Objective The project will make several Internet services accessible for persons with language and/or cognitive impairments, including symbol users and a part of the elderly population. An universal coding system will be developed for message encoding which can be used for eMail, eChat or enhancing web-page information. This will be promoted as a public standard. Six national and three symbol languages will be involved. Additional support for handling information and navigation by people with cognitive, motor and/or language disorders will be developed. Software applications will be made with appropriate user interfaces, presenting the message content in multiple ways such as by text, speech or by symbols. For information providers, web-guidelines and an authoring tool will be developed. Educational and rehabilitation centres, organisations for the elderly involved in ICT, several AAC-focused companies, are all involved in the User platform. Representing a wide geographical spread (at least 6 countries) they will ensure optimal user-focused design, qualitative evaluation of the results and a coherent and realistic exploitation planning.DESCRIPTION OF WORKIn order to achieve the key objectives, the balanced consortium of four industrial, two research partners and two service providers have created a well integrated project workplan. The work has been divided into nine distinct workpackages, each being led by the most appropriate partner. The interrelationship between the various components and workpackages will be carefully managed by the project co-ordinator. WP1 - User-involvement and Evaluation, the "market square" where user-involvement is assured throughout the lifetime of the project. A platform to maximise the quality of the developments and to perform initial market studies. WP2 - Universal Concept Sets and Support modules, co-operating with WP3, it focuses on technology development by creating a concept list and software components for language structures. WP3 - Linguistic structures for eMail and eChat, will set up the language material for symbol-users allowing them by message conversion to read & write messages for eMail and eChat conversations. WP4 - User Interface: Design and models for evaluation, will address a sound and effective approach in performing and measuring the user-needs during the project, as being performed in WP1. WP5 - Navigation and data management support, will address the problems encountered by users, such as navigation on the web and information management, e.g. address book maintenance. WP6 - Developing of Internet Access Applications, will create three AAC-Internet access applications, based on the components developed in WP2, WP3 and WP5. WP7 - Guidelines and tools for AAC-enabled Web Pages, will develop both guidelines and a web-authoring tool, to be used by Special-Information Providers. WP8 - Dissemination and Exploitation Planning, dissemination of the project results, contacts with the WWW consortia and/or standardisation bodies, IPR activities and exploitation planning. WP9 - Management. As with all projects spanning different organisations and member states, well-organised management is needed to deal with financial and organisational matters. This project will result in a range of interrelated products and services which offer people with language and/or cognitive impairments access to several Internet services such as the Web, eMail and eChat.MILESTONESM1 - A solid foundation for the project has been laid consisting of the User Requirements, the Technology Specification and the IPR Agreement. M2 - The project's viability has been optimised, based on a user-based feasibility study, evaluation of the state-of-the-art Internet technologies and a detailed assessment of the market. M3 - Alpha versions of the software for initial user-centered evaluations, followed by M4 - Beta versions for full evaluations. M5 - Project will be completed with final reports, guidelines, implementation plans and software modules. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet accessmedical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications Programme(s) FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002" Topic(s) IST-1999-1.3.1 - Systems and services for independent living Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator HANDICOM EU contribution No data Address Oranjelaan 29 3843 AA Harderwijk Netherlands See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FEMTIO PROCENT DATA AB Sweden EU contribution No data Address Godhemsgatan 2c 434 41 Kungsbacka See on map Total cost No data KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN Sweden EU contribution No data Address Valhallavagen 79 100 44 Stockholm See on map Total cost No data LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Ashby road LE11 3TU Loughborough, leicestershire See on map Total cost No data PALLE MADSEN Denmark EU contribution No data Address Naeraparken 49 5792 Arslev See on map Total cost No data SKUUTTI KY Finland EU contribution No data Address Vattuniemenkatu 18 00210 Helsinki See on map Total cost No data THE ACE CENTRE ADVISORY TRUST LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address 92 windmill road, headington OX3 7DR Oxford See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Nethergate DD1 4HN Dundee See on map Total cost No data VASTRA GOTALANDS LANS LANDSTING Sweden EU contribution No data Address Moderforvaltningen, regionens hus 46280 Vanersborg See on map Total cost No data