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Prof. Noboru Ohnishi
Nagoya University, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School
of Engineering, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.
Tel: +81 52 789 3309
Fax: +81 52 782 3814
Email: ohnishi@nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Web: www.ohnishi.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp/staff/ohnishi/index-e.html
Publications
Current & recent projects
Support system for visually or auditory handicapped persons
Co-workers: Hiroaki Kudo; Hiroki Minagawa; Noboru Sugie
Research and Development of: 1) A communication support system enabling
the blind to read and write such figures as a map, a diagram, a sketch
using tactile and auditory media. 2) A support system for visually handicapped
children to acquire the ability of object-recognition and -manipulation
in 3D space. 3) A sound localization system which informs the direction
of sound such as a car and a human to a deaf person.
Last updated: 22/11/99
Helge B Olsen
Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis, California
95616, United States of America.
Tel: +1 530 752 0842
Fax: +1 530 752 1392
Email: hbolsen@ucdavis.edu
Current & recent projects
Research into sensory play environments for blind and visually impaired children. Products and environments for blind and visually impaired people.
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Bernard Oriola
IRIT UMR CNRS 5505, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex F-31062, France.
Tel: +33 561 556 315
Fax: +33 561 556 258
Email oriola@irit.fr
Web: www.irit.fr
Current & recent projects
The Talking Reader System
Co-workers: Dr. Philippe Truillet; Dr.
Nadine Vigouroux
Research to improve the consultation (navigation and reading) of voice
documents to visually impaired persons. The navigation principles developed
by the authors are based on the structure of the recorded voice book.
Aim to integrate speech input as a means to navigate through recorded
voice documents. Other work will study the possibility to adapt this Talking
Reader interface to the DAISY format.
Project start date: 01/09/96
Project end date: 31/12/2001
Internet Electronic Document Accessibility
Last updated: 10/02/99
Marcus Ormerod
SURFACE, University of Salford, Bridgewater Building, Salford M7 9NU,
United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 161 295 3071
Fax: +44 161 295 5011
Email: m.ormerod@salford.ac.uk
Web: www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/surface/projects.htm
Current & recent projects
Research Focus on Accessible Environments
The Surface team will spend the 30 months establishing what determines
"reasonableness" in accessibility design, evaluating how to
overcome conflicts in design for all, bridging the gap between theory
and practice. The key objectives are to develop a picture of the current
strategies adopted by building designers to assimilate and operationise
their knowledge base on accessibility, evaluating best practice approaches
in parallel fields implementation of guidance for designers. We hope to
develop a consensus view on what determines "reasonableness"
in accessibility design and evaluate how to overcome conflicts in design
for all.
Last updated: 29/03/2001
Fred Otto
Street Address: American Printing House for the Blind, Department of Educational
and Technical Research, 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky 40206-0085,
United States of America.
Postal Address: American Printing House for the Blind, PO Box 6085, Louisville,
Kentucky, United States of America.
Tel: +1 502 895 2405
Fax: +1 502 899 2269
Email: fotto@aph.org
Web: www.aph.org/
Current & recent projects
Tactile Graphics
Co-worker: Karen Poppe
Last updated: 27/02/2006
Dr. Karim Ouazzane
London Metropolitan University, Department of Computing, North Campus, 2-16 Eden Grove, London N7 8EA, UK.
Tel: +44 20 7133 7038
Email: k.ouazzane@londonmet.ac.uk
Web: www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/cctm/
Current & recent projects
Intelligent Keyboard
Like most organisations whose function is to help the disabled, EDPA (Essex Disabled Peoples Association) makes considerable use of disabled volunteers. EDPA found that many of these volunteers were having great difficulty in using a database which had been developed to support the helpline, to the extent that they would fall back on using card index records. The system was redesigned and rebuilt in-house, using advice from these volunteers. One aspect that caused considerable problems was the use of drop-down menus ("combo boxes"), and a simple system to support typing and detect common errors automatically was implmented instead. From this simple system grew the idea of a more sophisticated system that would detect errors common to a specific type of disability and correct accordingly. The current project is exploring this idea. The objective is to develop "Intelligent Keyboard" software which, by detecting a users disability and correcting accordingly, will help disabled users to use standard software.
Project start date: 08/08/2005
Project end date: 14/06/2009
Last updated: 19/03/2008
Ms. Liv Ovstedal
SINTEF Civil and Environmental Engineering, Transport Engineering, N- 7465 Trondheim, Norway.
Tel: +47 7359 8248
Fax: +47 7359 4656
Email: liv.ovstedal@civil.sintef.no
Current & recent projects
Research interests:
- Roads and transport
- Pedestrian comfort
- Tactile surface indicators
Last updated: 18/9/2006
Dr. Cynthia Owsley
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Callahan
Eye Foundation Hospital, 700 S. 18th Street, Suite 609, Birmingham, Alabama
35294-0009, United States of America.
Tel: +1 205 325 8635
Fax: +1 205 325 8692
Email: owsley@uab.edu
Web: www.eyes.uab.edu/directory/owsley.html
Publications
Current & recent projects
Visual Dysfunction & Aging: Underlying Mechanisms
Vision problems at night and under low luminance are pervasive among the
elderly and are also characteristic of early age-related maculopathy (ARM),
a common sight-threatening disease of the elderly. Yet little is known
about the neural causes of these deficits. To address these issues, a
research plan is being carried out using psychophysical and electroretinographic
(ERG) techniques: To identify mechanisms underlying scotopic dysfunction
in aging and early ARM, specifically focusing on:
Alterations in the visual cycle with respect to the dark adaptation of
rods. Changes in the activation and deactivation of phototransduction
with respect to steady state sensitivity of the rods. To develop a health-related
quality of life questionnaire addressing vision problems at night and
under low luminance in aging and ARM and how it relates to the functional
deficits.
Glaucoma and Driving
The purpose of this project is to conduct an epidemiological study to
examine whether glaucoma, a common eye disease in the elderly, is a risk
factor for crash involvement in older adults. This study will have a retrospective
follow-up design where crash involvement is defined as the occurrence
of one or more at-fault vehicle crashes during a three year follow-up
period. Exposure variables of interest will be obtained through medical
chart abstraction and a telephone survey of glaucoma patients and patients
in a non-disease, visually normal reference group. If we find that glaucoma
is associated with crash involvement, we will then determine what aspects
of this disease and its treatment may contribute to this relationship
(e.g., visual field impairment, medications).
Vehicle Crashes, Injuries, and Older Drivers
The objective of this project is to identify performance limitations that
place older drivers at risk for crashes, especially those that result
in injury to the older driver. Special attention will be directed at visual
and cognitive performance since: (1) they are critical skills for vehicle
control; (2) these skills tend to decline with age; and (3) prior research
has indicated that visual and cognitive declines are risk factors for
unsafe driving among the elderly. This objective will be addressed by
the assembly and analysis of pooled data from four cohorts of older drivers
totaling 3646 subjects. Pooling techniques, a type of meta-analysis, will
be used to examine what functional impairments and medical conditions
elevate injurious crash risk in older drivers. Analysis techniques will
take into account potential heterogeneity in the four individual cohorts.
The cohorts proposed for study will have up to 9 years of follow-up (median
3.5 yrs) of crash data on subjects.
Last updated: 13/10/2003
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