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Project Acronym |
WWAAC |
Proposal No |
IST-2000-27518 |
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Description of the work |
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In order to achieve the key objectives, the balanced consortium of four industrial, two research partners and two service providers have created a well integrated project workplan. The work has been divided into nine distinct workpackages, each being led by the most appropriate partner. The interrelationship between the various components and workpackages will being carefully managed by the project co-ordinator.
WP1, User-involvement and Evaluation, the ‘market square’ where user-involvement is assured throughout the lifetime of the project. A platform to maximise the quality of the developments and to perform initial market studies. WP2, Universal Concept Sets and Support modules, co-operating with WP3, it focuses on technology development by creating a concept list and software components for language structures. WP3, Linguistic structures for eMail and eChat, will set up the language material for symbol-users allowing them by message conversion to read & write messages for eMail and eChat conversations. WP4, User Interface: Design and models for evaluation, will address a sound and effective approach in performing and measuring the user-needs during the project, as being performed in WP1. WP5, Navigation and data management support, will address the problems encountered by users, such as navigation on the web and information management, e.g. address book maintenance. WP6, Developing of Internet Access Applications, will create three AAC-Internet access applications, based on the components developed in WP2, WP3 and WP5. WP7, Guidelines and tools for AAC-enabled Web Pages, will develop both guidelines and a web-authoring tool, to be used by Special-Information Providers. WP8, Dissemination and Exploitation Planning, dissemination of the project results, contacts with the WWW consortia and/or standardisation bodies, IPR activities and exploitation planning.
This project will result in a range of interrelated products and services which offer people with language and/or cognitive impairments access to several Internet services such as the Web, eMail and eChat. |