The second face-to-face meeting of the SUITCEYES project consortium was held on 10-11th of July 2018 in Leeds, hosted by the University of Leeds, School of Civil Engineering. We used that opportunity to review our work so far and plan the next few months. The first day of meeting was focused on seminar part, in which we welcomed, among others, Leeds Disabled People’s Organisation. The members…
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A short report by Nasrine Olson The conference took place in the beautiful Corfu, Greece, on June 26-29, and comprised of multiple sessions, three industrial workshops and seven regular workshops. Two project members, Oliver Korn and I attended the conference and I presented the first SUITCEYES publication, which was a peer-reviewed, full paper, titled, Empowering Persons with Deafblindness: Designing an Intelligent Assistive Wearable in the SUITCEYES Project, on Friday June…
Leave a CommentBrussels Hotel NH Carrefour de l’ Europe Standardisation and standardization committees are an often forgotten channel for dissemination. Standardisation is an important contribution to the development of technology (as well as to other societal areas) in general and is a highly international way of working. There are several standardisation organisations. ISO is perhaps the most well-known. For the electronic and electrical field there is IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission. IEC in…
Leave a CommentThe German journal ‘Karger Kompass Ophthalmologie’ vol. 2/18 shortly presents the EU-project SUITCEYES! If you are interested in the details, please check out this link.
Leave a CommentThe radio show “Spanarna” is a trendspotting show where a few select citizens look at possible trends in society. In relation to language and understanding over long lengths of time the SUITCEYES project was mentioned as an example of upcoming technologies to facilitate communication in a more inclusive manner. The trendspotter Per Naroskin started his train of thought in reflections based on interaction with a person with deafblindness. The episode…
Leave a CommentClarion Post Hotell, Göteborg 7-8 May 2018 The Town of Gothenburg and the regional authority for the western part of Sweden (Gothenburg, Borås etc), Västra Götlands regionen, VGR, arranged and supported what is called the “Communication Carneval” . In spite of its rather generic name it is devoted to communication for the disabled. The carnival’s basic idea is to be a forum and a meeting place for anyone interested in…
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On 17th March 2018 we presented the innovative concepts of SUITCEYES at the 10th Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TYGIEL 2018 held in Lublin, Poland. Tomasz Rozwalka (Harpo) gave an invited speech entitled “Smart textiles for persons with deafblindness – exploitation of R&D results” during the opening session of this annual event for students, PhD students and young researchers from across Poland.
Leave a CommentThe project SUITCEYES is now also published on the Swedish website Voister – a smarter IT news site, which was nominated for the publishing price 2017. Here is the link to the full article!
Leave a CommentThe science journalist Tomas Lindblad attended the symposium at the very start of the SUITCEYES project. This resulted in an in depth commentary on february 21 where people with deaf blindness as well as caregivers, researchers and external advisors were interviewed in a 19 minutes on Vetenskapsradion radio special. Link to the radio programme
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