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Gabriele, age 56, motor disability: improving independence in communication by means of eye-gaze
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
Abstract: Gabriele: a clear and subtle mind trapped in a body that doesn't respond to commands. An ictus relegated him to the immobility and to a persistent silence from which he would like to escape, satisfying his fundamental needs: communication, interaction with the world, expression of feelings and thoughts. Gabriele can only communicate through his eyelids: looking up means yes, half-opening the eyes means no. With a 21 yellow and green letters table, he becomes a marksman of the alphabet. Yet his disease has been finally defeated by the patient's will and motivation and by the intelligence of the carers who believed in new technologies. This experience presents the experimentation results of a new eye-blink driven sensor for PC.
Year of publication: 2005
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: February 2005
Gabriele, age 56, motor disability: improving independence in communication by means of eye-gaze
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
Abstract: Gabriele: a clear and subtle mind trapped in a body that doesn't respond to commands. An ictus relegated him to the immobility and to a persistent silence from which he would like to escape, satisfying his fundamental needs: communication, interaction with the world, expression of feelings and thoughts. Gabriele can only communicate through his eyelids: looking up means yes, half-opening the eyes means no. With a 21 yellow and green letters table, he becomes a marksman of the alphabet. Yet his disease has been finally defeated by the patient's will and motivation and by the intelligence of the carers who believed in new technologies. This experience presents the experimentation results of a new eye-blink driven sensor for PC.
Year of publication: 2005
Type of document: Case studies/experiences
Last update: February 2005
Andrich R
Empowerment and Education toward independent living
Editorial data: Intervento al Convegno "Gli ausili informatici nella promozione dell’autonomia: riabilitazione, educazione, integrazione" (Prato 14/12/2002)
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) To insert the technologies in a context of education of the customer to the independence, to promote the role of the customer like protagonist of the choices that regard its way towards the independence and integration, to form in the customer an informed, demanding and responsible attitude in the choice and the use of the functional technological assistive devices to such scope regards in a sure sense all the technical participations of support, is they simpler assistive devices to high technology, devices, supplied programs than personal attendance, participations on the environment, services ***dalla the community. It sure acquires but particular connotations when we speak about computer based assistive devices, or in general terms of assistive devices that live one galloping technological evolution: evolution that on one side exercises an action of influence on the culture, the customs, the way to communicate, on the way to even organize the domestic matters and that therefore it opens new scenes of daily life that before we did not know. In this panel, emergent the problematic article by analyzes to the today regarding the supply of the assistive devices the public service.
Year of publication: 2002
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2003
Empowerment and Education toward independent living
Editorial data: Intervento al Convegno "Gli ausili informatici nella promozione dell’autonomia: riabilitazione, educazione, integrazione" (Prato 14/12/2002)
Abstract: (text automatically translated from Italian) To insert the technologies in a context of education of the customer to the independence, to promote the role of the customer like protagonist of the choices that regard its way towards the independence and integration, to form in the customer an informed, demanding and responsible attitude in the choice and the use of the functional technological assistive devices to such scope regards in a sure sense all the technical participations of support, is they simpler assistive devices to high technology, devices, supplied programs than personal attendance, participations on the environment, services ***dalla the community. It sure acquires but particular connotations when we speak about computer based assistive devices, or in general terms of assistive devices that live one galloping technological evolution: evolution that on one side exercises an action of influence on the culture, the customs, the way to communicate, on the way to even organize the domestic matters and that therefore it opens new scenes of daily life that before we did not know. In this panel, emergent the problematic article by analyzes to the today regarding the supply of the assistive devices the public service.
Year of publication: 2002
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2003
Andrich R
Communication devices for people with disabilities
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: The article contains a detailed introduction to communication aids and describes the main types of assistive devices that allow communication, writing and environmental control.
Year of publication: 2006
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2013
Communication devices for people with disabilities
Editorial data: Portale SIVA Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi
Abstract: The article contains a detailed introduction to communication aids and describes the main types of assistive devices that allow communication, writing and environmental control.
Year of publication: 2006
Type of document: Not published
Last update: May 2013