The significance of cognitive infocommunications in developing assistive technologies for people with non-standard cognitive characteristics: CogInfoCom for people with non-standard cognitive characteristics

Abstract

After an introduction to the global problems of cognitive impairments and related disabilities and defining the key terms, the paper emphasises the significance and possibilities of cognitive infocommunications in developing assistive technologies for people with non-standard cognitive characteristics. The paper provides a short overall review of known approaches, and also gives concise summaries on selected recent Hungarian research and development projects the results of which are not yet widely known.