Technological Implementation

Technological implementation plan

The Technological Implementation Plan summarises the results that have and will be achieved in the project. A midterm draft plan for FASTY is available.

By the middle of the second year of the three-year plan, the following was achieved:

• The prototype of a User Ability Assessment Tool (UAAT) has been developed for testing purposes.
• The prospective users have been contacted and the user panel has been founded.
• A first rapid prototype has been developed, in order to give the potential users a view of the ideas.
• A FASTY web-site has been created (available in English, German, French, Dutch and Swedish)
• A FASTY folder has been created (available in English, German, French, Dutch and Swedish).
• The first edited annual report was published and is additionally available online.
• A prototype of a pressure sensitive keyboard (FASTY Box) and pressure sensitive single sensors are available for testing and gaining first data.
• The internal structure of the FASTY system was developed together with the interfaces between the modules and their basic functionality.
• The first version of a user simulation tool is available.
• A Text Collection Tool has been developed which helped to collect and anonymize user text.
• A huge amount of user text (from disabled users) and general text has been collected for linguistic analysis.
• A detailed definition of the Language Component was developed.
• A prototype of the language components has been developed and language resources for all supported languages have been created.
• A SAPI Interface for speech output has been developed.