor Fontaine, Guillaume Tatur, Edwige Pissaloux
4. Body mounted vision system for visually impaired outdoor and indoor wayfinding assistance
   Sylvie Treuillet, Eric Royer, Thierry Chateau, Michel Dhome, Jean-Marc Lavest

Session 2: Access to Education and Information

1. Improving social life and communication of people with disabilities by using Internet facilities
   Adina Ionescu, Ileana Hamburg, Zoltan Puklus, Attila Kürtösi
2. Towards a methodology for educating students with special needs
   Paloma Cantón, Angel Lucas González, Gonzalo Mariscal, and Carlos Ruiz
3. Socially inclusive e-learning models in companies
   Ileana Hamburg, Thorsten Busse, Andreea Peca, Adina Ionescu
4. Incorporating accessibility within pedagogical environments
   David Crombie, Neil McKenzie and Benjie Marwick Johnstone

Session 3: Assistive Technology for Independence

1. Designing Tangible table-top interfaces for Patients in Rehabilitation
   Michael Leitner, Martin Tomitsch, T. Költringer, K. Kappel, T. Grechenig
2. E-voting - a key to independence for all
   Ülle Lepp and Erik Loide
3. The Ambient Intelligence and the Assistive Technologies for Elderly, Visually and Hearing Impaired Users in Slovakia
   Dušan Šimšík, Alena Galajdová, Zlatica Dolná, Jana Andrejková
4. Biomimetic Space-Variant Sampling in a Vision Prosthesis Improves the User's Skill in a Localization Task
   Barthélémy Durette, L. Gamond, S. Hanneton, D. Alleysson, J. Hérault

Workshop

1. Multimodal access to mathematics: the LAMBDA system
   Cristian Bernareggi and Sauro Cesaretti

Session 4: Improving the Accessibility of Complex Content

1. An accessible and usable E-Book as an educational tool: how to get it?
   Barbara Leporini
2. Haptic and aural graphs exploration for visually impaired users
   Thimoty Barbieri, Lorenzo Mosca and Licia Sbattella
3. Speech and Braille tools to improve access to university scientific courses
   Cristian Bernareggi
4. E-learning platform for interactive access to multimedia materials in Daisy format
   Piotr Brzoza

Session 5: Access to Multi-Media for Hearing Impaired People

1. SUBPAL: A device for reading aloud subtitles from television and cinema
   Simon Nielsen and Hans-Heinrich Bothe
2. OCR-algorithm for detection of subtitles in television and cinema
   Morten Jønsson and Hans-Heinrich Bothe
3. Emotional subtitles: A system and potential applications for deaf and hearing impaired people
   James Ohene-Djan, Jenny Wright and Kirsty Combie-Smith
4. A system for control of hearing instrument selection and adjustment based on evaluation of correct transmission of speech elements and features
   Axel Plinge and Dieter Bauer

Panel Discussion Assistive Technology and Social Inclusion for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People from Ethnic and Other Minority Groups

1. Taking into account cultural and linguistic factors: the Tunisian experience (paper not included)
   Mohammed Jemni
2. The ethnic minority end-user perspective
   Sadaqat Ali
3. Adaptive, inclusive software design for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments
   James Ohene-Djan

Session 6: Sign Language and Access to Information for Deaf People

1. The need to develop deaf friendly materials for young Black Minority Ethnic Deaf experiencing identity issues
   Sadaqat Ali, Saduf Naqvi and Ken Carter
2. End-user involvement in assistive technology design for the deaf - are artificial forms of sign language meeting the needs of the target audience?
   Saduf Naqvi
3. Joining Hands: Developing A Sign Language Machine Translation System with and for the Deaf Community
   Sara Morrissey and Andy Way
4. Design Implications for a Ubiquitous Ambient Sound Display for the Deaf
   Martin Tomitsch, T. Grechenig

Session 7: Telephony and Other Services for Hearing Impaired People

1. Sign language MMS to make cell phones accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community
   Mohammed Jemni, Oussama El Ghoul, Nour Ben Yahia, Mehrez Boulares
2. Telephone and Hearing Impaired - New Approaches for Increasing the Telephone Speech Quality for Hearing Impaired Users
   Jan Krebber
3. Household sound identification for people with hearing disabilities
   Héctor Lozano Peiteado, I. Hernaez, J. González, I. Idigoras

Author Biographies

11-Nov-2008: submitted by James Ohene-Djan
11-Nov-2008: published on CEUR-WS.org