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[ecrea] CFP Web for All Conference 2015

Sat Jan 03 11:21:20 GMT 2015







    W4A’15 (www.w4a.info <http://www.w4a.info>) focuses on improving
    accessibility of the Web, Mobiles, and Wearables for people with
    and WITHOUT disabilities. The conference offers:

    1) Full coverage IBM travel award to students with physical
    disabilities;
    2) $1,250 to PhD students participating in Google’s Doctoral
    Consortium;
    3) $2,000 and $1,000 to the best full and short papers respectively.

    The deadline is approaching fast (January 23), the full CFP follows.

    Happy New Year!
    Yevgen Borodin, PhD

    Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
    Stony Brook University, NY, USA

    CEO, Charmtech Labs LLC (www.captivoice.com
    <http://www.captivoice.com>)
    “Listen to Anything You Want to Read”
    ---
    We welcome you to submit your best work on improving accessibility
    of the Web, Mobiles, and Wearables for people with and without
    disabilities to the International Web for All Conference (W4A’15),
    conveniently co-located with WWW’15 and MobiSys’15.

    W4A’15 (www.w4a.info <http://www.w4a.info>) will take place in
    Florence, Italy (May 18-20):
    - Intuit will award $2,000 and $1,000 to the best technical and
    communication papers
    - The Paciello Group will award the winners of the Accessibility
    Challenge
    - ABILITY Magazine will highlight the winners of awards in a
    special editorial
    - IBM will provide travel grants to both grad and undergrad
    students with disabilities
    - Google will sponsor 6 PhD students to participate in the
    Doctoral Student Consortium
    - Submission deadlines: Jan 23rd, Notifications: March 4th

    As you know, devices are getting smaller, and more of them are now
    wearable: smart glasses, smart watches, and smart clothing are all
    working their way into our lives and onto our bodies. These
    devices are online, web-accessible, and increasingly
    interconnected. As with many technologies that have come before,
    wearable devices present incredible opportunities for improving
    accessibility for people with and without disabilities, but also
    present accessibility challenges in ensuring that people are able
    to equally benefit from them regardless of disability, context or
    situation. Acknowledging the importance of this topic, the theme
    of the 12th International Web for All Conference is “The Wearable
    Web”.

    Don’t be deterred by the theme; we invite your best work on
    improving and understanding access for people across the
    accessibility continuum. Papers are expected to detail technical
    solutions and scientific insights into Web, Mobile, and Wearable
    technologies addressing diverse user needs. Areas of interest
    include but are not limited to the following: age, cognition,
    culture, education, emotions, dexterity, disability, diversity,
    health, hearing, income, infrastructure, language, learning,
    literacy, mobility, situation, society, and vision.

    The keynote speech on the "Sense and sensibility: smartphones and
    wearable technologies to support seniors" will be delivered by
    Lorenzo Chiari who is a Professor and the Vice-Director of the
    Health Sciences and Technologies - Interdepartmental Center for
    Industrial Research at the University of Bologna. On the close of
    the 1st day, join us for the evening of wine, food, and live music
    – with a Classical performance by Lia Martirosyan. The “William
    Laughborough” after-dinner talk "Riches Beyond Measure: A New
    Frontier in Web Accessibility" will be given by Kevin Carey, the
    Chair of the Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK.

    Don’t come just for W4A’15 – stay for the entire week! W4A is
    conveniently co-located with WWW’15 and MobiSys’15 conferences.
    MobiSys’15 is the top research conference dealing with all aspects
    of mobile systems: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/cfp.php.
    And WWW’15 (http://www.www2015.it/) is the best and the biggest
    Web research conference attended by famous Web researchers and
    practitioners, such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the
    Web). Among other events, we will hold a joint WWW/W4A panel
    session devoted to the “Wearable Web” theme.


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