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Lille Metropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM)
"Tag My LaM" is a new technology for museum visitors' use on their smartphones. Undertaken with IBM and Urbilog, the application enables visitors to stroll through the museum’s sculpture park and hear information in the language of their choice about the closest nearby sculpture on their smartphones. For visually impaired visitors, an audio version of the information is also available.
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City of Bolzano — Home healthcare smart sensors help keep Italian seniors living in place
The city is sponsoring the Secure Living project—created by the IBM Human Centric Solution Centers Europe, IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Hursley Emerging Technologies Lab, TIS Innovation Park, the technological park of Bolzano, and Dr. Hein GmbH—to help seniors safely 'age in place' at home.
City of Nettuno
Nettuno developed an interactive service providing real-time accessibility information via a free smartphone application that identifies which town buildings provide easy and safe access.
Cleveland Sight Center
Founded in 1906, the Cleveland Sight Center provides educational, rehabilitative and support services for thousands of people in the greater Cleveland area who are blind or visually impaired. IBM provided a strategic business assessment and technology roadmap that outlines the center's accessibility and adaptive technology needs by consumer group and focus area.
Mitsukoshi
IBM Easy Web Browsing helps enable novice Internet users, older consumers or people with visual impairments to easily navigate and view the Mitsukoshi Web site.
Oxfordshire County Council in the UK
IBM partnered with the Oxfordshire County Council to create cost-effective, accessible, engaging e-learning materials for it's 6,000 Council and partner agency staff.