Main description:

This book was stimulated by the third Cambridge Workshop Series on Universal Access and Assistive Technology held in April 2006; the contributors represent leading researchers in the fields of Inclusive Design, Rehabilitation Robotics, Universal Access and Assistive Technology. Contributions focus on design issues for a more inclusive world; enabling computer access and the development of new technologies; assistive technology and rehabilitation robotics; and understanding users and involving them in design.

Contents:

Design Issues for a More Inclusive World.- The Inclusive Challenge: A Multidisciplinary Educational Approach.- Universal Design in Japanese Technological Industries.- Encouraging Inclusive Design Through Standardisation.- Factors Involved in Industry's Response to Inclusive Design.- Providing Strategic User Information for Designers: Methods and Initial Findings.- Design for Inclusion.- Designers' Use of the Artefact in Human-centred Design.- Enabling Computer Access and the Development of New Technologies.- Introducing COGAIN - Communication by Gaze Interaction.- Older Users' Requirements for Interactive Television.- InclusiveCAD: A Software Resource for Designers.- Towards an Interactive System Eliciting Narrative Comprehension in Children with Autism: A Longitudinal Study.- Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Robotics.- Collaborative Visual-servoing of the MANUS Manipulator.- User-centred Approach to the Design and Evaluation of a Stair-climbing Aid.- The SMART Project: A User Led Approach to Developing Applications for Domiciliary Stroke Rehabilitation.- Non-speech Operated Emulation of Keyboard.- Dysarthric Speech Measures for Use in Evidence-based Speech Therapy.- Non-formal Therapy and Learning Potentials Through Human Gesture Synchronised to Robotic Gesture.- Understanding Users and Involving Them in the Design Process.- Inclusive Design Evaluation and the Capability-demand Relationship.- Investigating the Role of Experience in the Use of Consumer Products.- Software Co-design with Older People.- Creating User Centred Creative Design Tools for the Packaging Industry Using Video Ethnographic Research Techniques.- Differing Perspectives on Telecare: An Attitudinal Survey of Older People, Professional Care Workers and Informal Carers.- Away from Home (Public) Toilet Design: Identifying User Wants, Needs and Aspirations.- Involving People with Dementia in the Development of a Discussion Forum: A Community-centred Approach.