CALL FOR PAPERS
*1st ACM international Workshop on:***
*Media Studies and implementations that help Improving Access to Disabled
Users*
*http://www.salle.url.edu/MSIADU09/main.html*
October 23, 2009, Beijing, China in conjunction with ACM Multimedia
2009<http://www.acmmm09.org/default.aspx>-
* *http://www.acmmm09.org/default.aspx
This Workshop will be based on the work carried out during the 3rd
International Workshop on Human-Centered Computing
(HCC08)<http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nicu/hcc08.htm>held at the ACM
Multimedia 2008 <http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/> conference in
Vancouver. There participants discussed on how to use technology to achieve
an accessible environment for the disabled.
At present, it is estimated that there are several millions of people with
disabilities worldwide. Focusing on Internet users, the estimated percentage
goes around 10%. There are several contributions that might be highlighted
among the organizations that have studied the classification of
disabilities. Among those, the work of the WHO/OMS (World Health
Organization), the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the WAI (Web
Accessibility Initiative). Major disability types include visual, auditory,
motor and cognitive or related to language use. Moreover that other
"unofficial" disabilities due to the lack of technology alphabetization (no
access or inappropriate equipment and specific audiences like the elderly,
rural, children, etc). According to the Microsoft company: Almost 40% of
people have problems with accessing a computer and only 1% is declared as
disabled. Accessibility as applied to virtual and real environments also
benefits people without disabilities. A key principle is the design of
flexible resources to meet different user needs, preferences and situations.
This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of
Multimedia (studies and implementations) in order to improve accessibility
to real and virtual scenarios that might be applied to all kinds of users
with disabilities or difficulties when implementing concrete actions
(navigation or interaction with a particular medium). We need solutions to
adapt the environment, products and services to the final needs of the user.
As a major topic, this invited proposal seeks to discuss about Multimedia
(in general) and Usability (in particular), helping to increase the current
levels of Accessibility regarding virtual and real interactive environments
where the disabled community can participate.
The goals of this workshop are:
- Fundamental research in the area of Multimedia, within the scope of
disabilities and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
- Solutions to targeted problems of high impact in real-life
applications.
- Compare the research and progress of international projects and their
differences.
Topics:
The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Usability and Accessibility.
- Accessible Multimedia.
- Accessibility for all.
- Trends in Disability.
- Person behavior and Interaction Analysis.
- Applications in Virtual Reality, Multimedia and Gaming.
- Technological novelties, evaluations and solutions.
- User-Experience studies and evaluations.
- Human-Centered Computing.
- Human-Computer Interfaces.
- Human Affect Analysis and Affective Computing.
- Perceptual and Multimodal user interfaces.
- Accessible Architecture.
The constantly growing number of the technologies available causes users to
experience more difficulties while using them. The Multimedia field
addresses that by definition, making applications and resources manage a
greater interactivity, ease of use and audiovisual feedback. It is necessary
to review whether such studies or implementations are not only usable and
accessible but can be adapted to specifically users while generating in them
a satisfactory experience of use.
Target audience includes researchers, designers, experts and scholars, in
the field of usability, accessibility, disabilities, multimedia development,
sociology, psychology, graphic design, among others and its related areas.
These areas include content creation, human-computer-interaction and
usability expertise. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in
this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level.
We welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology,
artistic and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially
unsuccessful), disability installations, technologies, media studies, and
user-experience evaluations are highly welcome.
Participants will be able to observe many different works of accessibility
and projects from a multicultural perspective. All those materials will
relate to multimedia technologies. A selected series of proposals will be
aimed to be developed cooperatively from a multidisciplinary and
multicultural view, to search for possible global solutions to the problems
related to creating adaptable and accessible interfaces.
*IMPORTANT DATES***
All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three
reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of
review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for
their presentation at the workshop. Authors of accepted papers who
registered in the workshop can have access to the evaluations and possible
feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their
papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers.
Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their
respective submissions.
Paper submission: *June 26, 2009*
Notification of acceptance: *July 8, 2009*
Final paper, Camera-ready: *July 24, 2009 -- STRICT DEADLINE!!! *
Workshop day: *October 23, 2009*
Maximum length is 8 pages in English.
All papers must follow the standard ACM style
guidelines<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>and
must be submitted in PDF format using the EDAS
system <http://edas.info>.If you are not already registered on EDAS, go to *
www.edas.info <http://www.salle.url.edu/MSIADU09/www.edas.info> *and
register.
Also you can submit a paper by email at the address: fonsi@salle.url.edu
Proceedings: The proceedings will be published together with the proceedings
of the main conference in electronic format by ACM.
*WORKSHOP CHAIRS***
*David Fonseca (fonsi@salle.url.edu)* - *Oscar Garcia (oscarg@salle.url.edu)
* - *Eva Villegas (evillegas@salle.url.edu)*
*GTM, Grup de Recerca en Tecnologies Media ENGINYERIA I ARQUITECTURA LA
SALLE UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL Quatre Camins 2, 08022 Barcelona (Spain)*
*Jaume Duran* *(jaumeduran@ub.edu)*
*DEVP-CAV / Universitat de Barcelona*
*We have been offering Multimedia solutions for both academia and industry
since 1996. Because of our high degree of expertise in the field of
Usability (one of the first User Labs in Southern Europe), we have recently
decided to prepare this interesting workshop.* *Members of this group has
organized several invited sessions and participated in conferences both
nationally and internationally in the fields of multimedia and disability.*
*PROGRAM COMITTE***
*Dr. Aaron Steinfeld, *Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mello University,
Pittsburgh, USA.
*Dr. Abraham Olivares Escanilla.*Pedagogia en Matematica y
computacion,Universidad de los lagos, Colombia.
*Dra. Alejandra Rocha Silva*. Facultad de Letras y Comunicacion.Universidad
de Colima, Mexico.
*Prof. Andriy Pavlovych.* Dept. of Computer Science; York University,
Toronto, Canada.
*Dr. Angel Garcia Crespo,*Subdirector de Planificacion Docente, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain,
*Dr. Ansgar Scherp*, Donald Bren School, UC Irvine, USA.
*Dr. Anwar Hossain.* Department of Mathematics, New Mexico Institute of
Mining and Technology. USA
*Dr Beryl Plimmer,* Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland,
New Zeland,
*Prof. C. J. Walsh,* Architectural and Technical control design practice,
Chief Technical Consultant, Sustainable Design International Ltd. - Ireland
& Italy.
*Dr. Chi-Lu Yang*, Department of Networks and Multimedia, Institute for
Information Industry, Taiwan
*Dra. **Cristina Cachero,* Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas
Informaticos. Universitat de Alacant. Spain.
*Prof. Cristobal Cabeza, *Audiovisual Translator, Universidad Autonoma de
Barcelona, Spain.
*Dr. Francisco V.C. Ficarra, *Communicability Human-Computer Interaction
Lab. Italy
*Prof. Fernando Paniagua*, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
*Dr. Daniel Hernandez,* Division de Inteligencia Artificial y Sistemas,
Departamento de Informatica y sistemas. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain.
*Dr Gerald Craddock*, Chief Officer, Centre for Excellence in Universal
Design, Dublin, Ireland
*Dra. **Giuliana Vitiello,*Dip. Matematica e Informatica Univ. Salerno,
Italy
*Dr. Giuseppe Polese*, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica Universita
di Salerno, Italy
*Prof. Graciela Selaimen*, Coordinates Rits' Center for Research, Studies
and Capacity Building (Nupef), Brazil
*Prof. Jorge Juan Suarez,* Laboratory for Radiologic Image Research,
Departments of Radiology and Electronics and Computer Science of the
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
*Dr. Jane Mulligan. *Department of Computer Science. University of Colorado,
USA
*Dr. Jorge Madeira, *Responsavel do Servico Informatico da ESDRM, Escola
Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, Portugal
*Dr. Jorge R. Gutierrez Pulido, *Software Development Lab Faculty of
Telematics, University of Colima, Mexico
*Dr. Joseph Spiteri, *Department of Architecture and Urban Design,
University of Malta. Malta
*Dr. Joao Varajao,* Departamento de Engenharias, Universidades de
Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro
*Dr. Jose Silvestre Silva*, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal
*Prof. Juan Andres Fernandez,*Digital Legends, Barcelona, Spain
*Dr. Loic Martinez Normand,* Profesor Asociado del Departamento de Lenguajes
y Sistemas Informaticos e Ingenieria del Software, Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid, Spain
*Prof. Luis Claudio S. Barradas,* Instituto Politecnico de Santarem
-Portugal
*Mrs. Kapka Panayotova*, Board member of The Independent Living Institute
and currently an Acting Chair of the European Network on Independent Living
(ENIL) Board, Bulgary,
*Dra. **Kirstie Hawkey.* EDGE Lab and Faculty of Computer Sicence, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Canada
*Dr. Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz,* Facultad de Telematica, Universidad de Colima,
Mexico
*Prof. Milena Bokova,* Executive Director Bluelink, Bulgary
*Dr. Nikos Sakkas, *Apintech Ltd, Executive Director, Greece
*Prof. Naiara Aginako,* VICOMTech, San Sebastian, Spain
*Dr. Norman M. Sadeh*, School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, USA
*Prof, Omar Choudary, *Insitut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
University of Toulouse, France
*Prof. Pierpaolo Di Bitonto,* Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita degli
Studi di Bari, Italy
*Dra. Pilar Orero,* Transmedia Research Group, Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona, Spain
*Prof. Roberto Laurini,* Computing Department of the National Institute for
Applied Sciences INSA, Lyon, France
*Dra. Rosa Iglesias, *Ikerlan Research Center, Registration Chair ACM
Multimedia 2008, Spain
*Prof. Roselli Teresa*, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita degli Studi
di Bari, Italy,
*Dr. Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan,* Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous
Computing (CUbiC) Foundation Chair in Computing and Informatics
*Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Multimedia Magazine *Professor, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Arizona State University. USA
*Prof. Silvia Fajardo,* Facultad de Telematica, Universidad de Colima,
Mexico,
*Dr. Slobodan Bojanic*, Departamento de Ingenieria Electronica, Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
*Dr. Son T. Vuong,* Computer Science Department, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
*Prof. Sylvie Siyam,* Pre. Protege QV, Association for Progresive
Communications, Cameroon
*Prof. Veronica Rossano,* Department of Computer Science, University of
Bari, Italy
*Prof. Zhivko Tomov,* Blind software developer from Bourgas, Bulgary
*Nekane Navarro*, Directora Delegacion Barcelona Alter Civites
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