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Dr. Joost M. Van den Broek
Kompagne BV, Winthontlaan 200, Utrecht 3526 KV, Netherlands.
Tel: +31 30 2870564
Fax: +31 30 2898560
Contact: Dr. Rob C. van Geel (Head of R&D)
Email: info@kompagne.nl
Web: www.kompagne.nl
Current & recent projects
Computer access. Communication devices. Fluent Dutch Text-To-Speech (high quality speech synthesis). Computer devices for visually impaired. Software for rehabilitation. Educational software.
Last updated: 11/11/1999
L. Van Warren
Warren Design Vision, 15000 Chenal Parkway, Suite C-308, Little Rock,
Arkansas 72211-2002, United States of America.
Tel: +1 501 224 7434
Email: van@wdv.com
Web: www.wdv.com
Current & recent projects
The EchomaticT R&D Program "Enabling Greater Mobility Via Echolocation"
The development of wearable echolocation amplifier. Sight impaired advantages
are they can hear higher frequencies, can hear fainter sounds, can detect
phase differences more accurately, phase in the sound domain is equivalent
to stereopsis in the visual domain.
Last updated: 10/01/2005
Professor Gregg C. Vanderheiden
Trace R&D Center, 1550 Engineering Drive, 2107 Engineering Centers Building, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1609, United States
of America.
Tel: +1 608 262 6966
Fax: +1 608 262 8848
Email: gv@trace.wisc.edu
Web: trace.wisc.edu
Publications
Current & recent projects
Access to the Information Superhighway
Co-worker: Wendy Chisholm
The national information infrastructure (NII) needs to be accessible to
people with disabilities, as do many of the "side roads" that
may not be a part of the main system. The Trace Center is currently working
in coordination with the W3C, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting/WGBH
National Center for Accessible Media, and others on access to the Internet,
including how graphical interfaces to the World Wide Web (such as Netscape)
can be made accessible.
Infrared Link (URCC)
Co-worker: Dave Kelso
The Trace Center is working with those involved in the infrared and electronic
information industries to develop a standard that will allow people with
disabilities to use infrared links to provide them with access to and
control of a wide range of computers, information systems and appliances.
As an example, this standard should define a mechanism to allow an individual
who is blind, to use their specialized access device to locate an information
kiosk while moving through an airport.
Talking Fingertip
Co-worker: Chris Law
A touchscreen ordinarily requires the user to read the screen in order
to operate the system. Since touchscreens are becoming very popular in
new information systems, a way for blind people to operate them must be
worked out. The Trace Center is currently working on a "talking fingertip"
design where users who are blind, have low vision, or have print disabilities
or low literacy can use touchscreen-based kiosks, ATMs. and other devices.
Information Kiosk Design
Co-worker: Chris Law
Information technologies are expanding far beyond the traditional personal
computer. Many of these technologies - like electronic information kiosks
and ATMs. - are in public places and cannot be modified for the individual
user. Accessibility must be built into the initial design. The Trace Center
is working with several kiosk design groups within government and private
industry to identify strategies for improving their systems' accessibility.
EZ Access
Co-worker: Chris Law
EZ Access is a flexible but standard set of interface strategies for allowing
people to access and use electronic devices even when they are operating
under constrained conditions. The constrained conditions might result
from their having a disability or from environmental factors. EZ Access
is a set of modes and features which can change the way electronic devices
operate to make them easier to use for everybody. The EZ Access package
includes strategies for people with low vision, blindness, reduced hearing,
deafness, physical disabilities, reading problems, inability to read,
and more. EZ Access is not necessarily complex or expensive to implement,
but does provide a standard way for people with disabilities to use all
manner of electronic devices, from microwave ovens, to cellular phones,
to interactive multimedia kiosks, to coffee vending machines. A set of
development packs, and standard implementations are to be published by
Trace and are intended to be used by hardware and software developers
as a means to understand EZ Access, and be able to implement it in their
own systems.
Information/Transaction Machines Research Project
Co-worker: Chris Law
The United States Access Board and others involved in the disability access
area are receiving increasing requests for information on how to make
accessible a class of devices herein referred to as ITMs. (Information/Transaction
Machines). This class of devices includes such things as ATMs., ticket
vending machines, computer kiosks, electronic building directories, fare
machines, etc. The Access Board have sponsored a 12 month project at the
Trace Center to produce more practical background and design information
on creating accessible ITMs. The approach to be taken by this project
consists of basically four strategies: (1) Gathering all of the known
information which would be helpful to people interested in learning about
or carrying out accessible designs for ITMs.; (2) Synthesizing this information
and combining it with input from industry, consumers and researchers to
create useful reference and design materials; (3) Creating actual design
concepts/Level 1 prototypes which show how the strategies can be incorporated
into practical, effective ITM designs; and (4) Ensuring designs are effective
and practical through user testing and feedback from companies involved
in the development of ITMs.
Dr Milan Vasilko (currently on career leave)
Office P324, Poole House, School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 1 202 595 505
Fax: +44 1 202 595 314
Email: M.Vasilko@computer.org
Web: http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/~mvasilko/
Current & recent projects
Research interests:
- Inclusive digital television technology
- Design automation for reconfigurable systems, incl. algorithms, methodologies, modelling, verification, and CAD tools
- Reconfigurable computing
- Devices and technologies for reconfigurable systems and reconfigurable computing
- Applications of reconfigurable systems in wired and wireless communications, image processing and various computationally-intensive applications
- Evolutionary electronics and evolutionary circuit design
Last updated: 18/9/2006
Eric M. Velleman
Bartimeus Foundation, Utrechtseweg 84, Zeist 3702 AD, Netherlands.
Tel: +31 30 698 2346
Fax: +31 30 698 2347
Email: e.velleman@bartimeus.nl
Web: www.bartimeus.nl
Current & recent projects
ATLAS Project
Development of a working digital atlas for the partially sighted by means
of a cooperation of educational knowledge and IT firms. The project is
also leading scientific research to establish criteria for the development
of the (client-individuals) maps, the legends, the Graphical User Interface
(GUI) and other graphics components for this and future atlases.
Project start date: 01/03/1996
Project end date: 31/12/1998
Prof. Claude Veraart
Université Catholique de Louvain, Neural Rehabilitation Engineering
Laboratory, Avenue Hippocrate 54, Gren 5446, Brussels 1200, Belgium.
Tel: +32 2 764 5446
Fax: +32 2 764 9422
Email: veraart@gren.ucl.ac.be
Web: www.dice.ucl.ac.be/mivip
Publications
Current & recent projects
Physiological properties of the abnormally developed visual system; Rehabilitation of vision using sensory substitution, currently developing the worlds first complete artificial eye that could help blind people 'see'; The visual prosthesis; Selective electrical activation of spinal nerves.
Last updated: 08/05/2000
Cornelis Anton Verezen
University Medical Centre Nijmegen, OPtometry, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Email: anton@ergra.nl
Current & recent projects
Number of Characters on a CCTV Display After Implantation of a Teledioptric
Intraocular Lens
Co-worker: C.B. Hoynh
This study was performed to provide us with more information about the
effectiveness of the implantation of a Teledioptric Ontraocular lens (TDIOL)
as a supplementary magnifing device in combination with the use of a CCTV.
We investigated the possibility to creare more characters on the CCTV
display withe the implantation of a TDIOL.
Last updated: 04/09/2002
Dr. Michel Verleysen
Université Catholique de Louvain, Microelectronics Laboratory,
3 Place de Levant, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
Tel: +32 10 472 551
Fax: +32 10 472 598
Email: verleysen@dice.ucl.ac.be
Web: www.dice.ucl.ac.be/mivip
Publications
Current & recent projects
Microsystems based visual prosthesis
Co-workers: Xavier Arreguit; Alain Perreard; Michel Trootster; Elena Valderrama;
Prof. Claude G Veraart
This project aims at realizing microsystems-based prototypes in the field
of rehabilitation engineering, and at demonstrating the efficacy of a
functional prototype of visual prosthesis interfaces with the optic nerve.
Project start date: 01/12/1996
Project end date: 30/11/1999
Pauline Vigoureux
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 9 quai Saint Bernard, 75252 Paris
Cedex 05, France.
Email: pauline.vigoureux9@libertysurf.fr
Publications
Current & recent projects
Legibility of an Electronic Book for Partially Sighted People
Co-worker: Dominique Burger
Investigating the usability of an electronic book by partially sighted
persons. Examining the needs of these users, from which it recommends
some improvements aimed at a better accessibility of this new type of
reading device.
Last updated: 25/09/2001
Dr. Nadine Vigouroux
IRIT UMR CNRS 5505, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex F-31062, France.
Tel: +33 561 556 314
Fax: +33 561 556 258
Email: vigourou@irit.fr
Web: www.irit.fr
Publications
Current & recent projects
PLAY Project
Co-workers: Didier Langolff;
Bernard Oriola; Dr. Monique Truquet
Studying Internet access for visually impaired persons. Defining different
Internet access possibilities. Proposing guidelines concerning Web page
design. Evaluating solutions which exist to allow Internet access with
standard browsers coupled with screen readers or specific browser designed
for VIP's.
Project start date: 01/01/1997
Project end date: 31/12/1998
Dr. Ingrid Vogels
IPO, Center for User-System Interaction, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Tel: +31 40 2475 212
Fax: +31 40 2431 930
Email: imlc.vogels@tue.nl
Web: www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo/pdf/IPO-1999-18.pdf
Publications
Current & recent projects
Tactile Information in User-System Interaction
This project aims at exploring the possibilities of the use of tactile
displays in user-system interaction in order to enhance the naturalness
of the interface. The main goal is to develop metaphors for tactile interaction
and to investigate their integration with other modalities in order to
develop well-founded guidelines to support the choice of a tactile modality
in user-system interaction.
Project start date: 01/04/1999
Project end date: 31/03/2002
Last updated: 29/03/2001
Per von Wowern, President
Reachin Technologies AB, Årstaängsvägen 24, 117 43 Stockholm,
Sweden.
Tel: +46 736 201 100
Email: per.wowern@reachin.se
Web: www.reachin.se/
Current & recent projects
Reachin API is the leading R&D API for applications combining haptics (force-feedback) and 3D computer graphics. Version 3.1 gives enhanced support for 3D textures and new haptics devices.
Last updated: 17/12/2002
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