A communication system for people with special needs

Τίτλος

A communication system for people with special needs

Θέμα

People with disabilities

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Δημιουργός

Pieris, Andreas

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

2001

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

CSD0243

Σύνοψη

As it has been already noted in the Introduction the major scope of the "Communication
System for People with Special Needs", is to support people with mobility problems
who cannot communicate with their environment in the natural way. More specific, we
deal with people that have Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The major organisation,
involved, is the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING). This institute is a
non-profit medical and resear~h organisation, which is dedicated to lessening the
suffering of patients and their families through continuous patient care and research
programs on neurological and degenerative disorders. With co-operation with CING,
the project team will develop the system described in Introduction.
The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology will be followed in the
analysis of this project, the programming language Visual Basic 6.0 will be used for the
development of the project and finally the database package Microsoft Access 2000 will
be used to design the necessary tables for the project.
We had various programming languages available to select among them in order to
develop this project:
• Turbo Pascal 7.0
• Microsoft Visual C++
• Microsoft Visual Basic
After investigating the features and the benefits of these programming languages and
also take in mind how much familiar the development team is with each one of these
development tools, we decide that Microsoft Visual Basic is the most suitable language
to be used for the development of this project. (see Appendix D)
The project will provide the following features:
• User friendly environment with on-line help
• Special input devices to help immobile people to use the system
• Speech communication procedure
• Word processing using an on-screen keyboard
• Administration procedures for the database
• Security procedures
• ~uhilanguagesupport
• Telephone conversation procedure
• E-mail procedure