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We invite you to participate in the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS
Conference on Computers and Accessibility Conference (ASSETS 2009).
Registration is open, and the early registration deadline is August 22,
2009.
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Eleventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and
Accessibility
October 26-28, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
People with disabilities can use Computer and Information Technologies
to overcome barriers encountered in day-to-day life, and to participate
more fully in society. The ASSETS series of conferences explores the
potential of Computer and Information Technologies to support and
include individuals with disabilities, and those around them. ASSETS is
the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and
use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies by people
with disabilities.
Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its
SIGACCESS Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, ASSETS
includes formal paper sessions, demonstrations, posters, a doctoral
consortium, and a student research competition.
The single track and friendly atmosphere make ASSETS the ideal venue to
meet researchers, practitioners, developers and policymakers to exchange
ideas, share information, and make new contacts.
Keynote Speaker
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This year's keynote speaker will be Professor Rory A Cooper, Ph.D. of
the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Cooper has a distinguished
career in rehabilitation engineering, and is a popular speaker.
Topics
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High quality, original submissions will cover topics relevant to
computers and accessibility. This includes the use of technology by and
in support of:
* Individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments,
* Individuals with motor impairments,
* Individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments,
* Individuals with multiple impairments,
* Older adults
Researchers and practitioners will present novel ideas, designs,
techniques, systems, evaluations, scientific investigations,
methodologies, social issues or policy issues relating to:
* assistive technologies that improve day-to-day life
* assistive technologies that improve access to mainstream Computer and
* Information Technologies
* innovative use of mainstream technologies to overcome access barriers
* accessibility and usability of mainstream technologies
* identification of barriers to technology access that are not addressed
* by existing research
Registration Information
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The registration fees for ASSETS 2009 are as follows:
Early Registration (before August 22, 2009)
* ACM Member $500 USD
* SIGACCESS Member $580 USD
* Non-Member $600 USD
* Student $350 USD
Regular Registration (after August 22, 2009)
* ACM Member $600 USD
* SIGACCESS Member $680 USD
* Non-Member $700 USD
* Student $400 USD
The deadline for early registration is August 22, 2009. All prices are
in US Dollars (USD).
Please visit our website for online registration:
http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/
ASSETS 2009 COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
Shari Trewin (IBM Research, USA)
Treasurer & Registration Chair:
Sri Kurniawan (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Program Chair:
Kathleen F. McCoy (University of Delaware, USA)
Associate Chair for Posters and Demos:
Harriet Fell (Northeastern University, USA)
Mentor Chair:
Alistair Edwards (University of York, UK)
Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington, USA)
Student Research Competition Chair:
Faustina Hwang (University of Reading, UK)
Local Arrangements Chair:
Joshua Hailpern (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Publicity Chair:
Karyn Moffatt (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Web Chair:
Jeffrey Bigham (University of Washington, USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Julio Abascal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Ray Adams, University of Middlesex, UK
John Arnott, University of Dundee, UK
Chieko Asakawa, IBM Research, Japan
Melanie Baljko, York University, Canada
Kenneth E. Barner, University of Delaware, USA
Jeffrey P. Bigham, University of Washington, USA
John Black, Arizona State University, USA
Cathy Bodine, University of Colorado Denver, USA
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Yevgen Borodin Stony Brook University, USA
Noelle Carbonell, University Henri Poincare, LORIA, France
Sara Czaja, University of Miami, USA
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Alistair D.N. Edwards, University of York, UK
Torsten Felzer, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Towson University, USA
Peter Gregor, University of Dundee, UK
Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee, UK
Simon Harper, University of Manchester, UK
Terri Hedgepeth, Arizona State University, USA
Matt Huenerfauth, City University of New York, USA
Sri Kurniawan, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Jonathan Lazar, Towson University, USA
Laura Leventhal, Bowling Green State University, USA
Clayton Lewis, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Klaus Miesenberger, University of Linz, Austria
Karyn Moffatt, University of British Columbia, Canada
Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA
Jaime Sanchez, University of Chile, Chile
Andrew Sears, UMBC, USA
Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH ICS, Greece
Hironobu Takagi, IBM Research, Japan
Marilyn Tremaine, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Annalu Waller, University of Dundee, UK
Takayuki Watanabe, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan
Gerhard Weber, Multimedia Campus Kiel, Germany
Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK
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