Hands - free PC control for users with disabilities of their hands

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  • Sampath Kumar
چکیده

Physically disabled and mentally challenged people are an important part of our society that has not yet received the same opportunities as others in their inclusion in the Information Society. Therefore, it is necessary to develop easily accessible systems for computers to achieve their inclusion within the new technologies. This paper presents a project whose objective is to draw disabled people nearer to new technologies. In this paper the assistive multimodal system is presented, which is aimed for the disabled people, which need other kinds of interfaces than ordinary people. The group of users of this system is persons with hands disabilities. The interaction between a user and a machine is performed by voice and head movements. It gives the opportunity for disabled people to carry out a work with PC.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013