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Volume 2, Issue 4 (June 2010) of TACCESS Available Online

Volume 2, Issue 4 of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing is now available in the ACM Digital Library.

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  1. ITHACA: An Open Source Framework for Building Component-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication Applications
    Alexandros Pino and Georgios Kouroupetroglou
  2. Towards A Universally Usable Human Interaction Proof: Evaluation of Task Completion Strategies
    Graig Sauer, Jonathan Lazar, Harry Hochheiser, and Jinjuan Feng
  3. Assessing Fit of Nontraditional Assistive Technologies
    Adriane B. Randolph and Melody M. Moore Jackson

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Posted On: Monday, June 21, 2010

Volume 2, Issue 3 (March 2010) of TACCESS Available Online

Volume 2, Issue 3 of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing is now available. This issue includes two articles. The first explores the design of auditory graphs while the second addresses computer use by children with Down Syndrome and is now available in the ACM Digital Library.

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  1. Universal Design of Auditory Graphs: A Comparison of Sonification Mappings for Visually Impaired and Sighted Listeners
    B. N. Walker and L. M. Mauney
  2. Computer Usage by Children with Down Syndrome: Challenges and Future Research
    Jinjuan Feng, Jonathan Lazar, Libby Kumin and Ant Ozok

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Posted On: Thursday, March 11, 2010

Volume 2 , Issue 2 (June 2009) of TACCESS Available Online

Volume 2, Issue 2 of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing is now available. This edition is a Special Issue from the ASSETS 2008 Conference and can be accessed in the ACM Digital Library.

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  1. Guest Editorial
    Armando Barreto and Torsten Felzer
  2. A3: HCI Coding Guideline for Research Using Video Annotation to Assess Behavior of Nonverbal Subjects with Computer-Based Intervention
    Joshua Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle, Laura Dethorne and Mary-Kelsey Coletto
  3. A Linguistically Motivated Model for Speed and Pausing in Animations of American Sign Language
    Matt Huenerfauth
  4. The Development and Evaluation of Performance-Based Functional Assessment: A Methodology for the Measurement of Physical Capabilities
    Kathleen J. Price and Andrew Sears
  5. Exploring Visual and Motor Accessibility in Navigating a Virtual World
    Shari Trewin, Mark Laff, Vicki Hanson and Anna Cavender

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Posted On: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Volume 2 , Issue 1 (May 2009) of TACCESS Available Online

Volume 2, Issue 1 of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing is now available. This edition is a Special Issue on Aging and Information Technology and can be accessed in the ACM Digital Library.

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  1. Introduction to the Special Issue on Aging and Information Technology
    Sara J. Czaja, Peter Gregor and Vicki L. Hanson
  2. Being Old Doesn’t Mean Acting Old: How Older Users Interact with Spoken Dialog Systems
    Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Georgila, Johanna D. Moore and Sarah E. MacPherson
  3. Exploring Methods to Improve Pen-Based Menu Selection for Younger and Older Adults
    Karyn Moffatt and Joanna McGrenere
  4. Video Modeling for Training Older Adults to Use New Technologies
    Doreen Struve and Hartmut Wandke
  5. Disability, Age, and Informational Privacy Attitudes in Quality of Life Technology Applications: Results from a National Web Survey
    Scott Beach, Richard Schulz, Julie Downs, Judith Matthews, Bruce Barron and Katherine Seelman

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Posted On: Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Volume 1 , Issue 3 (February 2009) of TACCESS Available Online

Volume 1 , Issue 3 (February 2009) of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing is now available. The edition can be accessed in the ACM Digital Library

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to the Special Issue on AAC
    Kathleen F. McCoy and Annalu Waller
  2. Conception and Experimentation of a Communication Device with Adaptive Scanning
    Souhir Ghedira, Pierre Pino and Guy Bourhis
  3. The Effect of Voice Output on AAC-Supported Conversations of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease
    Melanie Fried-Oken, Charity Rowland, Glory Baker, Mayling Dixon, Carolyn Mills, Darlene Schultz and Barry Oken
  4. Evaluating the STANDUP Pun Generating Software with Children with Cerebral Palsy
    Annalu Waller, Rolf Black, David A. O’Mara, Helen Pain, Graeme Ritchie and Ruli Manurung
  5. User Interaction with Word Prediction: The Effects of Prediction Quality
    Keith Trnka, John McCaw, Debra Yarrington, Kathleen F. McCoy and Christopher Pennington

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Posted On: Tuesday, March 03, 2009

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  1. Registration and Hotel Reservation for the ASSETS 2010 Conference is Now Open
  2. June 2010 SIGACCESS Newsletter Now Available
  3. Workshop on Accessible Electronic Health Records
  4. Volume 2, Issue 4 (June 2010) of TACCESS Available Online
  5. 2010 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility
  6. Accessibility Postdoc at IS Department, Interactive Systems Research Center, UMBC
  7. ASSETS 2010 Call For Posters, Demos, Student Research Competition, and Doctoral Consortium
  8. Workshop on Accessible Search Systems
  9. Second ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility - Call for Nominations
  10. Volume 2, Issue 3 (March 2010) of TACCESS Available Online
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