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Technical Program
Monday, October 15, 2007
| 8:00 |
Opening of Registration Desk
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| 9:00 |
Opening / Keynote speaker
Session Chair: Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University)
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| 9:10-10:10 |
Opening
Plenary: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication and Control
Jonathan Wolpaw
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| 10:10-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:30 |
Technical Paper Session 1:
Direct manipulation
Session Chair: Andrew Sears (UMBC, USA)
- A Comparison of Area Pointing and Goal Crossing for People with and without Motor Impairments
- Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z. Gajos
- Slipping and drifting: Using older users to uncover pen-based target acquisition difficulties
- Karyn Moffatt and Joanna McGrenere
- Barrier Pointing: Using Physical Edges to Assist Target Acquisition on Mobile Device Touch Screens
- Jon Froehlich, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Shaun Kane
- VoiceDraw: A Voice-Driven Hands-Free Drawing Application for People with Motor Impairments
- Susumu Harada, Jacob O. Wobbrock and James A. Landay
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-14:50 |
Posters
& Demo Session 1
- Evaluation of Onscreen Precompensation Algorithms for Computer Users with Visual Aberrations (Poster)
- Miguel Alonso Jr., Armando Barreto, Julie A. Jacko and Malek Adjouadi
- WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go (Demonstration)
- Jeffrey Bigham and Craig Prince
- Accessible Spaces: Navigating through a Marked Environment with a Camera Phone (Demonstration)
- Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi and James Coughlan
- A Novel Wayfinding System Based on Geo-coded QR Codes for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments (Poster)
- Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Yao-Sheng Chang and Tsen-Yung Wang
- Consolidating Computer Operation and Wheelchair Control (Demonstration)
- Torsten Felzer and Rainer Nordmann
- Equipping Designers by Simulating the Effects of Visual and Hearing Impairments (Demonstration)
- Joy Goodman-Deane, Patrick Langdon, P John Clarkson, Nicholas Caldwell and Ahmed Sarhan
- Developing Usable CAPTCHAs for Blind Users (Demonstration)
- Jonathan Holman, Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Feng and John D'Arcy
- Improving Accessibility of HTML Documents by Generating Image-Tags in a Proxy (Poster)
- Daniel Keysers, Marius Renn and Thomas Breuel
- Older Women and Digital TV: A Case Study (Poster)
- Finger Dance: A sound game for blind people (Poster)
- Daniel Miller, Aaron Parecki and Sarah Douglas
- Humming Control Interface for Hand-Held Devices (Demonstration)
- Sook Young Won, Julius O. Smith and Dong In Lee
Student research competition posters -
Semantic & Syntactic Context-aware Text Entry Methods
- SADIe: Exposing Implicit Information To Improve Accessibility
- Information Overload in Non-Visual Web Transaction: Context Analysis Spells Relief
- A Novel Wayfinding System with Deviation Recovery for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
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| 14:50-15:10 |
Coffee Break
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| 15:10-17:00 |
Technical paper session 2: Web accessibility
Session Chair: Simon Harper (University of Manchester, UK)
- Automatic Accessibility Transcoding for Flash Content
- Daisuke Sato, Hisashi Miyashita, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa
- SAMBA: a semi-automatic method for measuring barriers of accessibility
- Giorgio Brajnik and Raffaella Lomuscio
- WebinSitu: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Sighted Browsing Behavior
- Jeffrey Bigham, Anna Cavender, Jeremy Brudvik, Richard Ladner and Jacob O. Wobbrock
- Effects of sampling methods on web accessibility evaluations
- Giorgio Brajnik, Andrea Mulas and Claudia Pitton
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| 17:00 |
Close
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| 17:30-18:30 |
Open discussion of Web accessibility regulation and policy, and the proposed USACM policy on Web accessibility (http://www.sigaccess.org/policy/USACM-ADA_new820.pdf).
Chaired by Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado, USA
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| 19:00 |
Conference reception
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
| 8:00 |
Opening of Registration Desk
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| 9:00-10:50 |
Technical paper session 3: Non-visual presentation of information
Session Chair: Armando Barreto (Florida International University, USA)
- Improving Accessibility to Statistical Graphs: The iGraph-Lite System
- Leo Ferres, Petro Verkhogliad, Gitte Lindgaard, Louis Boucher, Antoine Chretien and Martin Lachance
- Automated Tactile Graphics Translation: In the Field
- Chandrika Jayant, Matt Renzelmann, Dana Wen, Satria Krisnandi, Richard Ladner and Dan Comden
- Haptic Comparison of Size (Relative Magnitude) in Blind and Sighted People
- Sarah Douglas and Shasta Willson
- aiBrowser for Multimedia --- Introducing Multimedia Content Accessibility for Visually Impaired Users
- Hisashi Miyashita, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa
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| 10:50-11:20 |
Break |
| 11:20-11:50 |
Student research competition presentations
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11:50-12:20 |
Doctoral consortium report and winning presentation
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| 12:20-13:20 |
Lunch |
| 13:20-15:10 |
Technical paper session 4: Teaching and learning
Session Chair: Ray Adams (University of Middlesex, UK)
- Photonote evaluation: aiding students with disabilities in a lecture environment
- Gregory Hughes and Peter Robinson
- Dual Educational Electronic Textbooks: The Starlight Platform
- Dimitris Grammenos, Anthony Savidis, Yannis Georgalis, Themistoklis Bourdenas and Constantine Stephanidis
- A software model to support collaborative mathematical work between Braille and sighted users
- Dominique Archambault, Bernhard Stöger, Mario Batusic, Claudia Fahrengruber and Klaus Miesenberger
- Techniques to Assist in Developing Accessibility Engineers
- Jim Carter and David Fourney
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| 15:10-15:40 |
Break |
| 15:40-17:00 |
Technical paper session 5: Older and younger
Session Chair: Yeliz Yesilada (University of Manchester, UK)
- Providing Good Memory Cues for People with Episodic Memory Impairment
- Matthew Lee and Anind Dey
- Data Visualisation and Data Mining Technology for Supporting Care for Older People
- Nubia Gil, Nicolas Hine, John Arnott, Julienne Hanson, Richard Curry, Telmo Amaral and Dorota Osipovic
- An Operantly Conditioned Looking Task for Assessing Infant Auditory Processing Ability
- Jason Nawyn, Cynthia Roesler, Teresa Realpe-Bonilla, Naseem Choudhury and April Benasich
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| 17:10 |
SIGACCESS Business Meeting |
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
| 8:00 |
Opening of Registration Desk
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| 8:30-10:20 |
Technical paper session 6: Personal Technologies
Session Chair: Jinjuan Feng (Towson University, USA)
- Using Participatory Activities with Seniors to Critique, Build, and Evaluate Mobile Phones
- Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker and Michael Wu
- Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication
- Neva Cherniavsky, Anna Cavender, Richard Ladner and Eve Riskin
- Observing Sara: A case study of a blind person’s interactions with technology
- Kristen Shinohara and Josh Tenenberg
- Understanding Mobile Phone Requirements for Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities
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| 10:20-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:10 |
Poster and demonstration session 2
- Improving the Outcomes of Students with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities: Phase I Development for a Web Accessibility Tool (Poster)
- Aaron Andersen and Cyndi Rowland
- Feedback-based Evaluation Tool for Web Accessibility (Poster)
- Daisuke Asai, Masahiro Watanabe and Yoko Asano
- Simulation to Predict Performance of Assistive Interfaces (Poster)
- Pradipta Biswas and Peter Robinson
- Performance Analysis of an Integrated Eye Gaze Tracking / Electromyogram Cursor Control System (Poster)
- Craig Chin, Armando Barreto, J. Gualberto Cremades and Malek Adjouadi
- EasyVoice: Integrating voice synthesis with Skype (Demonstration)
- Paulo Condado and Fernando Lobo
- Adoption and Configuration of Assistive Technologies: A Semiotic Engineering Perspective (Poster)
- A Demonstration of a Conversationally Guided Smart Wheelchair (Demonstration)
- Beth Ann Hockey and David Miller
- Demo of VJ-Voicebot: Control of Robotic Arm with the Vocal Joystick (Demonstration)
- Brandi House, Jon Malkin and Jeff Bilmes
- Comparing Speaker-Dependent and Speaker-Adaptive Acoustic Models for Recognizing Dysarthric Speech (Poster)
- MathPlayer V2.1: Web-based Math Accessibility (Demonstration)
Plus posters from the Doctoral Consortium
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| 12:10-13:10 |
Lunch |
| 13:10-15:00 |
Technical paper session 7. Supporting Communication
Session Chair: Vicki Hanson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
- The design and field evaluation of PhotoTalk: a digital image communication application for people with aphasia
- Meghan Allen, Joanna McGrenere and Barbara Purves.
- Corpus Studies in Word Prediction
- Keith Trnka and Kathleen McCoy
- SIBYLLE: a system for alternative communication adapting to the context and its user
- Tonio Wandmacher, Jean-Yves Antoine and Franck Poirier
- Evaluating American Sign Language Generation Through the Participation of Native ASL Signers
- Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck
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| 15:00-15:20 |
Conference closing and awards |
| 15:20 |
Close |
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| Events and Timeline |
| Requests for mentors |
25 March 2007 |
| Paper submissions |
25 May 2007
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| Panel,
poster, and demonstrations
submissions |
22
June 2007 |
| Acceptance
notification for papers |
6
July 2007 |
| Doctoral Consortium Proposal submissions |
13 July 2007 |
| Student research competition submission |
13 July 2007 |
| Acceptance
notification for other venues |
20
July 2007 |
| Camera-ready
all venues |
8
August 2007 |
| Doctoral Consortium |
14
October 2007 |
| ASSETS Conference |
15-17
October 2007 |
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