Currently there are many standards that impinge on accessibility issues regarding users’ models, learning scenarios, interaction preferences, devices capabilities, metadata for specifying the delivery of any resource to meet users’ needs, and software accessibility and usability. Each standard represents a different viewpoint with its own sets of goals and scope and it is difficult to understan...

background: students often use social network sites and are willing to share information and communicate with teachers, colleagues and patients. despite the increase in the application of the social network sites as a tool for obtaining health knowledge, few studies have been conducted to evaluate the production and share of health information by rehabilitation students, especially in iran. the...

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Self-service terminals (SSTs) are becoming an increasing important part of the service landscape for both the public and private sector. There is very little information regarding the current state of accessibility practice in this area. This paper presents the results of interviews with 22 stakeholders in the supply and deployment communities for SSTs regarding their knowledge of accessibility...

Fernando Díaz del Río Robotics and Computer Technology for Rehabilitation Lab. University of Seville (SPAIN) Tel: +34 95 4556144 Fax:+ 34 95 4556449 [email protected] Antón Civit Robotics and Computer Technology for Rehabilitation Lab. University of Seville (SPAIN) Tel: +34 95 4556470 Fax:+ 34 95 4556449 [email protected] Juan Antonio Prieto XimetriX network thoughts SL Tel: +34 91 3645475 juanpri@...

Workflows generated from e-Science applications require the simultaneous use of multiple types of resources. In this paper, we present the Multiple Resource Reservation Model (MRRM), which enables the monitoring and scheduling of multiple heterogeneous and distributed resources. MRRM provides a unified representation for multiple types of distributed resources, and represents resource constrain...

Accessibility plays an important role in behavioral decision making. It influences a variety of behavior patterns in time use, resource allocation, and activity allocation of household members. In spite of the recognition of the importance of accessibility in behavioral modeling, appropriate accessibility measures based on time geography are rarely used in time use and activity participation mo...