Visually impaired Swedish children. Longitudinal comparisons 1980-1999

Speech technology for the visually impaired - the Swedish perspective

Fundamental speech research at the Department of Speech Communication & Music Acoustics, KTH, has lead to a multi-lingual text-to-speech system and a speech recognition device. Both are presently put to use by the visually impaired. To this date over five hundred text-to-speech systems are delivered, most of them to applications for the visually impaired. Some of these applications will be desc...

Tactile Mapping for Visually Impaired Children

Dr. Regina Vasconcellos Department of Geography/University of Sao Paulo C.P.8105 Sao Paulo SP Brazil 05508-900 Fax: 55118183159 E-mail: [email protected] The paper presents the results of five years of research on tactile mapping for visually impaired children carried out at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Based upon empirical research, the author has developed a model for tactual cartograph...

Accessible video games for visually impaired children

Currently, a few video games are accessible for visually impaired people. Our works deal with the development of such games and more precisely on tactile accessible video games for visually impaired children. The aim of these works is the establishment of a global method to develop such games. So, the first step is the conception of simple games as Snake and Maze ones. Then from these two games...

Multimedia Games for Visually Impaired Children

The TiM project intends to develop and to adapt computer games for visually impaired children. To describe the user’s needs is the first step of this project. This analysis will allow us to define two important points: the soft architecture & the authoring tools and the computer Human Interface for children and the resources (audio, tactile,...). This paper presents TiM’s approach concerning to...

Motor development in visually impaired children.