MULTIsensory Interaction and Assistive Technology: Feasibility and Effectiveness (MULTI-AT)

The wide availability of human-computer interfaces
which stimulate our senses (vision, hearing and touch)
does not equally serve all categories of end users:
people with sensory and/or motor disabilities cannot
access information as the majority does, because
solutions for the wider public are implicitly designed for
persons with average sensory abilities. Assistive
technologies exploit alternative stimulation
methodologies complementing the residual sensory
channels. [1, 2] Successful implementations would give
people with disabilities the possibility of using
everybody’s human-computer interfaces [3] or the
possibility of developing new interfaces for therapeutic
and rehabilitation purposes.