scholarly journals Propuestas de Soluciones TIC emergentes para Personas con Discapacidad

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Samuel Villegas ◽  
Wilfredo Talledo ◽  
Alfredo Barrientos Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
System A ◽  
Post Surgery ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Self Learning

<p>En la actualidad existe una gran búsqueda de una inclusión social total dentro del país, en la cual también considera a las personas con alguna deficiencia que les impida realizar actividades comunes en la vida cotidiana. La búsqueda de su mayor participación se potenció con la declaración de la Ley Nº 29973, Ley General de la Persona con Discapacidad (2012), que promueve la inclusión de estas personas, casi el 6% de la población total, en la vida política, económica, social, cultural y tecnológica. Esto crea la necesidad de conocer y saber qué opciones existen para facilitar la adopción de estas personas y también para mejorar su estilo de vida. Esta investigación busca proponer nuevos proyectos que mejoren la independencia y calidad de vida de las personas con discapacidad mediante el empleo y/o la adaptación de las características de tecnologías y soluciones existentes. En este trabajo se describe una forma de resolver la limitación comunicativa de los sordomudos con el uso de Creative, una cámara interactiva gestual, en un sistema de reconocimiento de señales; una aplicación de entrenamiento fonético como tratamiento para la pos-cirugía del labio leporino, una aplicación de una nueva interfaz móvil para una mayor accesibilidad de los ciegos, y una aplicación de autoaprendizaje braille con un teclado orientado para ciegos.</p><p>Today there is a great quest for a total social inclusion within the country that also considers people with disabilities that impair them from performing common activities in their daily lives. The search for their greater participation has been boosted with the statement of the Law 29973 (<em>Ley General de la Persona con Discapacidad</em>) (2012), that promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities, nearly 6% of the total population, into political, economic, social, cultural and technological life. This creates the need to know and find out what options exist to ease the adoption of these people and also to enhance their lifestyle. This research seeks to propose new projects that improve independence and quality of life for people with disabilities by employing and/or adapting existing features of technologies and solutions. In this paper, we describe a way to solve the communication limitation of the deaf-mute with the use of Creative, an interactive gesture camera, in a sign recognition system; a phonetic training application as a treatment for leporine post-surgery, a new mobile interface app for greater accessibility for the blind, and a braille app for self-learning with an blind-oriented keyboard.</p>

scholarly journals FACTORES QUE OBSTACULIZAN EL RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO Y/O PERMANENCIA UNIVERSITARIA DE LAS PERSONAS EN SITUACIÓN DE DISCAPACIDAD FÍSICA, VISUAL, AUDITIVA, MENTAL PSÍQUICA Y MENTAL INTELECTUAL.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 44-63
Author(s):  
Paola Andrea Ahumada Contreras ◽  
Amanda Roco Alvarado ◽  
Eduardo Ahumada Taverna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Calidad De Vida

Hoy en día la sociedad actual exige estándares mínimos de satisfacción que mejoren la calidad de vida de las personas. Las personas en situación de discapacidad, no se encuentran ajenas. En Chile a partir del año 2010, se promulga la ley n° 20.422, que establece las normas sobre igualdad de oportunidades e inclusión social de las personas en situación de discapacidad. Cambiando el paradigma social frente al concepto de inclusión de las personas en situación de discapacidad en todos ámbitos, sobre todo en el área educacional, donde el estado y los privados han tratado de reconocer sus deberes frente a esta temática. Sin embargo, no existe una delimitación clara en la educación superior. Es por ello, que se genera la necesidad como institución Santo Tomás, sede Iquique de crear un estudio que detecte los factores intrínsecos como extrínsecos que obstaculizan el rendimiento académico y/o permanencia en la educación superior de las personas en situación de discapacidad pertenecientes a esta institución. Para ello, se realiza una investigación de carácter exploratorio, de tipo cualitativo descriptivo, con un enfoque naturalista, ya que explora múltiples realidades de docentes y estudiantes de educación superior en situación de discapacidad. Este estudio concluye principalmente que los factores extrínsecos asociados al cuerpo académico y directivos son quienes poseen mayores factores obstaculizantes en cuanto al rendimiento académico y/o permanencia de las personas en situación de discapacidad, en Santo Tomás sede Iquique. Abstract Today's society demands minimum standards of satisfaction that improve the quality of life of people. People in a situation of disability are not strangers. In Chile, as of 2010, Law n ° 20,422 is promulgated, which establishes the rules on equal opportunities and social inclusion for people with disabilities. Changing the social paradigm to the concept of inclusion of people with disabilities in all areas, especially in the educational area, where the state and private have tried to recognize their duties in this area. However, there is no clear delineation in higher education. That is why the need is generated as an institution Santo Tomás, Iquique headquarters to create a study that detects the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that hinder the academic performance and / or permanence in higher education of people with disabilities belonging to this institution. For this purpose, an exploratory research is carried out, of a descriptive qualitative nature, with a naturalistic approach, since it explores multiple realities of teachers and students of higher education in a situation of disability. This study concludes mainly that the extrinsic factors associated to the academic body and managers are those who have major obstacles in terms of academic performance and / or permanence of people with disabilities, in Santo Tomás Iquique headquarters.

GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR NIGERIAN TRIBAL GREETING POSTURES USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Segun Aina ◽  
Kofoworola V. Sholesi ◽  
Aderonke R. Lawal ◽  
Samuel D. Okegbile ◽  
Adeniran I. Oluwaranti
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
System A ◽  
Extraction Algorithm ◽  
Gaussian Blur

This paper presents the application of Gaussian blur filters and Support Vector Machine (SVM) techniques for greeting recognition among the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria. Existing efforts have considered different recognition gestures. However, tribal greeting postures or gestures recognition for the Nigerian geographical space has not been studied before. Some cultural gestures are not correctly identified by people of the same tribe, not to mention other people from different tribes, thereby posing a challenge of misinterpretation of meaning. Also, some cultural gestures are unknown to most people outside a tribe, which could also hinder human interaction; hence there is a need to automate the recognition of Nigerian tribal greeting gestures. This work hence develops a Gaussian Blur – SVM based system capable of recognizing the Yoruba tribe greeting postures for men and women. Videos of individuals performing various greeting gestures were collected and processed into image frames. The images were resized and a Gaussian blur filter was used to remove noise from them. This research used a moment-based feature extraction algorithm to extract shape features that were passed as input to SVM. SVM is exploited and trained to perform the greeting gesture recognition task to recognize two Nigerian tribe greeting postures. To confirm the robustness of the system, 20%, 25% and 30% of the dataset acquired from the preprocessed images were used to test the system. A recognition rate of 94% could be achieved when SVM is used, as shown by the result which invariably proves that the proposed method is efficient.

Technological Aids for Deaf and Mute in Modern World

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasu Mehra ◽  
Dhiraj Pandey ◽  
Aayush Rastogi ◽  
Aditya Singh ◽  
Harsh Preet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Sign Language Recognition ◽  
Background Elimination ◽  
Sign Recognition ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Better Than

Background:: People suffering from hearing and speaking disabilities have a few ways of communicating with other people. One of these is to communicate through the use of sign language. Objective:: Developing a system for sign language recognition becomes essential for deaf as well as a mute person. The recognition system acts as a translator between a disabled and an able person. This eliminates the hindrances in exchange of ideas. Most of the existing systems are very poorly designed with limited support for the needs of their day to day facilities. Methods:: The proposed system embedded with gesture recognition capability has been introduced here which extracts signs from a video sequence and displays them on screen. On the other hand, a speech to text as well as text to speech system is also introduced to further facilitate the grieved people. To get the best out of human computer relationship, the proposed solution consists of various cutting-edge technologies and Machine Learning based sign recognition models which have been trained by using Tensor Flow and Keras library. Result:: The proposed architecture works better than several gesture recognition techniques like background elimination and conversion to HSV because of sharply defined image provided to the model for classification. The results of testing indicate reliable recognition systems with high accuracy that includes most of the essential and necessary features for any deaf and dumb person in his/her day to day tasks. Conclusion:: It’s the need of current technological advances to develop reliable solutions which can be deployed to assist deaf and dumb people to adjust to normal life. Instead of focusing on a standalone technology, a plethora of them have been introduced in this proposed work. Proposed Sign Recognition System is based on feature extraction and classification. The trained model helps in identification of different gestures.

scholarly journals Disability, Human Resources and Behavioral Economics: The Labour Inclusion Case of Ilunion Hotels of the Costa del Sol (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7932
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Cruz-Morato ◽  
Carmen Dueñas-Zambrana ◽  
Josefa García-Mestanza
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Social

The situation of labour inclusion of people with disabilities in Spain is still too negative, in spite of the different efforts carried out by public and private sector. Previous research points to social discrimination as one of the main causes of the situation. Ilunion Hotels is one of the most important hotel companies in Spain focused on labour inclusion of people with disabilities. The objective of this paper is to explore the social inclusion case of Ilunion Hotels of the Costa del Sol, the actions that they have developed to improve the labour integration of this collective, based on a behavioral economics theoretical model (with a high relevance of the influence of social stigma, stress theories and coping to stress responses). We look into the specific situation of two of the three hotels developed as Special Employment Centres (sheltered employment contexts defined by Spanish legislation) and the possible impact of their Support Units for Professional Activity. Case study methodology is considered the most appropriate, according to the research objective, supported by semi-structured interviews with the hotel managers. The results show that, although Special Employment Centres are effective in improving labour integration in the short term and could contribute to change the long-term social perspectives about workers with disabilities, they could be also reinforcing the social stigma existing in the ordinary market.

Sensor positioning for a human activity recognition system using a double layer classifier

2021 ◽  
pp. 095441192110405
Author(s):  
Mohamed H Abdelhafiz ◽  
Mohammed I Awad ◽  
Ahmed Sadek ◽  
Farid Tolbah
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Recognition Algorithm ◽  
Human Gait ◽  
System A ◽  
Election Method ◽  
Single Sensor ◽  
Feature Selector

This paper describes the development of a human gait activity recognition system. A multi-sensor recognition system, which has been developed for this purpose, was reduced to a single sensor-based recognition system. A sensor election method was devised based on the maximum relevance minimum redundancy feature selector to determine the sensor’s optimum position regarding activity recognition. The election method proved that the thigh has the highest contribution to recognize walking, stairs and ramp ascending, and descending activities. A recognition algorithm (which depends mainly on features that are classified by random forest, and selected by a combined feature selector using the maximum relevance minimum redundancy and genetic algorithm) has been modified to compensate the degradation that occurs in the prediction accuracy due to the reduction in the number of sensors. The first modification was implementing a double layer classifier in order to discriminate between the interfered activities. The second modification was adding physical features to the features dictionary used. These modifications succeeded to improve the prediction accuracy to allow a single sensor recognition system to behave in the same manner as a multi-sensor activity recognition system.

A Real-Time Speed Limit Sign Recognition System for Autonomous Vehicle Using SSD Algorithm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Nabilah Abu Mangshor ◽  
Nor Syahirah Saharuddin ◽  
Shafaf Ibrahim ◽  
Ahmad Firdaus Ahmad Fadzil ◽  
Khyrina Airin Fariza Abu Samah
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Speed Limit ◽  
Sign Recognition

scholarly journals Social determinants of health, inequality and social inclusion among people with disabilities

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Celia Fiorati ◽  
Valeria Meirelles Carril Elui
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Community Inclusion ◽  
The Social

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the socio-familial and community inclusion and social participation of people with disabilities, as well as their inclusion in occupations in daily life. METHOD: qualitative study with data collected through open interviews concerning the participants' life histories and systematic observation. The sample was composed of ten individuals with acquired or congenital disabilities living in the region covered by a Family Health Center. The social conception of disability was the theoretical framework used. Data were analyzed according to an interpretative reconstructive approach based on Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. RESULTS: the results show that the socio-familial and community inclusion of the study participants is conditioned to the social determinants of health and present high levels of social inequality expressed by difficult access to PHC and rehabilitation services, work and income, education, culture, transportation and social participation. CONCLUSION: there is a need to develop community-centered care programs in cooperation with PHC services aiming to cope with poverty and improve social inclusion.

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