Assistive Technology Workarounds for Social Networking

E.A. Draffan

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Photograph of Building 32 at Southampton University – taken at night.

Planning on a move?

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It has speech output, a built in word processor, offers high contrast mode, back up disks and is indestructible!

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This picture of a C64 computer with printer and copyholder was taken by Keith Paterson

The unique features of this PC, which could be plugged into a television set for video gaming, revolutionized the concept of entertainment in the 1980’s. Versatile and affordable, with sound and graphics capabilities way ahead of its time, the C64 brought home computing and personalized entertainment within the reach of almost everyone. Before long enthusiasts started to develop and share C64 software and games. A community of Commodore fans – and a legend – was born.

 

Desktop to Portable

Nuance Talks and Wayfinder

Leopard and Voice Over

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Leopard using VoiceOver as part of the Apple Mac system

Tablet PCs with One Note

Small Sony Vaio for computing on the move.

Nokia N75 with speech for navigation and content.

U3 demonstration of technology on the move with a USB memory drive.

Recording Devices

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Students are using technologies that are often free, social and portable

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Sarah uses her mobile phone to synchronise with Outlook, download podcasts and lecture notes.

Using CapturaTalk to scan and read when on the move.

Thunder USB flash drive running a program

Internet Usage

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Cartoon by Mark Parisi – off the mark.com “Don’t you think you’re becoming a little too reliant on your computer?”

New research suggests that young university hopefuls expect unrestricted access to the Internet

For further information please visit http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/news/fullstory.php?id=99

For the full report please visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/studentexpectations

Free Programs

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Free

yEd

Graph

tool

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Andy uses the free yEd graph maker for mind mapping ideas. http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.htm

Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

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Quick

Time Management – Tab Groups

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Robert makes tab groups to speed searching

Remote Assistance

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Social

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Theo uses Facebook

Blogs & Wikis

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Screen grabs of:

Ravensbourne College blog. http://blogs.rave.ac.uk/blojsom/blog/

The Student Room Disabled Students' FAQ

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Disabled_Students'_FAQ

E-learning 2.0

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Google to Speegle but watch out for WebinSight: AccessMonkey, WebAnywhere, WebinSitu

webinsight.cs.washington.edu/

Blogging with text to speech – (USA)

Updates on Assistive Technologies –

Surfing with Speech

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Meaning of AT?

Assistive Technologies

Access Technologies

Adaptive Technologies

Adjustable Technologies

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“Agile is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams with "just enough" ceremony that produces high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner  which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders.” Scott W. Ambler http://www.agilemodeling.com

Agile?

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“Agile is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to technology use which is performed in a collaborative manner by people with "just enough" ceremony that produces successful outcomes in a cost effective and timely manner  meeting the changing needs of its stakeholders.” Paraphrased from Scott W. Ambler – software engineer http://www.agilemodeling.com

Thank You

E.A. Draffan

Assistive Technologist & Research Fellow

Learning Societies Lab

University of Southampton

Mobile 07976 289103

E-mail: ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk

LexDis Project website

www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk

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