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eMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaHealth and InclusionUtilisationPartially blind people, elderly people, children.ComponentsOptical light, TextRequirementsAn optical pointing device including a light source, and a display screen adapted to directly displaythe letters.V. Reading-Aloud Apparatus and Program Therefore [85].To provide a reading-aloud apparatus capable of deciding, without depending on user's memory, as to whetherthe user has ever listened to the web-contents, when the user is listening to the voice of a voice browser readingaloud the web-contents, and to provide a program therefore.DescriptionThe reading-aloud apparatus which converts a part to be read out in the contents into voice to readit aloud comprises a storage device control means that makes a storage device store the readinformation, showing that when the reading-out object part has been read aloud, the read partwhich is the read-out object part read-aloud in the above has been read aloud; and a reading-aloudmeans that reads aloud the above read part, when reading it aloud, by a method of presenting it insounds different from those when an unread part is read aloud.UtilisationBlind people, elderly people.ComponentsAudioRequirementsPC, mobile deviceBrief description of European and national projects and their contributions in the topic is presented in Annex A.C. Home automation and intelligent environment.Home automation and the intelligent environment have been important issues throughout the last two decades.Many solutions have been reported and implemented. Home automation and intelligent environment technologiesinclude enhanced video assistance, using broadband [86] communications and video telephony, interconnectionand communication of home appliances as well as mobile handheld devices.I. Mobile applications for home automation and intelligent environmentDescriptionMobile applications for:ooovideoconferencelocation trackingcontrol of home appliancesUtilisationMobile phones which are being integrated within a home automation and intelligent environmentallow videoconference and location tracking and can control home appliances (heating systems,lighting systems, washing machines, refrigerators), multimedia players. The positioning feature canuse GPS or AGPS, which is a faster version of GPS, assisted by a network server and which requiresmuch less battery power to run on a mobile phone. The control feature allows the homeowner tomonitor and control his house appliances via his mobile phone set by sending commands in theform of SMS messages and receiving the appliances status as well. A GSM modem in house providesthe communication media between the homeowner and the mobile phone by means of SMSmessages.ComponentsVideo complying with H.323, GPS. Problem with device screen resolutions.CharacteristicsNeed for GPRS, 3G.RequirementsWhere 3G/GPRS infrastructure exists.23