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- Description and evaluation of a portuguese AAC SystemPublication . Garcia, Luís; Oliveira, LuísThis paper describes the development and evaluation of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) System for the European Portuguese. The system works on top of the Windows operating system and it can interact with any application that requires keyboard input. The system is targeted to motor impaired users and offers two rate enhancement techniques: word prediction and abbreviation expansion. People with difficulties using a computer keyboard can use our system’s on-screen keyboard with different access methods. Aiming at reinforcing the user’s interaction, our system also includes an interface agent and a speech synthesizer. Each component of the system can be configured to the specific requirements of each user. Tests were carried out qualitatively, evaluating the performance with real users, and quantitatively, by using a simulator included in our system. These tests showed that our system can save up to 50% of user typing effort.
- O contributo do Mercvrio Portvguez para o final das Guerras da Restauração e da construção da História de PortugalPublication . Dias, Eurico José Gomes
- Poverty among young and elderly people: a portuguese approachPublication . Santos, José; Mendes, Maria Filomena; Pinto, José EliseuIn the past few years, poverty became an issue of increasing concern, in Portugal, turning into the focus of a growing number of studies that keep drawing our attention. Starting from the depiction of the several poverty concepts, and after underlining its subjectivity, we intend to analyse the event of poverty in its precise occurrence on specific population fractions (young and elderly people), typifying it from the standpoint of its regional distribution. For that matter we will assume the perception of relative poverty, taking into consideration the fact that it is the most commonly used concept within Europe, using the index of monetary poverty. Therefore, we will regard as poor the individuals who are below the monetary poverty line, usually adopted by EUROSTAT: those whose net income lies below 60% of the national median equivalised income. For that purpose we will be using the data from the latest Portuguese Household Budget Survey (IOF/2000). Beyond the previously mentioned depiction, we will seek to analyse the association between poverty and household dimension.
- Morfologia construtiva do Recinto Pré-histórico de Castanheiro do Vento (Horta do Douro, Vila Nova de Foz Côa): o exemplo das convencionalmente designadas "estruturas de condenação"Publication . Jorge, Vítor Oliveira; Muralha, João; Pereira, Leonor Sousa; Vale, Ana Margarida; Coixão, António Sá