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Promoting regional coherence and cohesion amidst multiple assistive technology initiatives in Africa
African Journal of Disability, 2022 Background: Appropriate provision of assistive technology services (ATS) and products are a global health issue and essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Sixth African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability (AfriNEAD)
Surona J. Visagie +3 more
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Usability Study of Tactile and Voice Interaction Modes by People with Disabilities for Home Automation Controls [PDF]
ICCHP-AAATE 2022 Open Access Compendium ''Assistive Technology,
Accessibility and (e)Inclusion'', Jul 2022, Lecco, Italy. pp.139-147,
\&\#x27E8;10.1007/978-3-031-08645-8\_17\&\#x27E9, 2022 This paper presents a comparative usability study on tactile and vocal interaction modes for home automation control of equipment at home for different profiles of disabled people. The study is related to the HIP HOPE project concerning the construction of 19 inclusive housing in the Toulouse metropolitan area in France.
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Methods for working with problem residents in medical physics residency education
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Medical physics residency training programs may occasionally encounter residents requiring additional intervention beyond normal training efforts. In the literature, these residents are referred to as “problem” residents. While the physician literature on the subject is valuable, this paper specifically focuses on dealing with a problem ...
Christopher J. Watchman, Dandan Zheng
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Research Involvement and Engagement, 2023 While much attention and emphasis have been given to the role and value of advisory groups in social science research, less has been published on the experiences of those involved in such collaborative efforts. This article reflects on the experiences of
Eppie Leishman +7 more
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Areas of Strategic Visibility: Disability Bias in Biometrics [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This response to the RFI considers the potential for biometrics to help or harm disabled people2. Biometrics are already integrated into many aspects of daily life, from airport travel to mobile phone use. Yet many of these systems are not accessible to people who experience different kinds of disability exclusion .
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Risk analysis of the Unity 1.5T MR‐Linac adapt‐to‐shape workflow
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Purpose The adapt‐to‐shape (ATS) workflow on the Unity MR‐Linac (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden) allows for full replanning including recontouring and reoptimization5. Additional complexity to this workflow is added when the adaptation involves the use of MIM Maestro (MIM Software, Cleveland, OH) software in conjunction with ...
Jiayi Liang +13 more
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Trends in Hearing, 2014 This study compared elderly hearing aid (EHA) users and elderly normal-hearing (ENH) individuals on identification of auditory speech stimuli (consonants, words, and final word in sentences) that were different when considering their linguistic ...
Shahram Moradi +3 more
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Automated Ableism: An Exploration of Explicit Disability Biases in Sentiment and Toxicity Analysis Models [PDF]
Proceedings at The Third Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language
Processing collocated at the 61st Annual Meeting Of The Association For
Computational Linguistics. 2023, 2023 We analyze sentiment analysis and toxicity detection models to detect the presence of explicit bias against people with disability (PWD). We employ the bias identification framework of Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis to examine conversations related to PWD on social media platforms, specifically Twitter and Reddit, in order to gain insight into how ...
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Neural Plasticity, 2018 Congenital deafness is often compensated by early sign language use leading to typical language development with corresponding neural underpinnings.
Josefine Andin +3 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2018 This paper investigates the use and validity of the International Classification of Functioning disability and health (ICF) as a common language for describing inclusive educational settings.
Gregor R. Maxwell +5 more
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