Masters Theses

The Cost of Turning Heads – The Design and Evaluation of Vocabulary Prompts on a Head-Worn Display to Support Persons with Aphasia in Conversation

The thesis researches the design and evaluation of vocabulary prompts on a head-worn display to support persons with aphasia in conversation.

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The Spoken Impact Project: Using Audio & Visual Feedback to Impact Vocalization in Non-Verbal Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

In this research, called the Spoken Impact Project (SIP), we explore the effects of audio and visual feedback on vocalization in low-functioning children with ASD

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Web 2.0 and Dyslexia

Understanding how people with dyslexia interact with the social bookmarking service Del.ico.us using eye tracking.

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Myographic Mobile Accessibility for Tetraplegics

we present an approach to allow interaction between tetraplegic users and mobile devices

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Design and Evaluation of Auditory Spatial Cues for Decision Making Within a Game Environment for Persons With Visual Impairments

An audio platform game was created and evaluated in order to answer the question of whether or not an audio game could be designed that effectively conveys the spatial information necessary for persons with visual impairments to successfully navigate the game levels and respond to audio cues in time to avoid obstacles.

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How to Integrate Wireless Technology with Web Services Technology to Support and Enhance Sign Languages Learning?

This project researches a new concept of Sign Language mobile learning.

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Using a Common Accessibility Profile to Improve Accessibility

A reference model is presented to act as a theoretical foundation. This Universal Access Reference Model (UARM) focuses on the accessibility of the interaction between users and systems, and provides a mechanism to share knowledge and abilities between users and systems.

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Evaluation of a Haptic Tongue Device

This thesis improves a prototype device that has been built to fit onto the tongue and receive visual information in a tactile form

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The Accessibility and Usability of Websites: Relationships between Measures from Users, Experts and Guidelines

Overall, the main outcome from this study shows that the severity ratings provided by the accessibility and usability guidelines are not valid: although researchers and participants agree each other both within and between groups, there is no agreement with the guidelines’ ratings of severity.

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SADIe: Structural Semantics for Accessibility and Device Independence

By using ontologies to capture the semantics of the CSS Stylesheets and XHTML, the implicit information contained within a web page can be reordered and manipulated into an explicit form that better suits the needs of visually impaired users.

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