IS4ALL: An EC-funded initiative to promote design for all in Healthcare
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This paper presents in brief IS4ALL; an European Commission (EC)-funded project promoting and facilitating universal access in Health Telematics. IS4ALL is the successor of several efforts in the area of HCI aiming to advance the notion and practice of universal design in human computer interaction. Also, it constitutes an extension of the series of meetings and workshops held by the International Scientific Forum “Towards an Information Society for all”. In this paper, we outline the technical objectives and methodological approach of IS4ALL in an attempt to describe how the projects sets out to achieve its target.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001