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International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs

ICCHP 2016: Computers Helping People with Special Needs pp 297–300Cite as

Easy Reader – or the Importance of Being Understood

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With current advancements in technologies like natural language processing engines and image recognition software the development of a tool that would automatically translate content, that is too difficult to understand for the individual person with cognitive disabilities, into an easier to understand, alternative format seems possible. In this paper we want to describe the idea to create a flexible extensible framework that would help people with cognitive disabilities to better understands and navigate web-content.

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

    Peter Heumader, Klaus Miesenberger & Andrea Petz

  2. inbut, Zell unter Aichelberg, Germany

    Cordula Edler

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  1. Peter Heumader
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Correspondence to Peter Heumader .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Heumader, P., Edler, C., Miesenberger, K., Petz, A. (2016). Easy Reader – or the Importance of Being Understood. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_40

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