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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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JANUARY 25, 200
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VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS FOR ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON MOVEMENT RECOGNIZER RESEARCH
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| ORLANDO,
Florida, January 25, 2000-The Naval
Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), in alliance
with the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Communication
Enhancement today launched a coordinated program to monitor and
explore technology developments with military applications that
can also impact the engineering aspects of the Augmentative and
Alternative Communication technologies field. |
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Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) aims
to provide proof of concept for selected virtual reality
applications directed toward developing a prototype computer
based Movement Recognizer. It is hoped such a prototype
could be trained by any person, including a person with
communicationdisorders, such that the computer program would
learn to recognize the individual's movement. Thus it could
communicate the particular meaning of that individual's
movement to a person or system which could respond appropriately;
e.g., satisfy a request.
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The partners working on this CRADA look forward to opportunities
to share research and interact. NAWCTSD will work with national
experts in the RERC on Communication Enhancement whose members
include institutions such as Duke University Medical Center
and Boston Children's Hospital. This collaboration is expected
to augment the quality of virtual reality research in an area
with varied military training application and to accelerate
the development of practical tools for persons with communication
disabilities.
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| CONTACT: Ms.
Dee A. Chandler, Public Affairs Officer, Ms. Pat Nimmo, Technology
Transfer Specialist at (407) 380-8372/8225. |
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