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...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 64 - 70 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jan2009
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