AsTeRICS, a flexible AT construction set Ossmann, Roland; Parker, Stefan; Thaller, David ...
International journal of adaptive control and signal processing,
December 2014, Letnik:
28, Številka:
12
Journal Article
Over the last decades a considerable number of information and communication technology based Assistive Technology devices have become available for people with disabilities. These Assistive ...Technology devices often ask for adaptation of software and/or hardware to fit the users abilities before they can be used.
Within the Project AsTeRICS, a flexible and affordable construction set for the implementation of user driven assistive technologies solutions will be developed. This allows the combination of different sensors to process and manipulate the sensor data to control any supported device. This paper will show how a webcam mouse (head tracker) and a single switch mouse can easily be created and tailored to the user needs and possibilities. Additionally, results of user tests with the head tracker will be presented.
Alastair Parvin, an architectural and strategic designer at 00:/, calls for a focus on ‘the opposite side of the urbanisation story: the impact that urbanisation has on rural areas’. He advocates a ...rural design revolution that re‐engages with farming and the countryside as a site of intense production, rather than as a preserve for nostalgia and leisure activities.
We have designed and developed a 3D digital Lego system as an education tool for teaching security protocols effectively in Information Assurance courses (Lego is a trademark of the LEGO Group. Here, ...we use it only to represent the pieces of a construction set.). Our approach applies the pedagogical methods learned from toy construction sets by treating security primitives as Lego pieces and protocols as construction results. Simulating the Lego toys, the digital Legos use matching shapes to help students understand the relationships among security primitives and protocols. Specifically, we present a flexible Lego generation method that can use various intuitive shapes to represent abstract and complex security protocols. Our design allows easy generation of new Lego sets and creation of different course materials. The integrated system also provides 3D interaction methods that simulate the real Lego building experience. For selected security courses, we have designed sample demonstrations and experiments for a set of important protocols. The initial evaluation results show encouraging feedback from students on using digital Legos in introductory security courses.
This article analyses the toy house as an object away from its usual context, using a
socio-anthropological approach. In an earlier publication (2003),
Brougère analysed the social dimension of the ...toy where it was viewed as
part of a socially built system of networks involving many actors (manufacturers,
parents, children and others) and many processes (manufacturing, distributing,
advertising, buying, giving presents, using, playing, destroying). However, this
interdependent system must be considered first through the objects that form the
nodes of this network as only by examining its material culture can we can better
understand the way it functions.
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