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MULTIsensory Interaction and Assistive Technology: Feasibility and Effectiveness (MULTI-AT)

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The wide availability of human-computer interfaces which stimulate our senses (vision, hearing and touch) does not equally serve all categories of end users: people with sensory and/or motor disabilities cannot access information as the majority does, because solutions for the wider public are implicitly designed for persons with average sensory abilities. Assistive technologies exploit alternative stimulation methodologies complementing the residual sensory channels. Successful implementations would give people with disabilities the possibility of using everybody's human-computer interfaces or the possibility of developing new interfaces for therapeutic and rehabilitation purposes.
However, many assistive devices, which look promising at a superficial level, do not go beyond initial curiosity. The most common sources of failure are, at the design stage, the lack of serious clinical tests proving the effectiveness of the stimulation methods. At the end user level, instead, failure comes from the interference of this new signal with the residual sensory channels and/or the negative impact in the social life of the person. For these reasons the joint effort of researchers and experts in the rehabilitation field is a mandatory step to design well-targeted, useful, socially acceptable novel devices.
The goal of this workshop is to attract contributions from scientists working on multisensory perception and related methodologies, to technologists and engineers interested in investigating alternative solutions for multisensory stimulation and to clinicians interested in developing new therapeutic strategies based on novel interfaces.
The ultimate purpose of this workshop is to integrate common interests in an interdisciplinary fashion from experts of different fields, which stem from the needs of end users and span up to technological solutions.

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ITS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces
November 2015
522 pages
ISBN:9781450338998
DOI:10.1145/2817721
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Published: 15 November 2015

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  1. acoustic feedback
  2. cognition
  3. haptic displays
  4. human machine interfaces
  5. multisensory perception
  6. neuroprosthetics
  7. rehabilitation.
  8. robotics
  9. sensory impairment
  10. tactile displays

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ITS '15: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
November 15 - 18, 2015
Madeira, Portugal

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