Disabled People in Disasters - EC Project “EUNAD-Implementation“

Satellite Navigation supporting disabled people: the NADIA project

The NADIA (NAvigation for DIsability Applications) Project responded to the call for proposal of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) concerning the “Satellite Navigation Applications for Disabled Citizens”. Thales Alenia Space Italia is the Prime Contractor and unique interface to ASI, leading a mixed team composed by Industries, University and User associations. The main objective of the Project wa...

Assisted suicide and disabled people.

Learning Applications for Disabled People

This chapter presents e-learning practices and applications, which target people with visual and hearing disabilities. The first part discusses an elearning application, which targets visually impaired people while the second part presents an e-learning application for the teaching of the English language to deaf and hearing impaired people. The final part presents a study about the relationshi...

Autonomous Wheelchair for Disabled People

This paper describes the RobChair assistive navigation system. RobChair project was conceived with the aim to assist disabled people in the difficult task of manoeuvring a powered wheelchair. This paper describes the overall hardware and software architecture including the communication system; a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) which also works as a simulator; and introduces a voice Hum...

Anthropomorphism in Robotics Engineering for Disabled People

In its attempt to offer new ways into autonomy for a large population of disabled people, assistive technology has largely been inspired by robotics engineering. Recent human-like robots carry new hopes that it seems to us necessary to analyze by means of a specific theory of anthropomorphism. We propose to distinguish a functional anthropomorphism which is the one of actual wheelchairs from a ...