P072 Humanitarian Computer Applications

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2000
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Ethically motivated applications are the main goal of this working seminary. The central theme is supporting visually impaired people. Some possible topics are:
  • Information systems for visually impaired people.
  • Orientation of blind people.
  • Obstacle detection.
  • Internet, WWW.
  • Computer games for blind people.
  • Applications of isolated word recognition.
  • Applications of speech synthesis.
  • Support of informatics studium for visually impaired.
  • Applications of ASR.
  • Work on a phonetical corpus.
  • And other topics - ideas are welcomed.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/stud.htm
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1997, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2001.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2000, recent)
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