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This paper proposes a framework for improving design of MAT Mobile Assistive Technology vehicles by applying the model driven generative domain engineering method to develop self-organizing architectural solutions for mobile vehicles. Developments were carried out by using the Rhapsody™ tool, a MDD Model Driven Development environment for embedded...
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... To support this statement, Adam and Kreps (2006) see availability and appropriate technology an integral part of the social model of disability. Dragoicea et al. (2009) further claim that the social model is the driving force behind recent improvements in access and that the tools of assistive technologies could enhance social inclusiveness. Similarly, Sheldon (2001) declares that the social model sees technology as enabling people with disability to be included in the mainstream of social and economic activity through the removal of disabling barriers. ...
This paper investigated the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in information delivery for people with visual impairment and on wheelchairs in Tanzanian academic libraries. A pragmatism paradigm and the social model of disability of Oliver were employed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Questionnaire, interview schedules and an observation checklist were used to collect data. The study population comprised library directors, other professional library staff, disability unit staff, people with visual impairment, and on wheelchairs and staff from the Ministry of Education’s Special Needs Unit. A sample of 196 respondents was surveyed. The study found that ICTs facilitated information provision for people with these disabilities but that there was no adaptive or assistive equipment in Tanzanian academic libraries for them. Academic libraries should install assistive ICT equipment to facilitate information delivery easily, independently and remotely to people with visual impairments and in wheelchairs.
This article is based on a study that examined library services provision for people with
visual impairments and in wheelchairs in academic libraries in Tanzania. The article looks at
access to the information resources available and the layout of library buildings in five
universities in Tanzania. The broader issues in this study were grounded in the importance
of access to information as a fundamental right and, particularly, in university studies. The
study drew on a pragmatism paradigm and the social model of disability of Oliver which ...
This is a text book for the "Real Time Systems" lecture. It presents to students the main aspects of real-time systems development, from a model-driven perspective. Overall, the text book intends to present object oriented technology terminology, from two perspectives: modelling and programming. The book has a special chapter dedicated to the UML standard, with a special introduction of the SysML extension standard. Then aspects of Java programming, with emphasis on concurrency patterns are presented. The last part of the book presents a software engineering tool, the Rational Rhapsody, that is used to describe UML executable models. At the end, an example of application of this working style is presented, taking into consideration the case of "Assistive Mobile Robot Technology" (MAT Design).
