Uk Partners
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The Centre for Deaf Studies
The Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol opened in 1978 and was Europe's first academic institution to concentrate solely on research and education that aims to benefit the Deaf community. The majority of teaching staff on the programme are Deaf and all tutors sign. Students at the Centre for Deaf Studies in Bristol will study within a bilingual environment, with an emphasis on acquiring fluency in British Sign Language (BSL).
The first research work began at CDS in 1978 with a study of how people learn and use BSL and was then broadened by further work in the Deaf community. Since then CDS have expanded their work in five main areas:
- The study of sign language and sign linguistics
- The study of sign language acquisition
- Deaf community, Deaf culture and Deafhood
- Cognition, mental health, education
- Video telecommunications, video information and e-learning
CDS Role in REACH112
User identification, training, installations, support to users and evaluation procedures and reporting protocols
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AuPix
AuPix is a telecommunications company based in Bristol. Since 1993 the team at AuPix has been working on the video telephony endpoints for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.
From early 2006 AuPix has also been supplying the infrastructure to enable video telephony calls over the internet.
The products are desktop videophones, PC based softclients, Video PBXs and a Video Call Centre Currently the company's products are being used by two Video Relay Services in the USA They generate 100's of thousands of VRS minutes every month.
Aupix Role:
- Creation & management of network infrastructure
- Provision of TC client
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RNID
Largest charity working to change the world for the UK's 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people (Membership charity, 37,000+ members)
We aim to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people by:
- Campaigning and lobbying vigorously
- Raising awareness of deafness and hearing loss
- Providing services
- Research and Development
- Partnerships
RNID Role:
- Provide access to existing TextRelay
- Use of standard T140 text in TalkByText, a text only system with editions for Windows on the Internet and Mobile phones via the Internet
- Links for MyFriend TC application to existing user base of TalkByText and textphone users
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Avon Fire and Rescue Service
Avon Fire & Rescue Service (AF&RS) provides emergency and protection services to the communities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, ensuring a safer place to live and work for a population of more than one million people.
- fire stations and eight Community Safety Centres.
- Attended 13,181 incidents in 2010.
- Staffed by more than 1,000 people, including approximately 902 operational firefighters and Fire Control Operators and 167 support staff.
- Promotes community safety through events and education work and attends a wide range of incidents and emergencies from road traffic collisions and fires, to flooding and chemical spills.
AF&RS role in Reach 112
- Train contact centre staff and relay services.
- Enable Total Conversation within the emergency control centre for the pilot period.
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Covers a population of almost 1.5 million people
The Communications Department deals with:
- All non-emergency calls
- All emergency calls through 999 and
- Subsequent dispatch and control of operational resources to manage incidents.
April 2007 to March 2008:
- 347,108 emergency calls,
- 843,640 non emergency calls and
- Carried out 112,838 Crime Recording operations
Communication centres are based at Portishead and Taunton.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary Role
- enable TC in the communications centre during the pilot
- evaluate the interactions with disabled users
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