October 2008
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MacBreakZ – Ergonomic assistant with improved tablet support
MacBreakZ is an ergonomic assistant which prompts the computer user to take long and short breaks at regular times, depending on how heavily you use the computer. It prompts the users with ergonomic exercises during breaks and can be heavily customised to suit usage patterns.
Optimism – Monitor Your Depressive Illness
Optimism is a program that helps you identify and keep track of things that impact your mental health. It helps you track possible triggers, symptoms, and strategies for staying well, and record your mood, coping, exercise, medication compliance, and sleep for each day.
iPod Touch Ideas For Stylus, Mouth Stick, and Head Pointer Users
Something as simple as tapping the screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch can be a big problem for people with physical disabilities. Here are some suggestions and alternative solutions that may help.
Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study – Chicago
The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology at Northwestern University is working on a project to build and evaluate new original technologies for users with disabilities. They are currently recruiting subjects with a variety of impairments (cognitive, sensory or motor) from the Chicago area.
Weekend Round-Up: Carnivals, Categories, and other Capers
The irregular weekend post for all those bits and pieces not big enough for their own post. There’s a new AT Blog Carnival edition, there’s a new categories page, and a new poll.
Dejal Narrator – Text to speech with easy voice changes
Dejal Narrator is a text to speech toold which allows you to set with different voices for different sections of text. It allows for multiple chapters in each document to help organize the story, uses a word replacement dictionary to fine-tune the pronunciation, and can export the story to a sound file or direct to iTunes.
Video iPods In Special Education
This video is about the use of video iPods in a special education classroom which caters for children with intellectual disabilities and language or hearing difficulties such that sign language (ASL) is their primary mode of communication.
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