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AsTeRICS: A Framework for Including Sensor Technology into AT Solutions for People with Motor Disabilities

AsTeRICS: A Framework for Including Sensor Technology into AT Solutions for People with Motor Disabilities

Klaus Miesenberger, Gerhard Nussbaum, Roland Ossmann
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781522500346|ISBN10: 1522500340|EISBN13: 9781522500353
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0034-6.ch081
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Miesenberger, Klaus, et al. "AsTeRICS: A Framework for Including Sensor Technology into AT Solutions for People with Motor Disabilities." Special and Gifted Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 1857-1884. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0034-6.ch081

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Miesenberger, K., Nussbaum, G., & Ossmann, R. (2016). AsTeRICS: A Framework for Including Sensor Technology into AT Solutions for People with Motor Disabilities. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Special and Gifted Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1857-1884). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0034-6.ch081

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Miesenberger, Klaus, Gerhard Nussbaum, and Roland Ossmann. "AsTeRICS: A Framework for Including Sensor Technology into AT Solutions for People with Motor Disabilities." In Special and Gifted Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1857-1884. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0034-6.ch081

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Abstract

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.

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