Title Page -- Contents -- Invited Speeches -- Rehabilitation Technology: Exploitation of R & D and Current Technologies -- THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR DISABLED AND ELDERLY CUSTOMERS -- Session 1: Results from R & D Programmes -- Session 1.1: Interfaces in Compensation for Visual Perception -- Fast Icon and Character Recognition for Universal Access to WIMP Interfaces for the Blind and Partially Sighted -- Large Scale Text Distribution Services for the Print Disabled: The Harmonisation and Standardisation Efforts of the TIDE-CAPS Consortium -- Multimedia-Interfaces for Blind Computer Users -- Technical Possibilities for the Improvement of Orientation and Mobility for Disabled Persons -- Session 1.2: Enabling Communications -- SYMBOL Multilingual and multicode lexical learning system on CD-I environment -- The Development of a Computer Animation Program for the Teaching of Lipreading -- Effectiveness of Multi-Talk II as a Voice Output Communication Aid -- Comspec - Towards a Modular Software Architecture and Protocol for AAC Devices -- Session 1.3: Motor Enhancements -- Restoration of Gait in Paraplegics by Functional Electrical Stimulation and Orthoses (Hybrid Systems) -- Mobile Communications and Environment Control for Wheelchair Users -- The Information Prosthetic for Severely Physically Handicapped Children -- A SAFE AND EASY TO USE INTEGRATED CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, M3S -- Session 1.4: Daily Support -- Innovative Concept for Teaching Elderly CAD - The TECAD Project -- Videotelephony: Support for Elderly People -- Session 1.5: Robotics -- Open Control Architecture for an Intelligent Omni-Directional Wheelchair -- THE MARCUS INTELLIGENT HAND PROSTHESIS -- A Soft Assistant Arm for Tetraplegics -- RAID Robotic end-effector developments -- Session 1.6: Signal Processing -- Speech Processing for the Profoundly Hearing Impaired