SIGACCESS Newsletter

The SIGACCESS Newsletter aims to communicate with its members news, interviews and events that are of interest to people in the field of Accessible Computing. Here you will find the current edition of the newsletter plus links to archived editions that are available online.

SIGACCESS’s strength has always lay in the willingness of its members to volunteer and foster a community spirit. In a similar fashion, the newsletter is written for our members by the efforts of our members. Therefore any contributions and suggestions about the newsletter are appreciated and should be directed to the SIGACCESS Newsletter Editor at editors_sigaccess@acm.org.

Current Edition: January 2010 (Issue 96)

Full January 2010 Issue in One Large File

Individual Articles

1. A Note from the Editor
   Sri Kurniawan and Jinjuan Heidi Feng
2. Persuasive Mobile Exercise Companion for Teenagers with Weight Management Issues
   Sonia Arteaga
3. Widget Identification and Modification for Web 2.0 Access Technologies (WIMWAT)
   Alex Q. Chen
4. Sign Language Synthesis: Skeleton Modelling for More Realistic Gestures
   Maxime Delorme
5. AudioNav: A Mixed Reality Navigation System for Individuals Who Are Visually Impaired
   Navid Fallah
6. Using Interactive Objects for Speech Intervention
   Foad Hamidi
7. Assistive Systems for Children with Dyslexia and Autism
   Harini Sampath, Jayanthi Sivaswamy, and Bipin Indurkhya
8. MobileAccessibility: Camera Focalization for Blind and Low- Vision Users On the Go
   Chandrika Jayant
9. Modeling Animations of American Sign Language Verbs through Motion-Capture of Native ASL Signers
   Pengfei Lu
10. An Online Multimedia Language Assistant for People with Aphasia and Other Language Barriers
    Xiaojuan Ma
11. Haptic/Audio Based Exergaming for Visually Impaired Individuals
    Anthony Morelli
12. Improving Vocabulary Organization in Assistive Communication Tools: A Mixed-Initiative Approach
    Sonya Nikolova
13. ASSETS 2010: The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility