ASSETS 2008

This is a closed session. You can see the work and speak to the students in the Tuesday Poster Sessions at the coffee and lunch breaks.

There are sets of accessibility components that researchers and engineers can use for their development work. For example, aDesigner, Flash accessibility validation engines, ai-Browser for multimedia and so on, which have been presented in the previous ASSETS conferences have been opensourced after conponentization on the Eclipse ACTF. In addition, we will introduce APIs for "Accessibility Commons", a metadata repository that allows you to store the metadata you generated and share the metadata in your browser environment. In this hands-on session, we would like to introduce sets of useful components for Web accessibility research. Each attendee will experience writing some code using some of components of the ACTF. The detailed agenda will be introduced soon, but if you are interested in opensource components, please plan to attend the hands-on session.

Registration will be nominally open until 12:30 pm on Monday. In the event of the desk being unattended or closed please email rc-assets08-at-sigaccess.org.

Prof. Ronald M. Baecker, Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Toronto, Canada.

1. Software and Technologies Designed for People with Autism: What do users want?
   Cynthia Putnam, Lorna Chong
2. A3: A Coding Guideline for HCI+Autism Research using Video Annotation
   Joshua Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle, Laura DeThorne, Mary-Kelsey Coletto
3. Technology for Just-In-Time In-Situ Learning of Facial Affect for Persons Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
   Miriam Madsen, Rana el Kaliouby, Matthew Goodwin, Rosalind Picard

1. A Context Aware Handheld Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
   Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Tsen-Yung Wang
2. Computer usage by young individuals with Down syndrome: An exploratory study
   Jinjuan Feng, Jonathan Lazar, Libby Kumin, Ant Ozok
3. Understanding Pointing Problems in Real World Computing Environments
   Amy Hurst, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson

1. Hover or Tap? Supporting Pen-based Menu Navigation for Older Adults
   Karyn Moffatt, Sandra Yuen, Joanna McGrenere
2. Technology Devices for Older Adults to Aid Self Management of Chronic Health Conditions
   Amritpal Singh Bhachu, Nicolas Hine, John Arnott
3. How older and younger adults differ in their approach to problem solving on a complex website
   Peter Fairweather

Registration will be nominally open until 12:30 pm on Monday. In the event of the desk being unattended or closed please email rc-assets08-at-sigaccess.org.

System Demonstrations will occur in parallel with Coffee and Lunch.

Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognised venue for graduate student research.

1. A comparative test of web accessibility evaluation methods
   Giorgio Brajnik
2. Investigating Sighted Users' Browsing Behaviour to Assist Web Accessibility
   Eleni Michailidou, Simon Harper, Sean Bechhofer
3. Evaluation of a Psycholinguistically Motivated Timing Model for Animations of American Sign Language
   Matt Huenerfauth

1. A User Evaluation of the SADIe Transcoder
   Darren Lunn, Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper
2. What's New? - Making Web Page Updates Accessible
   Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I.V. Ramakrishnan
3. Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Infrastructure for Web Accessibility
   Shinya Kawanaka, Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey Bigham, Darren Lunn, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa

Registration will be nominally open until 12:30 pm on Monday. In the event of the desk being unattended or closed please email rc-assets08-at-sigaccess.org.