Abstract
A little if not rare work has been considered empowering the PWD with smart universal assistive technologies at the workplace. Most researches focus on specific or single impairment condition such as smart solutions for blind or low vision persons, physically disabled persons (PDP), deaf or mute persons, and mostly with home or building places. This paper present the models of interaction and control of a universal interface solution for PWD, called SMARTUNIVERS. The SMARTUNIVERS is currently being developed within the of SMARTDISABLE's research project activities implemented at the Riyadh Techno Valley, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA. IT includes two smart interface modules: Smart Help (SMARTHELP) and Smart editor (SMARTED-IT). The SMARTHELP module provides personalized smart help and communication services for the PWD at workplace. The SMARTEDIT module is a multimodal editor interface that provides the capability for wide spectra of PWD groups (11 groups with various combination of disabilities) to edit documents using multi-model ways of interactions and commanding through use of speech recognition engine, text-to-speech, Mic, virtual mouse/ keyboard and Braille keyboard. We shall present in this paper the high level design of the SMARTUNIVERS and the two smart component modules, together with the interaction models and scenarios for some typically covered PWD groups. The SMARTUNIVERS provides a flexible dynamic interface that adjusts itself according to the impairment conditions associated with the eleven supported groups of PWD.