FI:P072 Humanitarian Computer Applicat

P072 Humanitarian Computer Applications

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1997

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Ethically motivated applications are the main goal of this working seminary. The central theme is supporting of visually impaired people. Some possible topics are:
Information systems for visually impaired people.
Orientation of blind people.
Obstacle detection.
Internet, WWW.
Computer games for blind people.
Applications of isolated word recognition.
Applications of speech synthesis.
Support of informatics studium for visually impaired.
Applications of ASR.
Work on a phonetical corpus.
And other topics - ideas are welcomed.

Language of instruction

Czech

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/stud.htm

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.