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DIGITAL AGE TECHNOLOGYAssistive Technology

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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Introduction Definition Interactions

Conclusion Questions session

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WHAT DO ALL OF THESE HAVE IN COMMON

Assistive Technology

Remember Milk

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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Low Technology Medium Technology High technology

Examples???

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FOR WHOM

Do you use a form of AT ???Yes

What Is it?

Can you think of somebody who doesn’t use AT?

No

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REMEMBER THESE ….

Assistive Technologie

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DIGITAL AGE TECHNOLOGY AND AT

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Processing

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3

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STAGE 1 : DATA INPUT

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STAGE 2 : PROCESSING

Data is Input

Voice input is sampled

Converted to

binary

Binary data

converted to

actions

Data is output

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STAGE 3 : OUTPUT ACTION

Phone calls selected contact

Music Player plays selected song

Processed Action

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HOW DOES THIS HELP?

Faster Natural to speak Inclusive Interactive learning

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THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE

Text to speech

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COMPUTING POWER

Moore's law

This has allowed for smaller portable devices to contain high processing power on the go.

The Laptop has allowed users to be more productive and hence this assists user to achieve more.

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WHERE CAN I FIND AT..

Most modern Operating systems have it built in.

Windows vista has speech recognition built into it http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windo

wsvista/speech.aspx

Mac – has a tool called Voice over that is more integrated with other devices on the market http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/dev

icesupport.html

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FUN WITH ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

RealD’s 3D Glasses fit this description, since they are a simple device that when a 3D image is projected the lenses in the glasses are polarised and this allows for different parts of the image to be displayed and hence the image can seem like it has become 3D

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IS ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY USEFUL

•Yes

•Used in a wide range of places with out even known

•No longer the secret of the digital age

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REFERENCES

Apple’s Commitment to accessibility http://www.apple.com/accessibility/

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ANY QUESTIONSThank you for your Time