SIGACCESS Volunteers

SIGACCESS Volunteers, operating under the leadership of the Chair, Andrew Sears, are all well-known and respected among the accessibility community, and bring a range of valuable experience to the SIG.

Chair

Andrew Sears

Institution:

UMBC, USA

Phone:

+1 410 455 3883

E-mail:

chair_sigaccess@acm.org

Biography:

Andrew Sears joined UMBC in 1999 and has served as the Chair of the Information Systems Department since 2002. At UMBC, he founded the Interactive Systems Research Center. He has chaired CHI 2001 and ASSETS 2005. He also served in numerous other capacities on the organizing committees of these and other conferences. His research and expert opinion on information technology and IT workforce issues have been reported by a variety of media sources including ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, Baltimore Business Journal, the Baltimore Examiner, WEAA radio, WYPR radio, and Maryland Public Television. Andrew Sears, working with Vicki Hanson, founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. He is co-Editor of the Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, published by CRC Press, which is now in its second edition.

Vice Chair

Enrico Pontelli

Institution:

New Mexico State University, USA

E-mail:

vc_sigaccess@acm.org

Biography:

Enrico Pontelli joined New Mexico State University in 1997, where he is currently Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Computer Science Department. He is also serving as Director of the Knowledge representation, Logic, and Advanced Programming laboratory and Associate Director of the CREST Center for Research Excellence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He has served as Program Chair of ASSETS in 2005 and as General Chair of ASSETS 2007. His research expertise spans the areas of assistive technologies, knowledge representation, bioinformatics and high-performance computing. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Newsletter of the Association for Logic Programming, and serves on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. His research on accessibility has been funded by NSF and the Department of Education.

Secretary/Treasurer

Shari Trewin

Institution:

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

E-mail:

treasurer_sigaccess@acm.org

Biography:

Shari Trewin is General Chair of the Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS 2009), and served as Program Chair of the ASSETS 2007 conference. She is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing and serves as an accessibility reviewer for several international conferences and journals. She is a researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center with interests in input, cognitive support tools, ageing and technology use, and accessibility in virtual worlds.

Past Chair

Vicki Hanson

Institution:

University of Dundee, UK

Phone:

+44 (0)138 238 6510

Biography:

Vicki Hanson is the previous Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Accessibility (SIGACCESS) and has chaired their ASSETS’02 conference on Assistive Technologies. She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (with Andrew Sears), Associate Editor for Accessibility of ACM Transactions on the Web and has served as guest editor for several Special Issues on accessibility topics for journals. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was named ACM Fellow in 2004 for her contributions to computing technologies for people with disabilities. She received the ACM SIGCHI 2008 Social Impact Award for her work.

Newsletter Editor

Sri Kurniawan

Institution:

University of California Santa Cruz, USA

E-mail:

editors_sigaccess@acm.org

Biography:

Sri Kurniawan’s research focuses on the design and evaluation of interactive systems that help people with special needs, including older persons and people with disabilities, and more recently children. She is Treasurer and Registration Chair for ASSETS 2009. Sri Kurniawan has also served on numerous other organising committees of these and other conferences such as the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction and The IASTED International Conference on Assistive Technologies.

Information Director

Darren Lunn

Institution:

The University of Manchester, UK

Phone:

+44 (0)161 275 6239

E-mail:

infodir_sigaccess@acm.org

Biography:

Darren Lunn is a researcher at the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science. His research centres around hypermedia and the Web with a current focus on how the Web can be made more accessible to everybody, including those with disabilities and the elderly. Darren Lunn has been on the organising committees of Hypertext 2007 and ASSETS 2008 and is the editor of SIGWEB Quarterly, the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web’s newsletter.

Executive Committee

The SIGACCESS Executive Committee comprises the officers, the Past Chair, the Editor of the SIGACCESS Newsletter, and three appointed members-at-large. No person may hold two positions on the Executive Committee.

Officers:

Chair: Andrew Sears

Vice Chair: Enrico Pontelli

Secretary/Treasurer: Shari Trewin

Past Chair:

Vicki Hanson

Newsletter Editor:

Sri Kurniawan

Members-at-Large:

Hesham Kamel

Clayton Lewis

Gerhard Weber

Program Director

Irene Frawley

Institution:

The Association of Computing Machinery

Phone:

+1 212 626 0605

E-mail:

frawley@hq.acm.org