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Computers and People with Disabilities

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 1992
Editors' comments: “Computers and People with Disabilities” is a reprint of an article originally published in Communications of the ACM in 1992. In this article, Glinert and York issued a “call-to-arms” for research and development on technologies for people with disabilities.
Ephraim P. Glinert, Bryant W. York
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Socialware for People with Disabilities

6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2007
Socialware is multiagent systems for supporting social activities in the symbiotic society. In this article, we focused on supporting people with cognitive disabilities such as dementia, aphasia, higher cerebral dysfunction and aged people with cognitive decline.
Fumio Hattori   +4 more
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Inclusion of People with Disabilities

Science, 2003
The brief note “nas elects recorD number of women” by Jeffrey Mervis (ScienceScope, 2 May, p. 717) reports on a very important advancement for U.S. science policy. The push to elect more women to the U.S. National Academies is most important, and we congratulate the 17 women in the incoming class of 72 members.
Rory A, Cooper, Katherine D, Seelman
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Wearables and People With Disabilities

2016
Assistive technology including wearables, have a positive impact towards changing the lives of people with disabilities. Advances in glass, electronics, sensors, and a wide range of digital devices are substantially improving how people with disabilities (PWD) navigate the world, and allow greater possibilities for PWD who are competing in today's job ...
Damara Goff Paris, Katrina R. Miller
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Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to Be Disabled

Ethics, 2005
Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing.
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Workspace for disabled people

Ergonomics, 1989
The paper aims at determining the workspace for disabled young people. The investigation embraced a group of young people with motor dysfunction of lower extremities. Seventeen measurements were taken of 32 boys and 45 girls aged 15-18. There are significant differences in functional dimensions of the arm between the healthy and the disabled ...
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People with Disabilities

2005
Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice affects people with disabilities. It describes the interrelationships between disability, poverty, and inequality. It documents how access to healthcare and disability-specific resources adversely affects people with disabilities.
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