PRISM
Lecture Series
and GIS Seminar Joint Talk
Accessibility Research at IBM
Chieko Asakawa, IBM
Fellow, IBM
Research - Tokyo
Hironobu Takagi, Senior
Technical Staff Member, IBM Research – Tokyo
September
30, 2013,
NAC 7/225, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Abstract:
Accessibility
technologies have been
empowering people with disabilities for education and work and
in their daily
lives by providing access to massive information resources and
various online
services, which are often inaccessible in the physical world.
IBM Research has
played an important role in this evolution since the early days
of personal
computers. In this presentation, we will first give an overview
of the history,
and introduce some of the contributions we were involved in,
such as IBM Hope
Page Reader, and then discuss our recent challenges to make our
real-world and
our society more accessible to people with disabilities and
senior citizens, in
the era of Cognitive Computing.
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