Hello developers and researchers at Gatech RERC,
I am interested in making products more usable, but there is always
a limit on what can be done on mass-market products because of
cost constraints. Therefore, it is proposed that each such product
has a means of access itself via an wireless link, such as Bluetooth.
The basic idea is that the product's user interface is extended
over the link to a personal accessor device (PAD), using a standard
protocol. Then each person with a particular access problem can
have a PAD to suit themselves, and use it to access all appliances
that support the protocol. The same PAD could be used to access
mobile phones, television sets and ATMs.
The TRACE center has gone a long way along this route with the
"universal remote" which is a kind of PAD, and which supports a protocol
called AIAP developed by the 'V2' committee.
My company, Cloudworld, is working in a European project called SILC,
and the spin-off is a wrist-warn PAD with Bluetooth. We have been
in contact with Thad Starner and the wearables group based at Gatech
like yourselves. There could be a lot of common ground.
I have written a paper on the PAD approach, see
http://www.cloudworld.co.uk/bridgingthegap.htm
Cheers from Chiswick,
John
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>>Press Release
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>>Invitation to Participate in a Survey on Telecommunication Technologies
>>
>>The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Wireless
>>Technologies for Persons with Disabilities ("The Wireless RERC") is
>>gathering input about how people with disabilities use products and
>>services like telephones, remote controls, pagers, computers, and the
>>internet. Results of this research will help identify ways to make these
>>products more usable for people with or without disabilities.
>>
>>The survey takes about 15-20 minutes to complete and is available on the
>>internet at
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>>http://www.wirelessrerc.gatech.edu/survey/coverletter.html. Survey
>>participants are eligible to join the Center's Consumer Advisory Network of
>>people with disabilities. Those who join this network will be invited
>>periodically to complete written surveys, participate in live or on-line
>>focus groups, and test out new products and services.
>>
>>For more information or to request a paper copy of the survey, please email
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Access the word, access the world! -- Try our WordAloud software!!
John Nissen, Cloudworld Ltd., Chiswick, London
Tel: +44 (0) 845 458 3944 (local rate in the UK)
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8742 8715
Web: http://www.cloudworld.co.uk
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