naturally associate with computers. Yet over the last few years there has been a surge of research efforts concerning the combination of both subjects. This article tries to shed light on these efforts. In carrying out this program, one is handicapped by the fact that, as words, both creativity and storytelling are severely lacking in the precision one expects of words to be used for intellectu...

God has gifted human beings with six major power of senses, if any one of these is absent or damaged in such a way that it is unable to perform its function, the person became handicapped. A cross sectional study of 120 mentally retarded children of age 6-18 years was conducted in Faisalabad and Islamabad districts by using convenient sampling technique. The purpose was to study the socio-psych...

This paper evaluates a direct speech translation Method with waveforms using the Inductive Learning method for short conversation. The method is able to work without conventional speech recognition and speech synthesis because syntactic expressions are not needed for translation in the proposed method. We focus only on acoustic characteristics of speech waveforms of source and target languages ...

SET and the handicapped In your Autumn 1966 issue, you published a letter from Dr. Bailey, of Tone Vale Hospital, Somerset, on the adverse effect of the selective employment tax on the employment of disabled workers. This matter has been discussed by the Social Services Committee of the National Association for Mental Health, and various efforts were made to discover, from different areas, whet...

Working Party commissioned by K | British Council Jor Rehabilitation oj the Disabled. Obtainable jrom the t ?11" Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, W.C.I, 1963, 155. ^ This Report constitutes a survey, begun in 1959, of the whole field of work for capped school-leavers?the blind and the deaf, the physically disabled and epileptic ,, educationally subnormal and the maladjusted?with the object of...

AT PARTICULAR times in the history of science, particular problems become ripe for investigation. A precipitating event brings them to the attention of a single person and sometimes to that of several at the same time. It is therefore understandable that during World War II the need was felt to investigate the problems of social-psychological rehabilitation of the physically handicapped and tha...

Medical robotics includes assistive devices used by the physician in order to make his/her diagnostic or therapeutic practices easier and more efficient. This chapter focuses on such systems. It introduces the general field of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions, its aims, its different components and describes the place of robots in that context. The evolutions in terms of general design a...

During the past 10 years the care of children with handicaps has assumed an increasingly important role in paediatric practice. This is reflected in the recent expansion and reorganisation of the community child health services and of training programmes and professional examinations. Caring for families who have a handicapped child entails a delicately balanced partnership between parent, chil...

In this paper, the author introduces a novel method for non-invasive, implicit human-computer interaction based on dynamically evaluated sitting postures. The research question addressed is whether or not the proposed system is able to allow for non-obtrusive screen content adaptation in a reading situation. To this end, the author has integrated force sensor array mats into a traditional offic...

In Chalk v. United States Dist. Court Central Dist. of Cal.,I a school teacher infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was allowed to teach in the classroom, despite the school system's desire to transfer him to an administrative position. This is the first case in which a federal appeals court interpreted a federal statute, the Rehabilitation Act,2 to include AIDS victims with...