Innovation Innosuisse IICT
The aim of the “Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies” (IICT) innovation project is to develop information and communication technologies (ICT) that provide accessibility services to people with disabilities. The goal is to create a computer-assisted mode of working for processes that to date have been performed exclusively by humans, and to fully automate processes that until now are only partly-automated.
In brief Innosuisse IICT
The flagship is to lead to innovations by means of a user-centred approach, which support not only people with hearing, visual and cognitive impairments, but also hearing learners of sign language, and thereby emphasise the aspect of accessibility as a bidirectional concept. The flagship’s approach is a participatory one. People with disabilities are involved in all stages of the research and development cycle.
Description Five uses in the context of accessibility
This innovation project is directed at five uses in the context of accessibility:Textvereinfachung
text simplification
sign language translation
sign language review
audio description
spoken subtitles
Within the flagship, each application constitutes its own subproject, while tight connections between the subprojects exist through shared technologies. The flagship creates both economic and social value and brings together within its consortium the most important stakeholders from the field of inclusive ICT in Switzerland.
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The “Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies” (IICT) project is a four-year project that is supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) under its Flagship Initiative scheme.
