HCI_Specification_Of_A_Resource_Centre

HCI Specification Of A Resource Centre PROPOSAL AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN HCI SPECIFICATIONS FOR KNOWSLEY COMPUTING RESOURCE CENTRE TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 3 Environmental Considerations 3 User Types 4 Floor Plan 5 Design and Implementation Plan KNOWSLEY COMPUTING RESOURCE CENTRE INTRODUCTION As society becomes increasingly reliant on a knowledge-based economy, people with disabilities will have an excellent opportunity to participate fully in the social and economic life of their communities. Whether this comes to pass depends on what happens to people with disabilities in learning and using the new computer and information technologies. These technologies have the potential to help or hinder people with disabilities, making concerns about the accessibility of these technologies an important issue. ¡§Designing for accessibility from the outset always results in better, less expensive, and timelier solutions than retrofits¡¨ (Jacobs, 1999; Node Networking,). It is important to ensure that the needs and concerns of students with all types of disabilities are represented in planning decisions from their initiation. Therefore, when designing the computer resource centre it was necessary to investigate current practices and realities in the use of computer and information technologies to highlight specific access needs of students with different disabilities. AIM The aim of the project is to design a computer resource centre, which should include the hardware and software necessary to encourage users, system, computer, needs, people, user, technologies, disabilities, centre, resource, range, experience, tasks, students, requirements, regularly, particular, package, impaired, environment, wide, space, should, require, number, necessary, must, magazine, limited, interface, expert, adaptive, accessibility, ability, telephone