wisePad Services for Vision-,Hearing-,and Speech-Impaired Users.

The article discusses wisePad services, defined as full-service computing platforms which are designed to assist people with hearing problems, impaired vision, or people needing assistance with spoken and text-based language. These platforms will provided personalized image-, audio-, and text-transf...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 64 - 70
Main Authors: JUTLA, DAWN N., KANEVSKY, DIMITRI
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2009
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          Full professor and chair, Department of Finance, Information Systems, and Management Science, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
          Researcher, master inventor, and project manager, Speech and Language Algorithms Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
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        People with disabilities
        Assistive technology
        Learning disabilities
        Computer engineering
        Therapeutic use of computers
        Communicative disorders
        Computer network resources
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          Communicative disorders
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