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Main trending topicsEstíbaliz Ochoa Mendoza

Fundación Vodafone EspañaMadrid, Spain

3rd Generation of AT’s compared to the 1st and 2nd Gen.

Ubiquity and portability of AT’s

Improvements in user-interaction

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Main trending topics1st, 2nd, 3rd Generation

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3rd Generation2nd Generation

1st Generation

Main trending topics1st, 2nd, 3rd Generation

Supporting developers in making accesible applications

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Developers are capable of creating any sort of application, interaction and user interface.

Creating accessible applications, and accessible user interactions. “from scratch” requires a lot of work.

If the stock user interface components are accessible applications built with them are likely accessible

New paradigm in accessibility

Main trending topicsUbiquity and portability of Assistive Technologies

Cloud computing

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2nd generation conceptAdaptation of individual

products and services for a person

3rd generation concept Automatic-personalisation of any mainstream

product or service a user encounters, using cloud technologies to activate and augment any natural (built-in) accessibility the product or service has

based on a profile of the user’s needs

Creation of an user profile that automatically matches mainstream products and services with necessary features and configures them according to users preferences and context of use, anywhere on any device (PC, mobile, smart phone,,…), configuring the content and user interface including the accessibility of the product if needed (run without AT installation or with download and AT installation).


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Available as on a portable storage device“Accessibility Portable Applications

in the pocket”

Range of free assistive technoologies and other applications that will run from a portable storage device without requiring an installation onto a harddrive.

Examples of what is available:• Firefox Accessibility Extension - Make Firefox

more accessible• On-Screen Keyboard Portable - Easily access an

on-screen keyboard• Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable - A full-featured

screen magnifier• DSpeech is a free screenreader that runs from a

USB drive

Computers can both sense, and react based on their environment. Devices may have information about the circumstances under which they are able to operate and based on rules, or an intelligent stimulus, react accordinglyi.e.:mobile phone

Context awareness


Human factors related contextinformation on the user, user’s social environment and the user’s tasks

Context related to physical environmentLocation, infrastructure and physical conditions.

Software that can convert spoken words into written text has been available since the early 1980s, Still can’t match the recognition levels of human being

Brain computer interfaceDirect communication pathway between the brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.

Voice interaction: next user interface?

Main trending topicsImprovements in user-interaction

Augmented Communication


Live direct or an indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9IKPvsjVo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGH5WGMnbs

Possibilities of Aumented Reality in a mobile phone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr9IKPvsjVo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGH5WGMnbs

Thanks for your attention!

Estíbaliz Ochoa [email protected]

Fundación Vodafone EspañaMadrid, Spain


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