Barriers to microcredit for disabled persons: Evidence from economically active persons in Uganda

Multimodal Interface for Disabled Persons

MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR DISABLED PERSONS S.A. Chhabria and R.V. Dharaskar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. E-mail: [email protected] Assistive robots have the potential to provide disabled people with effective ways to alleviate the impact of their limitations, by compensating for their specific impairments. In particular, r...

Designing Software for Mentally Disabled Persons

Different types of software applications for mentally disabled persons are presented here, with their advantages and drawbacks. The specification of an authoring system is emphasized in this paper, as work is currently in progress to develop such a system in our university.

Voice Activated Appliances for Severely Disabled Persons

People with severe speech and motor impairment due to cerebral palsy are great difficult to move independently and also cannot control home electric devices. Computer has much to offer people with disability, but the standard human-machine interface (e.g. keyboard and mouse) is inaccessible to this population. In this chapter, we describe a speech recognition interface for the control of powere...

Siting Group Homes for Developmentally Disabled Persons

EOG Controlled Motorized Wheelchair for Disabled Persons

Assistive robotics are playing a vital role in advancing the quality of life for disable people. There exist wide range of systems that can control and guide autonomous mobile robots. The objective of the control system is to guide an autonomous mobile robot using the movement of eyes by means of EOG signal. The EOG signal is acquired using Ag/AgCl electrodes and this signal is processed by a m...