Doctoral Consortium

Student Participants, Affiliations and Paper Titles:

	A method for enhancing digital information displayed to computer users with visual refractive errors via spatial and spectral based processing Alonso, Miguel, Florida Intl Univ, USA
	Accessibility and usability model for mobile devices in home health monitoring Hubert, Rita, Pace Univ, USA
	Distal object perception through haptic user interfaces for users who are blind Kahol, Kanav, Arizona State Univ, USA
	Clique: A conversant, task-based audio display for GUI Applications Parente, Peter, UNC - Chapel Hill, USA
	Using functional assessments to improve research, design, and technology matching Price, Kathy, UMBC, USA
	Storytelling as a virtual peer as an intervention for children with autism Tartaro, Andrea, Northwestern Univ, USA
	Accessility heuristics utilizing learnability characteristics of synthesized speech applications Wattenberg, Ted, NOVA Southeastern Univ, USA
	A robust deisgn for accessible text entry Wobbrock, Jacob, CMU, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairperson:

Julie A. Jacko
Georgia Institute Of Technology (USA)

Doctoral Consortium Faculty Advisors:

	Professor Armando B. Barreto Florida International University (USA)
	Professor Anthony Hornof University of Oregon (USA)
	Professor Steven J. Landry Purdue University (USA)
	Professor Jonathan Lazar Towson University (USA)

Doctoral Consortium Transitional Advisor:

V. Kathlene Leonard
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Sunday, October 9, 2005

Doctoral Consortium Program Agenda:

Time	Speaker
8:30-9:00	Introductions and continental breakfast
9:00-9:45	Miguel Alonso, Florida International University
9:45-10:30	Rita Hubert, Pace University
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:45	Kanav Kahol, Arizona State University
11:45-12:30	Peter Parente, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Kathy Price, UMBC
2:15-3:00	Andrea Tartaro, Northwestern University
3:00-3:30	Break
3:30-4:15	Ted Wattenberg, NOVA Southeastern University
4:15-5:00	Jacob Wobbrock, CMU
5:30	Dinner