The Demand to develop new products that promote accessibility and social inclusion to those who possess physical and intellectual disabilities has grown significantly in the past years and promises to grow even more. Thus ...

This work consists of the development and manufacture of an accessible walker to assist the mobility of people who have temporary or permanent limited physical conditions in their lower limbs, such as the elderly and people ...

Facing the growing demand for inclusion, especially in public spaces, it was noted the increase in requirements for them to be accessible. With the revision of NBR 9050 in 2015, new criteria was incorporated to promote ...

This paper addresses the prototype development of an event acquisition and signaling system focusing on the needs of the hearing impaired on a household level. The hearing impaired add up to about 5.3% of the world's ...

With technological advances, globalization, the need for social inclusion highlighted the importance of developing new assistive technologies aimed to identify and create an arsenal of resources and actions that provides ...

Like literature, music, movies, among other cultural artefacts, digital games are present in several areas of human life, such as entertainment, education, politics, among others. As cultural artefacts, digital games are ...

Wireless sensors networks (WSN) enable the acquisition of valuable data directly from the production field that, in turns, open unprecedented opportunities for data analysis and decision making systems. Monitoring microclimate ...

The use of the carbohydrate glucose as an energetic source is essential for an adequate function of the human body. The complex regulation of this molecule involves the coordinated action of various organs such as pancreas, ...