[ecrea] INTERACT 2013 Workshop on Rethinking Universal Accessibility - deadline: 20-May

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 Workshop on  Rethinking Universal Accessibility:
 A broader approach considering the digital gap

 http://sipt07.si.ehu.es/WS/RethinkingUA/

 Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Sep 2013

 In conjunction with INTERACT 2013, 2-6 Sep 2013
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Submission deadline: 20 May 2013

Submission types:
- position papers (four pages)
- regular papers (eight pages)

Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsrua2013

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BACKGROUND

Universal Accessibility aims at including all people with disabilities 
in the target population for user-centered design. It is usually focused 
on the needs of people with disabilities, frequently including elderly 
people. Current advancements in the Design for all concept may require 
complex equipment, advanced network environments, or computer training. 
Therefore, these products or services may fall out the access of many 
people with disabilities because economical, technological or formative 
restric-tions. This is a frequent situation in developing countries, but 
it is becoming common also in developed countries where poverty and 
emigration are frequently associated with barriers to access to 
assistive technologies and services.

This Workshop aims at rethinking the concept of Universal Accessibility 
in order to find ways to include all excluded people with disabilities.
It is organized on behalf of the IFIP WG 13.3 HCI and Disability for HCI 
for academics, designers, managers, etc., interested in creating 
methodologies, tools and products for a wider market, considering ethic 
and social requirements.

Thus, the main objective of this workshop is to discuss the possibility 
of broadening the Universal Accessibility concept to include 
geopolitical and socio-economical circumstances.

Experiences in fighting the Digital Gap will especially be welcome.

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SUBMISSIONS

This one-day workshop is open to researchers and practitioners with 
experience or interest in Universal Accessiblity. Submissions will be 
selected based on relevance to the workshop topics, on originality, and 
on insightfulness.

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Topics:

This workshop will focus on theoretical and practical work on the impact 
of economical, technological, social, political, etc., issues in 
universal accessibility. Real experiences in fighting info-exclusion 
will be particularly welcome. Authors of submissions should carefully 
explain how the work and results presented contribute to enhance and 
broaden the Universal Access concept.

- Can the Universal Accessibility concept be extended in order to 
include people with disabilities also affected by other barriers such as 
poverty, illiteracy, lack of access to advanced technology, etc.?
- Is it possible to create accessibility guidelines that also consider 
affordable devices, deprecated technology, cultural issues, and illiteracy?
- Is it possible to separate the accessibility for people with 
disabilities to the accessibility of the rest of the population?

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Submission Types:

Two types of contributions are expected:

- Position papers (four pages), containing opinions and proposals to be 
discussed at the workshop
- Regular papers (eight pages), presenting results of research 
activities fighting infoexclusion due to socio-economical or 
geopolitical reasons, affecting people with disabilities

All submissions should follow the LNCS format, whose instructions are 
available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Authors should submit their work via EasyChair, at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsrua2013

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Publication:

Accepted regular papers will be invited to submit an extension to 
Springer's Universal Access in the Information Society journal for a 
Special Issue on Rethinking Universal Accessibility.
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IMPORTANT DATES

May  20th 2013. Submission deadline
May  26th 2013. Notification to authors
Jun   1st 2013. Participants registration deadline
Jun  26th 2013. Summision of the camera-ready version
Sep   2th 2013. Workshop
          2014. UAIS Special Issue publication

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ORGANISATION

- Julio Abascal, Computer Architecture and Technology Department. 
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
- Simone D. J. Barbosa, Informatics Department. PUC-Rio, Brazil.
- Andrew Dearden, is a Reader in e-SocialAction within the Communication 
& Computing Research Centre. Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
- Anirudha Joshi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, India.
- Daniel Orwa Ochieng, School of Computing and Informatics in the 
University of Nairobi, Kenya.
- Gerhard Weber, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Chair of IFIP 
WG 13.3 HCI and disabilities.
- Panayiotis Zaphiris, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts. Cyprus 
University of Technology.

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WEBSITE AND CONTACT

Additional and updated information can be found at the workshop website, at:
http://sipt07.si.ehu.es/WS/RethinkingUA/


For further information, contact:
- Julio Abascal [julio*abascal at ehu*es] or
- Simone DJ Barbosa [simone at inf*puc-rio*br]
(where asterisk is dot)


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