Universal Access in the Information Society

Purpose: Some universal accessibility practitioners have voiced that they experience a mismatch in the research focus and the need for knowledge within specialized problem domains. This study thus set out to identify the balance of research into ...

Purpose Students in higher education are a diverse group comprising people with different backgrounds and abilities. Regulations require that digital learning materials and platforms employed in higher education accommodate this diversity. ...

Freshmen in Higher Education are required to exhibit a strong inclination to taking ownership of their own learning. It entails well-developed self-regulated learning competences. This demand is further exacerbated in purely online settings such ...

An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) provides universal access to education, which is an emerging paradigm of modern education. ITS is an educational tool that provides learners with adaptive and real-time instructional content, wherever they ...

This article focuses on building a prototyping for immersive captioning following a user-centric approach. This methodology is characterised by following a bottom-up approach, where usability and user needs are at the heart of the development. ...

Audio description (AD) is a narration technique that allows visually impaired people to experience movies. However, high-quality AD production is expensive, preventing its widespread adoption. The quality of synthesized-voice AD is inferior to ...

This paper proposes a new approach to universal access based on the premise that humans have the universal capacity to engage emotionally with a story, whatever their ability. Our approach is to present the “story” of museum resources and ...

Emerging intelligent environments are considered to offer significant opportunities to positively impact human life, both at an individual and at a societal level, and in particular to provide useful means to support people in their daily life ...

Ambient assisted living aims to support the well-being of people with special needs by offering assistive solutions. Systems focused on dementia increase the autonomy of people living with dementia by monitoring their activities. Topics such as ...

This study aimed to understand the digital divide in Korea by analyzing the digital competence and Internet use/behavior of persons with disabilities (PwD) in the context of PC and smart device use. Data from the 2018 Information Divide Index ...

New methods of identifying and fixing accessibility issues on websites are presented in this article. The websites taken into consideration by the research are created with content management systems (like WordPress or Joomla!). Our main goal was ...

People who are blind or visually impaired exhibit different interaction and access needs on mobile touchscreen devices. This is rooted in the reliance on non-visual access for using electronic devices. In comparison to regular computers, non-...

This article presents a model for the therapeutic process and the interaction between the patient and mental health professional, assisting in the treatment of anxiety disorder. The proposed model uses the Dysfunctional Thinking Record, a tool ...

This paper presents an augmented reality (AR)-based game for childhood education. The developed AR game teaches children by giving them tasks and providing guidance to complete them on time. The developed model discussed in the paper is focusing ...

As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure has rapidly become commonplace in most countries worldwide, the development of ICT-related competence is now considered to be a key goal in Taiwan’s curriculum. Nowadays, society ...