Assistive Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents a comprehensive collection of research, developments, and knowledge on technologies that enable disabled individuals to function effectively and accomplish otherwise challenging tasks.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
• Preface
• Section 1: Fundamental Concepts and Theories
• Chapter 1: Assistive Technology
• Chapter 2: A Guide to Assistive Technology for Teachers in Special Education
• Chapter 3: Communication Technology Integration in the Content Areas for Students with High-Incidence Disabilities
• Chapter 4: Accessibility Issues of Educational Web Sites
• Chapter 5: An Overview of Accessibility and Usability of Educational Games
• Chapter 6: A Brief Survey on User Modelling in Human Computer Interaction
• Chapter 7: POMDP Models for Assistive Technology
• Chapter 8: Working Together with Computers
• Chapter 9: Creating Synergies between Participatory Design of E-Services and Collaborative Planning
• Chapter 10: Concepts for Enhancing Content Quality and eAccessibility
• Chapter 11: Intellectual Disability, Identity, and the Internet
• Chapter 12: Internet-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management for Youth
• Chapter 13: Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for the Access and Use of Information and Communication Technologies by People with Disabilities
• Chapter 14: Capacity Building for Different Abilities Using ICT
• Chapter 15: Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering
• Chapter 16: A Model for Gaze Control Assessments and Evaluation
• Section 2: Tools and Technologies
• Chapter 17: In-TIC for Mobile Devices
• Chapter 18: Sensors and their Application for Disabled and Elderly People
• Chapter 19: Touch Screens for the Elderly
• Chapter 20: Aligning iPad Applications with Evidence-Based Practices in Inclusive and Special Education
• Chapter 21: 3D Assistive Technologies and Advantageous Themes for Collaboration and Blended Learning of Users with Disabilities
• Chapter 22: Reading by Listening
• Chapter 23: Automatic Speech Recognition to Enhance Learning for Disabled Students
• Chapter 24: Speech Disorders Recognition using Speech Analysis
• Chapter 25: Experiences Using a Free Tool for Voice Therapy based on Speech Technologies
• Chapter 26: Ways of ICT Usage among Mildly Intellectually Disabled Adolescents
• Chapter 27: What Do You Do With a Digital Pen?
• Chapter 28: Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices
• Chapter 29: Motion Control of an Omni-Directional Walker for Walking Support
• Chapter 30: Wheelchairs as Assistive Technology
• Chapter 31: DeepKver
• Section 3: Utilization and Application
• Chapter 32: Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes
• Chapter 33: Ubiquitous Computing for Independent Living
• Chapter 34: E-Health and Telemedicine in the Elderly
• Chapter 35: Telegerontology
• Chapter 36: Nascent Access Technologies for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments
• Chapter 37: RACEM Game for PC for Use as Rehabilitation Therapy for Children with Psychomotor Disability and Results of its Application
• Chapter 38: An Overview on the Use of Serious Games in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
• Chapter 39: Teaching Executive Functions, Self-Management, and Ethical Decision-Making through Popular Videogame Play
• Chapter 40: Collaborative Virtual Learning for Assisting Children with Cerebral Palsy
• Chapter 41: Embodied Conversational Agents in Interactive Applications for Children with Special Educational Needs
• Chapter 42: Computer Interventions for Children with Disabilities
• Chapter 43: Affect-Sensitive Computing and Autism
• Chapter 44: Accessibility and Usability Issues
• Chapter 45: Electronic Voting by Means of Digital Terrestrial Television
• Chapter 46: IDTVOS
• Section 4: Critical Issues
• Chapter 47: The Impact of International Management on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the Workforce
• Chapter 48: Supporting Unskilled People in Manual Tasks through Haptic-Based Guidance
• Chapter 49: Using Myoelectric Signals to Manipulate Assisting Robots and Rehabilitation Devices
• Chapter 50: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices
• Chapter 51: Voice/Speech Recognition Software
• Chapter 52: Evaluation of Web Accessibility
• Chapter 53: Eye Movements and Attention
• Chapter 54: Features of Gaze Control Systems
• Chapter 55: Safety Issues and Infrared Light
• Chapter 56: Assistive ICT and Young Disabled Persons
• Chapter 57: On the Use of Speech Technologies to Achieve Inclusive Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities
• Chapter 58: Supports for and Barriers to Implementing Assistive Technology in Schools
• Chapter 59: Instructional Design in Digital Environments and Availability of Mental Resources for the Aged Subpopulation
• Section 5: Organizational and Social Implications
• Chapter 60: Web-Based Experimentation for Students with Learning Disabilities
• Chapter 61: Accessibility Implementation for Disabled Students in PMBOLD Environments
• Chapter 62: Assistive Technology in Higher Education
• Chapter 63: Mental Health, Post-Secondary Education, and Information Communications Technology
• Chapter 64: Coping with Accessibility and Usability Challenges of Online Technologies by Blind Students in Higher Education
• Chapter 65: Lecture Capture as a Tool to Enhance Student Accessibility
• Chapter 66: Improving Cognitive Load on Students with Disabilities through Software Aids
• Chapter 67: Technology and Literacy for Students with Disabilities
• Chapter 68: Towards the Use of Dialog Systems to Facilitate Inclusive Education
• Chapter 69: Criteria of Development of Adaptive Didactic Games for People with Intellectual Disability
• Chapter 70: Technology to Facilitate the General Education Curriculum
• Chapter 71: A Parents Guide to Support Technologies for Preschool Students with Disabilities
• Chapter 72: Enabling Context Aware Services in the Area of AAC
• Chapter 73: Assistive Technologies and Environmental Design Concepts for Blended Learning and Teaching for Disabilities within 3D Virtual Worlds and Learning Environments
• Chapter 74: Conversational Metabots for Educational Applications in Virtual Worlds
• Chapter 75: A Face Based Real Time Communication for Physically and Speech Disabled People
• Section 6: Emerging Trends
• Chapter 76: Facial Muscle Activity Patterns for Recognition of Utterances in Native and Foreign Language
• Chapter 77: Fuzzy Linguistic Modelling in Multi Modal Human Computer Interaction
• Chapter 78: Model-Based Approaches for Scanning Keyboard Design
• Chapter 79: A Review of Current Approaches of Brain Computer Interfaces
• Chapter 80: Brain-Machine Interface Using Brain Surface Electrodes
• Chapter 81: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Visual Activity
• Chapter 82: Listening to Images
• Chapter 83: Unconstrained Walking Plane to Virtual Environment for Non-Visual Spatial Learning
• Chapter 84: Design of and Experimentation with a Walking Assistance Robot
• Chapter 85: State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia
• Chapter 86: The LiveAbility House
• Chapter 87: Interactivating Rehabilitation through Active Multimodal Feedback and Guidance
• Chapter 88: New Communication Technologies for Inclusive Education in and outside the Classroom