The stands are foreseen as an informal opportunity
of meeting, presenting and discussing some equipment or some more specific
themes by the Experts, as well as some more general information by the
Associations of people with disbilities. Space will be available in
two meeting rooms and should be booked in advance (free of charge).
- Federico Neri, Synthema Software House,
the voice recognition propotype for on-line subtitling, developed for RAI
and under validation tests, with languages tools for improving the recognition
quality
- Angelo Paglino, FBL Software House:
demonstration of VoiceMeeting and VoiceSubtitler applications for videocassettes'
subtitling, developed by them, in addition to the initial VOICE prototype
also developed by them, in 1998, as partners of the VOICE Consortium
- Adriano Pirovano, educatore SFA
ANFASS Ticino, Associazione Nazionale Famiglie di Disabili Intellettivi
e Relazionali, Il progetto Atlantide - Il computer e la disabilità
psichica: un'esperienza multimediale
- Fernanda Fazio e Nicola Striano,
Progetto Didattica Integrata finalizzata alla produzione di un vocabolario
mutimediale per alunni con disabilità linguistiche
- Carla Finocchiaro, CF-Consulting,
GenDeaf and a few other projects on hearing impairment
- Filomena Di Silvio, Scripsi Studio
Sottotitoli, The day by day activity in a subtiling firm: the standard
equipment, how it works
- Rosario Marretta, Lions Club North-West
Lombardia (108 Ib1), co-ordinator of the Deafness Group: The spoken
book for people with visual impairment
- Debra Buttran and Marcello Galimberti
of AIUCA Association of dogs helping people with visual or hearing or phisical
impairment will present their activities and underline the need of a pass
ensuring recognition of assistant dogs for travelling and accessing buildings
(participation not confirmed, but documentation available)
- Luisa Paracchini, President
of the JRC-Ispra Photo Club, will offer to the participants a book with
pictures taken either by people with disabilities or by the members of the
Club on themes of disabilities; the pictures will be also exposed in the
conference's area, as well as some other JRC staff's activities for ETM
and Water
- Selection from the Italian RAI-3 television broadcast Racconti di Vita, by the journalist Giovanni Anversa,
giving a positive feeling of how it is possible to live, without loosing
enthousiasm, even within the limits of a disability
- Presentation of the VOICE Project by a selection from an interview
by the Italian Espansione TV television broadcast All 9000