A Workshop at the BCS HCI Conference 2008
September 2, 2008
Liverpool University
Introduction
The emergence of the inclusive information society has placed emphasis upon the notion of accessibility. Accessibility is defined, for present purposes, as the absence of barriers that would otherwise hinder users in the use of technology to achieve their objectives effectively. Such barriers reflect system design and implementation factors, user characteristics and their interaction. It is becoming increasingly clear that accessibility is itself a complex concept and can be defined at a number of levels and from a number of perspectives. Thus the concept of accessibility itself needs to be developed to meet the demands of such complexity in a way that is accessible to system designers and other practitioners.
Topics of Interest
Possible topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to innovations in:
- Concepts of accessibility
- Measures of accessibility
- Web accessibility
- User modelling and accessibility
- ccessibility standards
- Accessibility in the context of the Information Society
- Accessibility: doorway to creativity for all
- Adaptable and adaptive systems
- Ambient intelligent solutions for better accessibility
- Case studies
Submissions should highlight research in one or more of these areas which have a high potential of informing other areas. The workshop will seek to stimulate discussions of the overlaps within the above topics and directions for future research.
Paper Submission & Publication
We are seeking submissions of original papers that fit well with the workshop topics. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length. Electronic submissions should be emailed as PDF files to ray.adams@mdx.ac.uk.
Programme
There will be two keynote presentations outlining the current state of the art and their challenges, and a number of peer-reviewed papers addressing research challenges.
Programme Committee
To be announced.
Workshop Chairs
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs:
Dr Ray Adams
Centre Head
CIRCUA (Collaborative International Research Centre for Universal Access)
School of Computing Science
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
Hendon
London NW4 4BT
ray.adams@mdx.ac.ukProfessor Helen Petrie
Department of Computer Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
petrie@cs.york.ac.uk