ASSETS 2008 News

ASSETS 2008 Trip Report

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:47:00 +0000

Top caliber accessibility research, a small friendly gathering, and a picturesque setting-these were just a few of the highlights of the Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’08).

ASSETS ’08 took place from October 12-15, 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax boasts the world’s second largest natural port and is a lively city on the Atlantic coast and home to several breweries (Yum!). The conference was held at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, overlooking the spectacular waterfront, and close to the heart of downtown.

Though most attendees spent Sunday checking into the hotel and visiting the Harbourwalk, for a small number of attendees the conference officially started early that morning. This year 11 students participated in the Doctoral Consortium, a one-day workshop, where PhD students present their research and receive feedback from a panel of senior researchers. The consortium is typically an intense, but exceedingly helpful experience. From what I heard from this year’s cohort, 2008 was no exception.

One of my favourite things about ASSETS is its intimate size. Because it is a relatively small conference, it remains friendly and provides ample opportunity to both catch-up with old friends and make new ones. A prime example of this was the welcome event on Sunday night. After gathering in the conference lobby, Simon Harper, our fearless leader (and the 2008 general chair) confidently lead us through downtown in search of local beer and friendly atmosphere. We quickly found a suitable pub, and spent the rest of the evening gathered cozily around a few large tables, meeting each other and enjoying food and drink.

With Monday morning came the start of the main program, and still a little jet-lagged-not to mention a little tired from the night before-we stumbled into the conference. Fortunately, Dr. Ron Baecker roused our sleepy eyes with an invocative opening plenary on the design of technology to aid cognition. I don’t think I was the only attendee a little embarrassed by teary eyes after seeing the video portion of his presentation. His topic was not only captivating, but also timely: there was a marked trend in the program this year towards research on memory and cognition.

In total, 29 papers were presented over the three-day conference covering a wide range of topics. Web-accessibility continued to be a hot topic, but research also ventured in a few new directions including gaming and the use of social networks to improve accessibility. Lunches and coffee breaks provided occasions to mix with other conference attendees and to check out the 34 posters and demonstrations, as well as the posters from the 9 student research competition semi-finalists and the doctoral consortium attendees. There was a lot to see, but luckily a reception Monday night provided even more opportunity to meet, mingle, and catch all the new and exciting research.

ASSETS ’08 was particularly special, as the first ever SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility was presented at a banquet Tuesday night. This biennial award recognizes individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the development of computing technologies that improve the accessibility of media and services to people with disabilities. This year’s award went to Dr. Jim Thatcher for his pioneering work on screen readers. Dr. Thatcher graciously accepted the award and humbly joked about his amazing life, as we devoured a scrumptious meal.

In general, the quality of the research presented this year was exceptional, but two papers were noted as standing above the rest. This year the ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award went to Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, and I. V. Ramakrishnan for their paper, “What’s new?: Making web page updates accessible.” And, the ACM SIGACCESS Best Paper Award went to Jinjuan Feng, Jonathan Lazar, Libby Kumin, and Ant Ozok for their paper, “Computer usage by young individuals with down syndrome: An exploratory study.”

Mirroring its start, the conference closed with an informal gathering around local beer and friendly conversation. I, unfortunately, missed out on that event as I had to rush off to the airport. But I left full of excitement for next year’s conference, and full of ideas for new research. So as much as I longed to stay just a little bit longer, I couldn’t wait to get home and to start on those ideas! I hope to see everyone next October (26-28) in Pittsburgh, PA.

Karyn Moffatt
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia

ASSETS 2008 Programme

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:21:00 +0000

Below is the full programme for ASSETS 2008. Please note there have been changes from the original published programme.

Sunday, 12th October 2008

Programme of Events for Sunday, 12th October 2008
Time	Programme
08:00 - 17:00	Doctoral Consortium Papers (Invitation Only Sessions) (Closed Session) Chair: John Black and Giorgio Brajnik 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.	Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) Hands-on Session (St Mary's University) Chair: Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi 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.
20:00 - 22:00	Welcome to Halifax (Out On The Town) Chair: Simon Harper We'll be having an informal gathering on Sunday night drinks / food and conversation - not included in the registration fee. Details will be posted on the site and sent to each registered member by email before the conference.

Monday, 13th October 2008

Programme of Events for Monday, 13th October 2008
Time	Programme
08:00 - 09:00	Conference Registration (Foyer) Chair: Yeliz Yesilada 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.
09:00 - 09:30	Conference Opening address (Main Conference Room) Chair: Simon Harper
09:30 - 10:30	Opening Keynote (Main Conference Room) Chair: Armando Barreto Prof. Ronald M. Baecker, Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Toronto, Canada.
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break (Foyer)	Doctoral Consortium Posters (Foyer) Chair: John Black A chance to see the work of our Doctoral Consortium students.	Microsoft Student Research Competition Posters (Foyer) Chair: Matt Huenerfauth See the work in contention for the ACM Microsoft Student Research Competition.
11:30 - 12:30	Cognition and Memory (I) (Main Conference Room) Software and Technologies Designed for People with Autism: What do users want? Cynthia Putnam, Lorna Chong A3: A Coding Guideline for HCI+Autism Research using Video Annotation Joshua Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle, Laura DeThorne, Mary-Kelsey Coletto 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
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch (Dining Room)	Doctoral Consortium Posters (Foyer) Chair: John Black A chance to see the work of our Doctoral Consortium students.	Microsoft Student Research Competition Posters (Foyer) Chair: Matt Huenerfauth See the work in contention for the ACM Microsoft Student Research Competition.
14:00 - 15:30	Cognition and Memory (II) (Main Conference Room) A Context Aware Handheld Wayfinding System for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Tsen-Yung Wang Computer usage by young individuals with Down syndrome: An exploratory study Jinjuan Feng, Jonathan Lazar, Libby Kumin, Ant Ozok Understanding Pointing Problems in Real World Computing Environments Amy Hurst, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break (Foyer)	Doctoral Consortium Posters (Foyer) Chair: Giorgio Brajnik A chance to see the work of our Doctoral Consortium students.	Microsoft Student Research Competition Posters (Foyer) Chair: Matt Huenerfauth See the work in contention for the ACM Microsoft Student Research Competition.
16:00 - 17:30	Older Adults (Main Conference Room) Hover or Tap? Supporting Pen-based Menu Navigation for Older Adults Karyn Moffatt, Sandra Yuen, Joanna McGrenere Technology Devices for Older Adults to Aid Self Management of Chronic Health Conditions Amritpal Singh Bhachu, Nicolas Hine, John Arnott How older and younger adults differ in their approach to problem solving on a complex website Peter Fairweather
19:00 - 21:00	Welcome Drinks Reception (Foyer)		Posters (Foyer) Chair: Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi Posters and system demonstrations will run in concert with the drinks reception.

Tuesday, 14th October 2008

Programme of Events for Tuesday, 14th October 2008
Time	Programme
08:30 - 09:00	Conference Registration (Foyer) Chair: Yeliz Yesilada 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.
09:00 - 10:30	Vision (Main Conference Room) Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques Shaun Kane, Jeffrey Bigham, Jacob Wobbrock Note-Taker: Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class David Hayden, Dirk Colbry, John Black , Sethuraman Panchanathan Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment Grégory Petit, Aude Dufresne, Vincent Levesque, Vincent Hayward, Nicole Trudeau
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break (Foyer)	System Demonstrations (Foyer) Chair: Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi System Demonstrations will occur in parallel with Coffee and Lunch.
11:00 - 12:00	Audio Interaction (Main Conference Room) Constructing Relational Diagrams in Audio: The Multiple Perspective Hierarchical Approach Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tony Stockman Advanced Auditory Menus: Design And Evaluation Of Auditory Scroll Bars Pavani Yalla, Bruce Walker
12:00 - 13:00	Microsoft Student Research Competition (Finalists Presentations) (Main Conference Room) Chair: Matt Huenerfauth Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognised venue for graduate student research.
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch (Dining Room)	System Demonstrations (Foyer) Chair: Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi System Demonstrations will occur in parallel with Coffee and Lunch.
14:00 - 15:30	Accessibility Studies (Main Conference Room) A comparative test of web accessibility evaluation methods Giorgio Brajnik Investigating Sighted Users' Browsing Behaviour to Assist Web Accessibility Eleni Michailidou, Simon Harper, Sean Bechhofer Evaluation of a Psycholinguistically Motivated Timing Model for Animations of American Sign Language Matt Huenerfauth
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break (Foyer)	System Demonstrations (Foyer) Chair: Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi System Demonstrations will occur in parallel with Coffee and Lunch.
16:00 - 17:30	Web Accessibility (Main Conference Room) A User Evaluation of the SADIe Transcoder Darren Lunn, Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper What's New? - Making Web Page Updates Accessible Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I.V. Ramakrishnan Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Infrastructure for Web Accessibility Shinya Kawanaka, Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey Bigham, Darren Lunn, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa
18:00 - 19:00	SIGACCESS Business Meeting (Main Conference Room) Chair: Vicki Hanson Open Meeting all attendees are invited.
19:30 - 21:30	Conference Dinner (Dining Room) Chair: Vicki Hanson Dinner and presentation of the ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility: The award recognises individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the development of computing technologies which improve the accessibility of media and services to people with disabilities.

Wednesday, 15th October 2008

Programme of Events for Wednesday, 15th October 2008
Time	Programme
08:30 - 09:00	Conference Registration (Foyer) Chair: Yeliz Yesilada 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.
09:00 - 10:30	Games and Gaming (Main Conference Room) Sudoku Access: A Sudoku Game for People with Motor Disabilities Stéphane Norte, Fernando Lobo Blind Hero: Enabling Guitar Hero for the Visually Impaired Bei Yuan, Eelke Folmer PowerUp: An accessible virtual world Shari Trewin, Vicki Hanson, Mark Laff, Anna Cavender
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break (Foyer)
11:00 - 12:30	Collaborative Accessibility (Main Conference Room) RouteCheckr: Personalized Multicriteria Routing for Mobility Impaired Pedestrians Thorsten Völkel, Gerhard Weber Social Accessibility: Achieving Accessibility through Collaborative Metadata Authoring Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Msatomo Kobayashi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa Hunting for Headings: Sighted Labelers vs. Automatic Classification of Headings Jeremy Brudvik, Jeffrey Bigham, Anna Cavender, Richard Ladner
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch (Dining Room)
13:30 - 15:00	Motor Function (Main Conference Room) Please Note the Early Start for This Session Text Entry for Mobile Devices and Users with Severe Motor Impairments: HandiGlyph, a Primitive Shapes Based Onscreen Keyboard Mohammed Belatar, Franck Poirier Performance-Based Functional Assessment: An Algorithm for Measuring Physical Capabilities Kathleen Price, Andrew Sears Laser Pointers and a Touch Screen: Intuitive Robot Interfaces for the Severely Motor Impaired Young Sang Choi, Cressel Anderson, Jonathan Glass, Charles Kemp
15:00 - 15:15	ASSETS 2008 Awards (Main Conference Room) Chair: Armando Barreto SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Presented to the individual(s) judged by an awards committee to have written the best paper appearing in the ASSETS conference proceedings. SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Presented to the individual(s) judged by an awards committee to have written the best paper appearing in the ASSETS conference proceedings. To be considered for the Best Student Paper Award, the student must be the first author.
15:15 - 15:30	Closing Announcements (Main Conference Room) Chair: Simon Harper 2008 Close and Thanks. Looking forward to 2009.
19:00 - 22:00	Staying Over Drinks Chair: Simon Harper Staying over in Halifax? Flight not until Thursday? Staying for Sightseeing? We'll be having an informal gathering on Wednesday night drinks / food and conversation - not included in the registration fee.

Early Bird Registration

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:29:00 +0000

Registration for ASSETS 2008 is now open. The deadline for Early Registration is 4th August 2008.

The registration costs for ASSETS 2008 are as follows:

Early Registration (before 4th August 2008)
ACM/SIGACCESS members $450 (CAD)
Non-ACM/SIGACCESS members $550 (CAD)
Student $300 (CAD)

Late and on-site Registration (after 4th August 2008)
ACM/SIGACCESS members $550 (CAD)
Non-ACM/SIGACCESS members $650 (CAD)
Student $350 (CAD)

Registration Is Now Open

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:35:00 +0000

Delegates can now register for ASSETS 2008.

Prices for ASSETS 2008 are fixed in the currency of US Dollars (USD). Up to date conversions can be found online at: http://www.xe.com.

Please note that the deadline for Early Registration is 4th August 2008.

Registration Fees
Delegate Type	Early Registration	Regular Registration
ACM Member	$450 (USD)	$550 (USD)
Non-ACM Member	$550 (USD)	$650 (USD)
Student	$300 (USD)	$350 (USD)

Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2008)

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:08:00 +0000

October 13-15, 2008
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets08/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ASSETS series of conferences explores the potential for Computer and Information Technologies to enhance the lives of individuals with disabilities and those around them. ASSETS is the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies to support people with disabilities. Since 1994, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its SIGACCESS Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing has sponsored the ASSETS series of conferences. This year's conference includes formal paper sessions, demonstrations, posters, a doctoral consortium, and a student research competition. The single track and friendly atmosphere make ASSETS the ideal venue to meet researchers, practitioners, developers and policy-makers to exchange ideas, share information, and make new contacts.

Topics

High quality, original submissions on topics relevant to computers and accessibility are invited. This includes the use of technology by and in support of:

individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments,
individuals with motor impairments,
individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments,
individuals with multiple impairments,
older adults

Submissions should present novel ideas, designs, techniques, systems, tools, evaluations, scientific investigations, methodologies, social issues or policy issues relating to:

assistive technologies that improve day-to-day life
assistive technologies that improve access to mainstream Computer and Information Technologies
innovative use of mainstream technologies to overcome access barriers
accessibility and usability of mainstream technologies
identification of barriers to technology access that are not addressed by existing research

Where relevant, work that includes empirical data from the target user group is strongly preferred.

Submission Procedures

ASSETS accepts submissions in the following categories:

Technical papers
Posters
Demonstrations
Student research competition
Doctoral consortium

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material.

Important Dates

Important Dates For ASSETS 2008
Paper	Date
Technical Paper submissions	05 May 2008
Technical Reviews Complete	30 May 2008
Optional Author Rebuttal Open	02 Jun 2008
Optional Author Rebuttal Close	06 Jun 2008
Technical Rebuttal Responses	13 Jun 2008
Acceptance notification for technical papers	16 Jun 2008
Poster, and demonstrations submissions	23 June 2008
Student Research Competition Submissions	23 June 2008
Doctoral Consortium submissions	23 June 2008
Acceptance notification for other papers	07 Jul 2008
Camera-ready all venues	04 Aug 2008
Doctoral Consortium	12 Oct 2008
ASSETS Conference	13 Oct 2008

Mentors

Looking for help with your poster, demo, doctoral consortium submission, or student research competition submission? Help with submissions by seasoned researchers is available through the ASSETS Mentoring Program. Mentors will be experienced ASSETS contributors, who can help authors to improve their submissions. If you think you would benefit from mentoring either because you are new to presenting your research, new to the type of category you are interested in submitting to or simply find that preparing English language papers foreign to your paper writing experience, please consider applying for mentoring help. See the mentor program page for more information.

Important Mentoring Dates For ASSETS 2008
Paper	Date
Technical Paper (8 pages): 2-3 Page Research Description	Jan 07, 2008
Rough Draft of Submission	Feb 04, 2008
Pre-mentoring Submission	Mar 03, 2008
Other Papers (2 pages): Rough Draft of Submission	Mar 24, 2008
Pre-mentoring Submission	Apr 21, 2008
Other Papers (2 pages): Rough Draft of Submission	Mar 24, 2008

CFP: SRC + Requesting a Mentor

noreply@blogger.com (Anna C. Cavender) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:54:00 +0000

The ASSETS series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results that address the use of computing and information technologies to help persons with disabilities. This email contains information about the third annual SIGACCESS Student Research Competition and requesting mentors through the SIGACCESS Mentor Programme.

STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION

Students working on computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities are invited to enter the third annual SIGACCESS Student Research Competition. This is an exciting opportunity for students to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research. Students wishing to participate submit abstracts of their work, and up to 25 entrants will be selected for the competition. Qualifying research must deal with issues related to computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. Selected students will receive partial support from ACM to attend the conference. At the conference, entrants will display a poster and make a brief presentation to a panel of judges. A small number of semifinalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work in a conference session, and of those up to three undergraduate and three graduate students will be designated finalists by the judges, and entered in the Grand Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition.

Eligibility

Entrants must be undergraduate or graduate students, and members of ACM. Entrants must be sole authors of their abstracts and posters. Work accepted as a full paper for one of the technical sessions of the conference cannot also be considered for the Student Research Competition. Students having a technical paper, however, are encouraged to submit other research to the Student Research Competition. Please note that the judges will look more favourably on complete, or nearly complete, work than research which is still in its early formative stages. Students at, or near, the outset of their work in this area are encouraged to submit to the Doctoral Consortium instead. The deadline for the 2-page abstracts is Monday 23 June 2008 (Midnight HST) See the student research competition web page at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/submission/src.php for more information and the submission system, which will be open shortly.

REQUESTING A MENTOR

Help with submissions by seasoned researchers is available through the ASSETS Mentoring Program. Mentors are experienced prior ASSETS program committee members who have themselves published in the ASSETS technical paper program. They may help with any of the following:

deciding whether the ASSETS conference is an appropriate venue for your work
deciding whether your work should be submitted as a paper, poster or demo
identifying relevant previous research
planning an appropriate research methodology
structuring a technical paper submission
identifying any weaker aspects of a submission and suggesting ways to improve those areas

Important deadlines for requesting a mentor: Technical Paper (8 pages):
Monday 07 January 2008 (Midnight HST) -> 2-3 Page Research Description
Monday 04 February 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Rough Draft of Submission
Monday 03 March 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Completed Submission (Pre-mentoring)
Monday 05 May 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Conference Submission

Other Papers (2 pages):
Monday 24 March 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Rough Draft of Submission
Monday 21 April 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Completed Submission (Pre-mentoring)
Monday 23 May 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Conference Submission

See the mentor programme web page at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/submission/mentors.php for more information and an application form.

Submitting Papers To ASSETS

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:14:00 +0000

The ASSETS Conference is developed with the specific focus of facilitating sharing of information, exchange of ideas, through formal paper sessions, demonstrations, posters, and student research/doctoral consortium sessions. To this purpose, ASSETS is a single track conference to encourage group participation and interactions. The matrix below shows who is eligible for submission to each session and where those submissions will be published.

Important Submission Information
Paper Category	Applicant	PhD First Half	PhD Second Half	Mentoring Available	Published In	Lodged In
Technical	Anybody	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proceedings	ACM Digital Library
Posters & Demonstrations	Anybody	Yes Greyed Out	Yes Greyed Out	Yes	Proceedings	ACM Digital Library
Doctoral Consortium	Students	Yes Greyed Out	No Greyed Out	Yes	Newsletter	ACM Digital Library
Student Research Competition	Students	No Greyed Out	Yes Greyed Out	Yes	Proceedings	ACM Digital Library

Key:

Submission to a session that is greyed out excludes submission to another.

Mentoring Programme

noreply@blogger.com (Media Chair) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:28:00 +0000

Help with submissions by seasoned researchers is available through the ASSETS Mentoring Program. Applicants may receive advice on their submission in any of the submission categories provided by ASSETS. Although we do not guarantee that your submission will be accepted by ASSETS, most individuals who have used the mentoring service at ASSETS or at the CHI conference where it began have reported positive experiences and an improved understanding of what is required by reviewers.

If you think you would benefit from mentoring either because you are new to presenting your research, new to the type of category you are interested in submitting to or simply find that preparing English language papers foreign to your paper writing experience, please consider applying for mentoring help. For more information, and to apply to the mentoring programme, please see the ASSETS Mentor Programme Page.

ASSETS 2008 Author's Rebuttal Procedure

noreply@blogger.com (Darren Lunn) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:32:00 +0000

As preparations for ASSETS 2008 continue, the general conference Chair, Dr. Simon Harper and SIGACCESS Chair, Vicky Hanson, have decided to propose to enhance the reviewing process by allowing an optional author's rebuttal to the initial set of reviewers' comments.

It is hoped that this extra step in the process might help resolve instances in which simple clarifications to ambiguities or minor omissions in the submissions, raised by the reviewers, could project some of the papers in their full worth.

The process should help in reducing the instances in which minor details or communication imprecision prevent worthwhile research endeavours from being assessed in their full impact. Furthermore, the added effort implicit in the rebuttal stage should be minimised by performing the reviewing process on a submission/reviewing system that fully supports this stage.

For full details, please see the Author's Rebuttal Prceducre pages.

Welcome to the ASSETS 2008 Website

noreply@blogger.com (Darren Lunn) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:05:00 +0000

Welcome to the new ASSETS 2008 website. The website is now complete and has a News facility which is available from the home page. News items will be regularly updated on this page, so please remember to check on a regular basis. Alternatively you can subscribe to our RSS feed and have new items sent to you as they occur. We hope you find the website user friendly and easy to navigate. If you would like to make any comments about the site or suggest information that you would like to see available here, please contact the ASSETS 2008 Media Chair.