In this research we draw upon organizational literature on spatial intrusion to identify two components of technology related employee intrusion concerns -employee accessibility and employee visibility. Situating our arguments in learning and control perspectives, we theorize the influence of employee ‘accessibility’ and ‘visibility’ on two technology enabled employee outcomes of productivity a...

1. Accessibility must be designed in, not bolted on. Universal design benefits all users, not merely those with disabilities. The government’s role has yet to be defined in encouraging (perhaps mandating) universal design and setting standards. 2. Technological accessibility is critical in today’s society. The international information infrastructure must not be off limits to people with disabi...

We report on an ongoing project which aims at improving the e ectiveness of retrieval and accessibility of learning object within learning management systems and learning object repositories. The project Language Technology for eLearning approaches this task by providing Language Technology based functionalities and by integrating semantic knowledge through domain-speci c ontologies. We will re...

The evaluation of micromilled parts quality requires detailed assessments of both geometry and surface topography. However, in many cases, the reduced accessibility caused by the complex geometry of the part makes it impossible to perform direct measurements. This problem can be solved by adopting the replica molding technology. The method consists of obtaining a replica of the feature that is ...

One section of the general population that can greatly benefit from the current interest in indoor navigation systems comprises the various disabled groups. In developing assistive navigation systems an important issue is how to obtain information relevant for navigation from the perspective of these special user groups. The theory of affordances coupled with computer-based simulation offers a ...

Although manual transcription and captioning can increase the accessibility of multimedia for deaf students it is rarely provided in educational contexts in the UK due to the cost and shortage of highly skilled and trained stenographers. Speech recognition has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the availability of captioning if it could satisfy accuracy and readability requirements. ...

The World Wide Web (Web) is in constant evolutionary change. This evolution occurs along many fronts and is led by infrastructure developers, Web designers, technologists, and users. These multiple stake–holders ensure that the Web is a heterogeneous entity, not just in the nature of the content, but in the technology and agents used to deliver and render that content. It is precisely this hete...

Travel, like many other aspects of daily life is being transformed by the information technology revolution. Accessibility can no longer be measured only in terms of travel time, distance or generalized travel cost. Telecommunications provides people with virtual accessibility to a rapidly growing range of activities and real-time information about travel conditions. E-commerce has become a cat...

* Faculty of Information Technology, Rangsit University. Abstract With the rapidly increasing number of Thai text documents available in digital media and websites, it is important to find an efficient text indexing technique to facilitate search and retrieval. An efficient index would speed up the response time and improve the accessibility of the documents. Up to now, not much research in Tha...

In this paper we discuss initial concepts of the development of a fully automatic guide dog system for blind users. The physical scene is scanned using a laser range device, and the three dimensional point cloud measurements are analyzed and transformed into a description of the environment that is communicated to the user via synthetic speech and/or haptic feedback allowing the user to navigat...