Project Results
Overall resultsPublications about the ProjectReports about the ProjectCitationsIn this research project, fundamental scientific research has been carried out in the field of information and communication technologies and partly in the humanities and social sciences on the availability and improvement of digital accessibility of diverse objects and knowledge for people with visual and cognitive disabilities. The team consists of 9 members from 2 institutions (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Robotics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). The project and team leader is Prof. Dr. Eng. Galina Bogdanova. The project topic determined some specific characteristics of the team: an interdisciplinary team of diverse experts (computer scientists, engineers, humanitarians), as well as 3 participants with special needs (two with 100% visual impairments).
Main Results:
Digital repository with processed and accessible digital multimedia resourcesExperimental Ecosystem AB
New interface design for people with sensory deficits
New interfaces for human-robot interaction in a cyber-physical context
Educational materials
Software platforms for controlling the humanoid robot NAO
Situational context for abstract robots
Evaluation methodology
Semantic model of accessibility knowledge