Dissemination and PR Activities

During the second project year, the FASTY partners have continued to carry out several activities for the dissemination of the expected results of the project and the benefits of the future use of its results.

Project presentation on the web

There is a presentation of the FASTY project on this Web-Site. During the course of the project some minor changes have continuously been done and during the second project year a major upgrade has been undertaken.

Project Folder

A colourful Project Folder, with an overview of the objectives and features of the project, has been issued in English as well as in the FASTY languages and distributed at meetings, conferences and workshops. It is available for download at this FASTY web site in the download section. During the second project year it has been revised to better mirror the current state of the project.

Project presentations

During the second project year the FASTY partners have participated in several conferences and other events, as detailed below:

• Workshop with user trials at FTB, 11 April 2002
• Workshop at Modem , 24 April 2002
• Presentation of KeyboardBox to Creth, 6 June 2002
• ScienceWeek@Austria, 14-16 June 2002
• Presentation at the Special School of Saives, Belgium, 2 July 2002
• ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 15-20 July 2002
• ECAI, Lyon, France, 21-27 July 2002
• ISAAC, Odense, Denmark, 10-15 August 2002
• COLING, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-30 August 2002
• Presentation at service of help center for integration of disabled children, Mons, Belgium, 13 September 2002
• Presentation to occupational therapist, Namur, Belgium, 19 September 2002
• Workshop with the team of Creth concerning input devices, 26 September 2002
• Integra, Altenhof, Austria, 25-27 September 2002

And the following articles about FASTY have been accepted and presented at conferences:

• "Wordform- and class-based prediction of the components of German Nominal compounds in an AAC system", ICCHP 2002 and COLING 2002
• "Predicting the Components of German Nominal Compounds", ECAI 2002
• Overview of the FASTY project in the ELSNews issue 11.2 (2002)