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Communication system for the blind - the fixed part
Botko, Ondřej ; Koton, Jaroslav (referee) ; Herman, Ivo (advisor)
The thesis deals with problems of navigation blind in buildings, where is not possibility navigation by GPS (Global Positioning System). This thesis contain resolution through the use of communication units, placed in floor of buildings. This comunication units, equipped with receiver and transmitter, can give direction for blind by send own identification to transceiver in speciál stick (the thesis does not contain solving of the stick), which can information blind of position. Two comunication unit solution are available, that differs by using component part. The main difference is in use control unit of circuit. First circuit use as control unit ATAR862-3 (microprocessor and transmitter in one case) and the second one use microprocessor ATmega 8L. Both component made by Atmel corporation. Circuit with ATmega 8L is more exacting on curent consumption, but solving this problem is available and communication unit has low pretensions and long life. The part of thesis is program, which solving communication protocol for no-problem communication between unit in floor and special stick.
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Communication system for the blind - the mobile part
Dadák, Jiří ; Rampl, Ivan (referee) ; Herman, Ivo (advisor)
Orientation in big administration buildings can be very difficult for visually impaired people. Although most of the buildings are equipped with elevators, the buttons of which are designated with Braille characters and acoustic signals, it might be very difficult for the visually impaired to actually find the particular office. Even if there were descriptions in Braille at each office door, it would prove very complicating for the visually impaired individual to localize the descriptions in the first place, especially in case of a large number of offices in the building. That may also concern other important places, such as toilets, inside a building. In this thesis, I am going to present a design proposal of a communication system which uses transceivers placed at significant points in a building and receivers placed at the end of the white cane for orientation inside a building.
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Design of Hand Blender
Kalenský, Ondřej ; Buganská, Tamara (referee) ; Sládek, Josef (advisor)
This bachelor‘s thesis deals with the design of ahand blender. The main problems it covers are designing with consideration to blind and old people, clear and natural control and more options for holding the device. The thesis discovers the essence of the process of blending and whisking. Based on this knowledge, the ambition behind the design of the product is to form anew shape which is in harmony with its function. The thesis is marginally focused on the theory of designing and developing anew product and it describes the practical usage of user-friendly design rules.
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Image Seen by Touch.
Kořenková, Silvie ; STECKER, Martin (advisor) ; Hucková, Barbara (referee)
My final diploma thesis represents the theme "Image Seen by Touch." with subtitle "Blind Art Focusing on Photography." I define art for blind people and its history focusing primary on the contemporary art and its perception. My interest is how to transform Art for blind people and its technical parameters. I focus on authors dealing with such artworks and their contribution to the Blind Art. My aim is to find out whether I can succeed as a photographer for the blind people. It is a kind of photography that cannot be seen but can be touched - i.e. visual medium.
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Application of visually impaired people in the labor market in the Czech Republic
Kanioková, Veronika ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Pikhart, Zdeněk (referee)
The bachelor thesis addresses the problem of visually disabled persons in the Czech republic's labour market. The goal of this thesis is to analyze current situation of visually disabled at the labour market and to recommend solutions, which will lead to higher employment of these people. The first part of this thesis is segmenting people with visual disability and their social benefits leading to obtaining a job. The second part concerns different ways of education that lead to higher employment and also different types of compensatory aid that help educating visually disabled. Last but not least the different labour political approaches for visually disabled will be discussed. A questionnaire that was used for the practical part reveals the opinions and attitudes of both visually disabled persons and employers towards the problem of unemployment. The final part concerns particular suggestions towards the improvement of current labour market for visually disabled.
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Life of blind children in the Czech republic
REITINGEROVÁ, Martina
The bachelor thesis deals with the life of visually impaired children in the Czech Republic. The objective of this work is to provide basic information about the visual impairment and the role of the family in the integration of visually impaired children into society, which is demonstrated by a case study. The bachelor thesis is divided into two parts. Theoretical part is focused on visual impairments, their division, it provides overview of institutions dealing with care, support and education of visually handicapped, it mentions mobility aids, and finally it deals with the possibility of the integration of visually impaired children, especially the influence of the family in the whole process. Practical part is based on interviews with visually impaired children and their families. The research questions are aimed mainly to determine status, opportunities and possible obstacles in the integration of visually impaired children into society. The bachelor thesis is intended for general public, but may be also beneficial to social educators as guidance on this issue.
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Level of Usage of Voice User Interface
Horáček, Jan ; Šalamon, Tomáš (advisor)
This study focuses on the voice user interface, that is the communication between a human and a machine using speech. The aim is to contribute to reader’s familiarity with basic theoretical approaches to the topic, to identify main software products and to assess their present level of usability. A recognition of crucial factors hindering mass utilization of such technologies by common users is included as well. The work consists of two parts. The goal of the first one is to introduce basic terms and principles of the functionality of the voice user interface and its three main parts: a system for speech synthesis, for speech recognition and a dialog manager. In the second part, characteristics of particular products based on the speech synthesis or recognition will be given, especially of those designed for general use on a PC. A chapter examining current situation and possible progress in the usage of the voice user interface by the visually impaired people follows. The last chapters study other possible utilities, where an adequate attention is paid especially to those bringing advantage to telephone users.
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Problems of creating e-learning courses for handicapped
Štěrba, Ladislav ; Benáčanová, Helena (advisor) ; Řezníček, Dušan (referee)
The thesis discusses the problems of e-learning for handicapped. It concerns creation of electronic courses for visually and hearing-impaired students. The main target is to create and publish a sample course for this groups of students. The course shows practical employment of methods and recommendations for creating study materials easily accessible for handicapped. Those methods and recommendations are described in the theoretical part of the thesis. The creation and publication of the sample course is completely carried out using freely available software applications and services. The operating procedure, advantages and limits of this approach are described as well as further possible development of the courses for handicapped. The thesis could then serve as one of the first theoretical and practical handbook for creating this type of courses. The first part sketches out the specifics of visually and hearing-impaired and various types of teaching these handicapped. In the second part of the thesis the rules and recommendations for a correct creation of an e-learning course for handicapped are explained. Principally the technical rules but also some pedagogical suggestions are focused. The last part of the thesis shows the method of creating an e-learning course for handicapped in the e-learning system Moodle using freely available audio-visual applications and publication services.
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Emergency Call Service 112 and its Possibilities in Receiving Emergency Calls from Handicapped Citizens
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Kamila
This bachelor thesis deals with the possibilities of calls made by handicapped people (deaf, blind or physically handicapped) to emergency lines, including line 112. According to the European Parliament Directive 2002/22/ES of 7 March 2002 on universal service and users' rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, specifies that each citizen, whether healthy or handicapped has the right to call to emergency line 112 free of charge. This thesis involves a questionnaire based research. Sets of questions focused on handicapped citizens asked whether they had sufficient possibilities to call to emergency lines. The questionnaires were distributed to handicapped citizens in South Bohemia. The aim was to find out whether the efforts of the Fire Rescue Service in the field of reception of emergency calls from handicapped people were sufficient or not and whether these citizens are or will be interested in using the line in the future. The research has shown that handicapped people may communicate with the emergency lines by means of mobile phones like healthy people, provided their handicap does not prevent them from doing that. Blind and sand-blind people do not have problems with telephoning either, mostly from mobile telephones. They might only have a problem with specification of the event location. Deaf and hearing impaired people actually have problems with mobile phone communication, but the Fire Rescue Service of the South Bohemia Region enables them to send SMS, thanks to which they can receive assistance of the same quality as any healthy person in emergency situation occurrence. As for legislation, a new draft Fire Rescue Service Act, which contains the issues of emergency calls from handicapped people, is being consulted at present.
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