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Underestimated Cerebral Visual Impairment Requires Innovative Thinking When Using AT

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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The impact of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) obviously is widely underestimated and knowledge about CVI is not widespread. This article illustrates in which way the dysfunction of visually guided handmovements as well as simultanous attention demands rethinking hardware design especially of input devices. CVI dysfunctions are manyfold and special software is needed. The challenges of some aspects of CVI may be met by everyday hardware as modern smartphones providing numerous software which might show to be useful, even if designed for other purposes than CVI-rehabilitation. It is possible that useful software is already created (or may be created) when the open system invites to creative program develpement from the public. The role of user centered design should therefore be given more attention.

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  1. Senior Advisors, NAV National Center for Assistive Technology, Oslo, Norway

    Michael Cyrus & Frank Lunde

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study,, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Cyrus, M., Lunde, F. (2010). Underestimated Cerebral Visual Impairment Requires Innovative Thinking When Using AT. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_45

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