SIGACCESS Awards

ACM has approved two awards for SIGACCESS, see SIGACCESS Awards.

SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Awarded annually for the best paper appearing in the ASSETS conference proceedings.

SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Awarded annually for the best paper appearing in the ASSETS conference proceedings where the student is the first author.

Award: The award recipients are presented with a certificate from ACM.

The following have been awarded:

2007:

ACM SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu and Jan Allbeck . “Evaluating American Sign Language Generation Through the Participation of Native ASL Signers”

ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Karyn Moffatt and Joanna McGrenere. “Slipping and drifting: Using older users to uncover pen-based target acquisition difficulties”

2006:

SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Rick Kjeldsen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, “Improvements in vision-based pointer control”

SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin , University of Washington, “MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video as constrained by mobile phone technology”

2005:

SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Matt Huenerfauth, University of Pennsylvania, “Representing Coordination and Non-Coordination in an American Sign Language Animation”

SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Stephen E. Krufka and Kenneth E. Barner, University of Delaware, “Automatic Production of Tactile Graphics from Scalable Vector Graphics”

2004:

ASSETS Best Paper Award: Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, and Edmund F. LoPresti. "Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads"

ASSETS Best Student Paper: Faustina Hwang, Patrick Langdon, John Clarkson, and Simeon Keates. "Mouse Movements of Motion-Impaired Users: A Submovement Analysis"

2002:

ASSETS Best Paper Award: H. Takagi, C. Asakawa, K. Fukuda, and J. Maeda. “Site-Wide annotation: Reconstructing existing pages to be accessible”

ASSETS Best Student Paper: S. Karimullah and A. Sears. “Speech-Based Cursor Control”

2000:

ASSETS Best Paper Award: P. Gregor and A. F. Newell. “An empirical investigation of ways in which some of the problems encountered by some dyslexics may be alleviated using computer techniques"

ASSETS Best Student Paper: Edmund F. LoPresti, David M. Brienza, Jennifer Angelo, Lars Gilbertson, Jonathan Sakai. “Neck range of motion and use of computer head controls”

1998:

ASSETS Best Paper Award: C. Asakawa and T. Itoh. "User Interface of a Home Page Reader"

ASSETS Best Student Paper: Shari Trewin and Helen Pain. “A Model of Keyboard Configuration Requirements”