Technology

This article is the third in a series about the CulturAll 2.0 Network, a national multi-sector network funded by the Dept. of Canadian Heritage and led by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, developing innovative approaches and tools to ensure that everyone in Canada can participate in Canadian cultural exchange online. When we see something interesting or informative, the degree to which it impacts us depends on a degree of trust – how credible do we find it? Context is important here: The less “meta” information we have about something, the more help we need in assessing it.   
By Stephen Hockema and Sambhavi Chandrashekar
November 2008

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July 2008

This article is the second in a series of articles about the CulturAll 2.0 Network, a national multi-sector network developing innovative approaches, tools and strategies to ensure that everyone in Canada can participate in the Canadian cultural exchange online. The Smart Campus in Your Pocket (SCYP) Project, based at the University of Toronto’s Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC), is recruiting students, disability advocacy groups and industrial partners into a variety of research and development activities focused on the design of innovative and inclusive mobile technologies that accommodate the wide variety of physical, social, cultural and educational needs and preferences of Canadians.   
By Jorge Silva
July 2008

This article is the first in a series of articles about the CulturAll 2.0 Network, a national multisector network developing innovative approaches, tools and strategies to ensure that everyone in Canada can participate in the Canadian cultural exchange online. As the Web becomes a participatory forum for bidirectional communication, social networking, cultural innovation and collaborative cultural production, it becomes even more important that people with disabilities not be excluded. Through strategic applied research and pioneering exemplars, the CulturAll 2.0 Network will work to make certain that inclusive design becomes a naturally integrated component of Web 2.0 technologies and reaffirm that advances benefit all Canadians.  
By Anastasia Cheetham
April 2008

The CulturAll network is a national network of consumer groups, researchers and companies developing innovative approaches, tools and strategies to ensure that everyone in Canada can participate in the Canadian cultural exchange online. The first phase of CulturAll drew to a close on March 31st. We hope to move to a second phase to tackle a critical challenge and opportunity facing the disability community today.   
By Jutta Treviranus
April 2007

Meet Steve Mann, director of the EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab (ePI Lab) and a professor at the University of Toronto. He's also a living, breathing cyborg - defined by the Oxford Canadian Dictionary as "a person whose physical abilities are extended by machine technology."   
By Raymond D. Cohen and Jaclyn Law
November 2006

Software is not called soft-ware for nothing. Computer operating systems and programs are actually malleable; with the right tools and skills, software can be shaped to better fit the hands and needs of individuals.   
By Alan Cantor
November 2006

Technology may be made up of computer chips, optic fibres and motion sensors, but it has a softer side, too- it can even help with matters of the heart. "Everyone wants someone in their life," says Louise Maxwell, 60, of London, Ont. "Many people assume that people with disabilities lack the physical and emotional needs of non-disabled people, but that's not true."   
By Jeff Samsonow and Sally Poulsen
November 2006

Jeanne McLaws of London, Ont. who has fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis, uses speech recognition software and a headset microphone to turn her words into computer commands and text on the screen. Assistive technology is a general term used to describe products and equipment that help people with disabilities work, play and communicate more effectively. Dragon Naturally Speaking, the program that McLaws uses, is just one of the many software and hardware tools created to give access to mainstream computer technology and the ability to perform the same computer activities that individuals without disabilities can.   
By Avril Rinn
November 2006

Joining the mythical battle between humans and orcs is not a call Trevis Brown could have answered months ago. In fact, without some of the latest innovations in computer technology, the 27-year-old from Edmonton, Alta., who has quadriplegia, would not be playing the online computer game World of Warcraft at all. He plays with a sip 'n' puff mouse-he uses his mouth to get "left" and "right" clicks, while a device attached to his forehead operates the cursor- and enters commands through a voice recognition program. Thanks to the technology, Brown can move through the digital world and destroy enemies as easily as his online guild-mates.   
By Jeff Samsonow and Sally Poulsen
November 2006

A key focus of the CulturAll project is to explore the common challenges of individuals and groups who have been left out of the Canadian cultural exchange, and to find promising solutions and best practices. Perhaps you've been to a concert or watched a video online. Did you hear it all? See it all? Understand it all? Can we really have it all? What is that "all" exactly? When the lyrics, whispers and visual moments are not as open to us as we'd like them to be, what do we do? We want more than just a partial experience we want the full impact of art, drama, music and culture.   
By Vera Roberts and Charles Silverman
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