IMC
more than a cane
14th July - 17th July 2009
Content
Conference programme
On this page you will find the temporary program schema of IMC 13.
Conference languages are English and German. Lectures at the IMC will be translated simultaneously.
Tuesday, July 14th 2009
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| July 14th 2009 14:00 - 16:00 |
Opening | Conference centre |
| July 14th 2009 16:00 - 18:00 |
Stand-up-reception | Conference centre |
Wednesday, July 15th 2009
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| July 15th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session I - Guide Dogs | Forum 1 |
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Trans-National Collaboration to start a new Guide Dog Service
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An Orientation & Mobility Teaching Approach for Guide Dog Travel for the elderly population or reduced mobility users
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Orientation of Guide Dog Users to new Environments – a guide for the O&M Instructor
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| July 15th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session I - Barrier free | Forum 2 |
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Detectability and Impact of low-profile dot shape tactile walking surface indicators (TWSIs) used for flat floor surface
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Detectability and direction discriminability of low-profile bar shape tactile walking surface indicators (TWSIs) used for flat floor surface
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Combination of the Indoor and Outdoor Navigation System TANIA with RFID Technology for Initialization and Object Recognition
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| July 15th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session I - Research | Forum 3 |
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Using RFID Technology for Barrier-free Access to Public Transportation for Blind and Low Vision Persons
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Shared Space - fortune favors the brave
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Crossing roads without barriers: The development of the "separate traversing place" with differentiated height of the curb
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| July 15th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session I - Special Session | Forum 4 |
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A Multidisciplinary Course to Build Capacity on Visual Impairment in the Arab Region
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Career Reflections: The Influence of 20 Years of IMCs in my Teaching Practice
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Motivating Visually Impaired and Deaf-blind Persons to Perform Regular Physical Exercises
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| July 15th 2009 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break | - |
| July 15th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session II - Barrier free | Forum 1 |
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Improvement of Social Acceptance of Barrier Free Access Facilities for the Visually Impaired through Public Education
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Audible beaconing to provide wayfinding Information for street crossings
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Designing an Accessible External Environment
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| July 15th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session II - Research | Forum 2 |
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Research Synthesis on Driver Yielding Behavior in the Context of Crossings by Pedestrians who are Blind at Complex Intersections
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Instructional Software for Trainers to Teach Sighted Guides of Visually-Impaired Travelers
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Structured Discovery Cane Travel: A Methodology used by blind mobility instructors
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| July 15th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session II - Teaching Methods & Materials | Forum 3 |
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Digital Cameras as Low Vision Aids
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A Map is not enough
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Accessible Mobility - Information, Analyses and Recommendations for the Design of Intersections to suit blind Persons
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| July 15th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session II - Special Session | Forum 4 |
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Mobility/Orientation education for blind and partially sighted young people should be a right not a privilege
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Nature at your fingertips: an accessible and innovative tour
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"Touching art" accessibility project: when contemporary art brings us together
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| July 15th 2009 12:00 - 18:30 |
Exhibition | Conference centre |
| July 15th 2009 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch break | - |
| July 15th 2009 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session III - Research | Forum 1 |
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The effects of low vision on the ability of identify crossable gaps in traffic
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Visibility of Pedestrian Signals by Pedestrians with Varying Levels of Vision
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Lessons Learned: Eight years of research regarding pedestrian access to roundabout intersections
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| July 15th 2009 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session III - Research | Forum 2 |
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Orientation and mobility in winter conditions: issues and strategies
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Learning processes at the edge of a new life - theory and applications for teaching and learning O&M acitivites
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Multi-Functional Tactile Map for the Visually Impaired in Hong Kong
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| July 15th 2009 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session III - Psychology | Forum 3 |
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Finding a Job - You need more than a cane! ADL and O&M as a part of Social Competence are Skills that are necessary to succeed in finding a job
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If you want to reduce stereotypic movements improve the variability of spontaneous motor activity
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"Senior Citizen Counselor" - Concept development of an institutionalized counseling program for elderly visually impaired persons in the Rhein-Main-Area
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| July 15th 2009 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session III - Special Session | Forum 4 |
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The Effectivness of Master Trainer Classes for teaching Electronical Navigational Devices
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Orientation and navigation without a GPS
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Orientation & Mobility Training for People with Low Vision in Hong Kong
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| July 15th 2009 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break | - |
| July 15th 2009 16:00 - 17:00 |
Session IV - Childfren and O&M | Forum 1 |
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Vision and the Development of Upright Balance and Posture
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Mobility Day - An orientation and mobility program for children with vision impairment in the city environment
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| July 15th 2009 16:00 - 17:00 |
Session IV - Special Session | Forum 2 |
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User evaluation of Electronic Mobility Aids
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Engaging students in the O&M process: Why and how
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| July 15th 2009 16:00 - 17:00 |
Session IV - Special Session | Forum 3 |
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A contemporary situation in the issue of spatial orientation of persons with visual impairment in the Czech Republic
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29 years of professional Association, Review - Preview
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| July 15th 2009 16:00 - 17:00 |
Session IV - DLS meets O&M | Forum 4 |
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The Challenge of Teaching Daily Living Skills
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Sighted Guide Techniques
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Thursday, July 16th 2009
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| July 16th 2009 09:00 - 18:30 |
Exhibition | Conference centre |
| July 16th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session V - Navigation and Barrier Free | Forum 1 |
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User perception of the effectiveness Trekker©GPS as a travel aid
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Barrier Free Facilities for the Visually Impaired in Hong Kong
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Towards a "Universal Design" Approach to Accomodating the Needs of Pedestrians at Modern Roundabouts: Treatments Evaluated Under NCHRP Project 3-78a
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| July 16th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session V - Research | Forum 2 |
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Auditory motion perception: Constraints on Pedestrian Performance
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Impact of quieter vehicles on performance of O&M tasks
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Nonvisual cues for aligning to cross streets
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| July 16th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session V - GUIDE DOGS | Forum 3 |
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Does a guide dog make a person more independent?
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Guide Dogs for Teenagers: a Conclusive Experience
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The end of a partnership with a guide dog: emotional response and relationships with subsequent dogs
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| July 16th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session V - Special Session | Forum 4 |
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Cycling training; the Dutch way
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FUNctional Pre-Vocational and Community Skills for High School Students in a Life Skills Program
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To understand a blind person's world - methodological aspects and implications for O&M
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| July 16th 2009 10:30 - 11:00 |
coffee break | - |
| July 16th 2009 11:00 - 13:00 |
Session VI - Research | Forum 1 |
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Retinal Implants will restore vision in blind RP patients
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Retinal Implant Research: Subretinal stimulation in Patients
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The potential and challenges of prosthetic vision for improving mobility
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| July 16th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session VI - Teaching: Methods & Materials | Forum 2 |
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O&M Training for people with vision and hearing impairment in Hong Kong
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O&M Training for visually and hearing impaired adults following bilateral cochlear implantation
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A Practioner´s Guide to Septo-Optic Dysplasia
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| July 16th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session VI - Children and O&M | Forum 3 |
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Early Intervention in Taitung
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Learning to displacement with cane in Early Childhood Education, from an inclusive perspective
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Thinker´s Key for O&M - Unlocking barriers for vision impaired kids
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| July 16th 2009 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session VI - O&M in different Countries | Forum 4 |
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O&M in Russia: Opening New Doors
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O&M in China
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Rehabilitation in a danish context – the way to achieve independence and an equal and meaningful life for people with visual impairment
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| July 16th 2009 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch break | - |
| July 16th 2009 15:30 - 17:30 |
Guided Tours in Marburg | - |
| July 16th 2009 18:00 - 23:00 |
Closing evening | Campus of the blista |
Friday, July 17th 2009
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| July 17th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session VII - Research | Forum 1 |
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Neurosurgical treatment options to preserve visual function
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Multisensory processes and compensatory plasticity in blind humans
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Explorative Saccadic Training improves Orientation in Patients with Hemianopia
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| July 17th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session VII - Teaching: Research | Forum 2 |
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Digital cameras - an aid for obtaining information for people with low vision
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Signs with Large Print and Braille Message to be Placed at Convenient Location of Pedestrian Crossings to Provide Street Names, Landmarks and Orientation to the Visually Impaired
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Criteria for the production of relief and colour floor maps accessible by visually impaired people
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| July 17th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session VII - Rehabilitation for Seniors | Forum 3 |
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ARMD - Exceptional Challenge for Rehabilitation and Counseling Programs?
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In what way can the low vision clinics help elderly people with low vison to independent and safe orientation and mobility? A description of clinical work
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Development and evaluation design of a standardized protocol for orientation and mobility training in visually impaired older people
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| July 17th 2009 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session VII - Barrier free | Forum 4 |
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Remote Infrared Audible Signage Model Accessibility Program (RAIS MAP)
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Step-Hear Technology: A new Information and navigation system assisting visually impaired pedestrians in independent mobility
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e-Adept - travelling beyond barriers
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| July 17th 2009 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break | - |
| July 17th 2009 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session VIII - Children and O&M | Forum 1 |
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"More than a cane": A case study of early long cane use in a child from the age of 14 months to 4½ years
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Children´s Mobility Service Melbourne
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| July 17th 2009 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session VIII - Teaching: Methods and Materials | Forum 2 |
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Cane is not a Four-Letter Word
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Accessibility of interactive touch screens for visually impaired people
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| July 17th 2009 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session VIII - Guide Dogs | Forum 3 |
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Quality and performance test of guide dogs at the end of training with blind examiners
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An Orientation & Mobility Teaching Approach for Guide Dog Travel for Users with Low Vision
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| July 17th 2009 11:00 - 12:00 |
Session VIII - Teaching: Methods and Materials | Forum 4 |
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Familiarization Lesson for the K Sonar Device™: What the Orientation & Mobility (O&M) Instructor must know
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Teaching Secondary Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) to persons who are blind
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| July 17th 2009 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch break | - |
| July 17th 2009 14:00 - 15:30 |
Closing Session | Forum 1 |
Registration for IMC 13
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