Computer Aided Archive System for People with Mobility, Visibility, Audibility and Speech Impairments
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Authors
Roman, Catalin
Issue Date
2007
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Computer science , Archive , Disability , Computer assistance
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Abstract
In recent years there has been an increasing demand for archiving in a great number of office places, such as police, FBI, IRS, Government, hospitals, embassies, universities, public libraries, military environment places and pretty much every medium- to-large-size business, organization or institution. Much effort has been made to provide access to archive files faster and in a more accessible manner. As we all know, archiving work requires a lot of time, attention and patience. Little attention has been paid, though, to make such work accessible to individuals with impairments. To address this, we have developed a new computer-aided system able to identify in any moment the location of a particular file in an archive by aid of a micro-chip attached to each file. Once an impaired person uses the computer to search a needed file and the Enter key is pressed, the drawer holding that file will automatically open and the file will be pushed up to make it easy for the person to grab it. This system will, therefore, tremendously decrease the time needed to access the files in an archive.
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© ASEE 2007
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ASEE