Category: MASCOT
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Disability, impairment, activity limitation, what this?
Common parlance generally speaks of “handicap”; but there is a difference between disability, impairment and other terms defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). When a medical diagnosis is made, it is primarily a finding of impairment, according to the terminology adopted by the WHO. The deficiency (sensory in the case of vision) leads to…
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Augmented reality for the creation and use of audio-tactile documents
Background and objectives Whether at school, in daily life or in professional life, we need to consult maps, diagrams, graphs, etc. These maps are necessary for building skills and mental models used in many fields (geography, biology, mathematics, mechanics, etc.). For people with visual impairments, access to these different graphics is not excellent, which can…