This paper describes an proof-of-concept with the goal of providing new interactions for elevators. By connecting the control unit of the elevator to the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC) middleware – the Universal Remote Console (UCH) – we show some examples of alternative and accessible User Interfaces. By this, we achieve not only accessible UIs, e.g., spoken language interfaces, ...

UNLABELLED Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of lorries, goods vehicles, and company cars. Time of day (circadian) effects are profound, with sleepiness being particularly evident during night shift work, and driving home afterwards. Circa...

Several studies show that the risk of accidents involving patients with epilepsy is much higher compared to the general population. The objective of this study was to identify the frequency and type of seizure related injuries in children diagnosed with epilepsy. In addition we also assessed possible risk factors associated with this seizure related accidents in childhood. This study was conduc...

conclusions the study showed that elevator buttons could lead to transmission of pathogenic bacteria. it is necessary to clean and disinfect elevator buttons daily, especially in departments with high contamination potential such as laboratories, particularly in biological laboratories and pilot plant rooms. methods the study was a across sectional research. samples were taken from elevator but...

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. Timed 8-automata have been studied as a logical speci cation language of real-time behaviors. A general veri cation method has been proposed for checking whether a constraint net model satis es a timed 8-automaton speci cation. In this paper, we illustrate constraint net modeling and timed 8-auto...

Liquid manure is an important element in modern intensive agriculture. However, its handling and storage present acute risks in the form of toxic or explosive gases and large storage containers, access to which is often inadequately secured. In recent years occupational medicine and accident prevention experts have begun the task of systematically identifying the sources of risk and formulating...

The frequency of motor vehicle and working accidents was analyzed by means of a strictly anonymous questionnaire in 156 patients with sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) and in 160 age-gender matched controls. In the SAS group 12.4% of all drivers had motor vehicle accidents as compared to 2.9% in the control group (p<0.005). The motor vehicle accident rate was 13.0 per million km in patients with more ...

One hundred and three patients with maxillofacial fractures due to work-related accidents were analysed. Ninety-nine patients (96.1%) were male and 4 (3.9%) were female. The average age was 46.8 years (range 18-75 years). The injuries were most commonly sustained during construction (42 patients, 40.8%) followed by agriculture and forestry (31 patients, 30.1%) and manufacturing (15 patients, 14...

In its first part the article questions the notion of alcohol-related accidents. It is stressed that the rates of alcohol-related accidents are influenced by changes of the public consciousness of problems. In the second part the share of alcohol involvement in accidents of various nature is shortly indicated. Finally, in the third part, the effect of primary and secondary prevention is discuss...

INTRODUCTION Major workplace related accidents pose a significant healthcare resource challenge in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study looks at the epidemiology of patients who were admitted for workplace related accidents, in a single institution, with an Injury Severity Score of >9. RESULTS There were 196 cases of major workplace related accidents admitted between January 2006 and ...