FI:PV180 Assistive technologies II - Course Information
PV180 Assistive technologies II
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 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. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc. - Timetable
- Fri 12:00–13:50 B411
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (! PV180 Assistive technologies II )||SOUHLAS
- 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
- there are 37 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The seminar deals with ethically motivated applications of the computer science, especially with supporting visually impaired people. The main goal is to present the state of the art of the assistive technolohies and to outline the future challenges and possibilities.
- Syllabus
- Ethically motivated applications are the main topic of this working seminary. The central theme is supporting visually impaired people. Some typical issues are as follows:
- 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 - all ideas of students are welcomed.
- Literature
- Computers helping people with special needs : 11th international conference : ICCHP 2008 : Linz, Austria, July 9-11, 2008 : proceedings. Edited by Klaus Miesenberger. Berlin: Springer, 2008, 1350 s. ISBN 9783540705390. info
- Assessment methods
- It is assumed that the students will be participate actively on the seminar program. The course can be passed by credit or colloqium. The more detailed information about the requirements for obtaining credit or colloqiun are given on the beginning of the seminar.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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