Search results for "ACCESSIBILITY"
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A cultural heritage experience for visually impaired people
2020
Abstract In recent years, we have assisted to an impressive advance of computer vision algorithms, based on image processing and artificial intelligence. Among the many applications of computer vision, in this paper we investigate on the potential impact for enhancing the cultural and physical accessibility of cultural heritage sites. By using a common smartphone as a mediation instrument with the environment, we demonstrate how convolutional networks can be trained for recognizing monuments in the surroundings of the users, thus enabling the possibility of accessing contents associated to the monument itself, or new forms of fruition for visually impaired people. Moreover, computer vision …
Interpretación social y accesibilidad. Una propuesta de conexión disciplinar
2020
El objetivo de este estudio es ofrecer argumentos para entender la actividad propia de la interpretación social como parte del dominio genérico de la accesibilidad. Al hacerlo no ampliamos en realidad el concepto de accesibilidad, sino que reforzamos aquello que justifica el uso de este término, para diferenciar una parcela de actividad dentro de la práctica general de la traducción y la interpretación. Con el tema de la accesibilidad sucede que se ha manejado una etiqueta sin una delimitación conceptual previa de lo que se pretende designar por medio de ella. En este estudio nos ocupamos brevemente de esta tarea de aproximación conceptual, con el objetivo de incluir bajo el abanico de las …
INCLUSIVE HOUSEBOAT PROJECT
2022
The Nautical Centre LNI “BEYOND BARRIERS”, in the Cala of Palermo, has ordered the first inclusive Houseboat: a semi-custom product made in one piece by local workers. Over the past two decades, more attention has been paid to the issue of architectural barriers. Inclusive design must take into account many aspects of the product or service being designed, with a view to the future: the aging and longevity of the population, the dignity of people, the usability of products, their aesthetics of and the role of technology.
Functional implications of bound phenolic compounds and phenolics–food interaction: A review
2022
Sizeable scientific evidence indicates the health benefits related to phenolic compounds and dietary fiber. Various phenolic compounds-rich foods or ingredients are also rich in dietary fiber, and these two health components may interrelate via noncovalent (reversible) and covalent (mostly irreversible) interactions. Notwithstanding, these interactions are responsible for the carrier effect ascribed to fiber toward the digestive systemand canmodulate the bioaccessibility of phenolics, thus shaping health-promoting effects in vivo. On this basis, the present review focuses on the nature, occurrence, and implications of the interactions between phenolics and food components. Covalent and nonc…
La rappresentazione digitale per l’accessibilità al patrimonio culturale
2021
Da diversi anni, la rappresentazione digitale ha assunto un ruolo fondamentale nel campo della valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale, introducendo nuove modalità operative. Allo stesso tempo e con frequenza sempre maggiore siti monumentali, musei e istituzioni culturali si avvalgono di applicazioni e installazioni che, grazie all’impiego di tecnologie di uso comune, adoperano il linguaggio multimediale per consentire l’accessibilità virtuale ai Beni Culturali. Questo contributo racconta brevemente alcuni esempi di approcci e applicazioni pensati per assicurare accessibilità tattile, sonora o virtuale a un’utenza ampia e variegata. Sono qui analizzati approcci differenti che favoriscono il…
Subtitling into ELF. When accessibility becomes a counter information tool
2020
This study investigates the modalities by means of which the visual arts have recently been transformed by migration, and how aesthetic transformations within the context of (sub)titling have contributed to re-shaping identities and minority groups in filmic genres. The growing interest in migratory aesthetics has brought into representation marginalised subjectivities (i.e. the lives of Italians forced to emigrate from Libya after the Gadhafi coup d’état as the case in point in this work) in ways that depart from migrant depictions in the conventional media (e.g. the news bulletins). Against the backdrop of translation as a form of re-narration and an instrument of accessibility, and drawi…
Accessibilità e contronarrazione al Sole Luna Doc Festival. Sottotitolare le storie dei documentari
2021
This work is placed in the context of studies on the accessibility of audiovisual products in the realm of independent cinema, with its ability to provide access to social, cultural, historical and political truths, and also in the context of studies on audiovisual translation as an instrument providing access to audiences with specific and general disabilities, and to audiences with normal hearing. Against the backdrop of documentary festivals and, in particular, within the framework of the Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, scrutiny is placed on interlingual subtitling (also for the deaf and hard of hearing) as the most frequently used and disseminated practice. The three dominant languages are…
Making interaction with virtual reality accessible : rendering and guiding methods for subtitles
2021
AbstractAccessibility in immersive media is a relevant research topic, still in its infancy. This article explores the appropriateness of two rendering modes (fixed-positioned and always-visible) and two guiding methods (arrows and auto-positioning) for subtitles in 360° video. All considered conditions have been implemented and integrated in an end-to-end platform (from production to consumption) for their validation and evaluation. A pilot study with end users has been conducted with the goals of determining the preferred options by users, the options that result in a higher presence, and of gathering extra valuable feedback from the end users. The obtained results reflect that, for the c…
The Area Of The Strait Reading Theories And Strategies For A Metropolitan Dimension
2016
Abstract Extending across a peninsular strip going from Gioia Tauro to Melito Porto Salvo on the Calabrian side, and from Milazzo to Giardini Naxos on the Sicilian side, the Strait of Sicily sees theAspromonte massif and the Peloritani mountain range as two facing stage sets of land sketching in the gulf a water piazza of a landscaping room. Described in the proposal by Giuseppe and Alberto Samona, Ludovico Quaroni, Antonio Quistelli, Sergio Musmeci, Paolo D’Orsi Villani and Leonardo Urbani, it outlines, in the county seats of Reggio Calabria and Messina, the prevalence of a Euclidean space, identifiable in the exact metrics given by the recurrence of the measuring step of the blocks drawn …
A preliminary study on the ecotoxic potency of wastewater treatment plant sludge combining passive sampling and bioassays.
2021
Highlights • The passive samplers collected bioavail able and bioaccessible chemicals from the WWTP sludge samples. • The sampler extracts were acutely and chronically toxic to water flea. • The sampler extracts were cytotoxic and genotoxic. • The sludge treatment such as composting and digesting diminished the toxicity. • Effect-based methods should be part of the risk assessment of sludge recycling. Sewage sludge is an inevitable byproduct produced in wastewater treatment. Reusing nutrient-rich sludge will diminish the amount of waste ending in soil dumping areas and will promote circular economy. However, during sewage treatment process, several potentially harmful organic chemicals are …