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Online Gardening to Promote Social Inclusion

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2002)

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There are several European initiatives aimed at producing rehabilitation and associated technologies, in response to a strong North American market created through Disability Act Legislation [1]. In the past we have developed projects that provide vocationally based work tutors to teach a range of horticulture, IT, catering and soft skills. These projects include the provision of virtual reality and multimedia based materials to develop the first of these vocational skills - horticulture.

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  1. Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Computing and Mathematics, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, UK

    S. J. Battersby, D. J. Brown & H. M. Powell

  2. Thrive, The Geoffrey Udall Centre, Reading, UK

    N. Kelly

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  1. SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 4, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Joachim Klaus

  3. i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/366-1B, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Battersby, S.J., Kelly, N., Brown, D.J., Powell, H.M. (2002). Online Gardening to Promote Social Inclusion. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_31

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