*CHI'2018 Workshop - Inclusive Education Technologies: Emerging
Opportunities for People with Visual Impairments*

*Call for Participation*

*Key Dates *
    •    Submission deadline: 26th of Jan. 2018
    •    Notification of acceptance: 22nd of Feb. 2018
    •    Workshop date and location: Saturday 21st of April, Montréal,
Canada

*Web: *www.inclusiveeducation.tech

*Aims and scope*
Technology has become central to many activities of learning, ranging from
its use in classroom education to work training, mastering a new hobby, or
acquiring new skills of living. But people with specific accessibility
needs, such as low or no vision, can often be excluded from this use. This
CHI'2018 workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
to share knowledge into methods and tools in the areas of education and
visual impairment and to explore and develop future directions for the next
generation design of inclusive and effective education technologies. The
one-day workshop will combine submissions presentations with focus groups
and hands-on activities exploring key questions including, but not limited
to, the following:

    •    How to better leverage the potential of interaction techniques to
maximise educational benefits?
    •    How to go beyond assistive technologies that only focus on
mitigating a functional limitation?
    •    How to provide specialised teachers with tools and methods that
are easy to adapt to the topic and audience?
    •    How to best evaluate appropriate methods to help evaluate impact
on teaching and learning practices?

In particular, we aim to discuss questions of interest from a variety of
perspectives and themes, including:

    •    Novel interaction techniques
    •    Individual cognition and perception
    •    Collaborative learning and inclusion
    •    Design Education and Training
    •    Evaluation

*How to participate*
We invite contributions in one or more of our themes on education and
visual impairment. Participants should submit 2-4 page position papers in
the CHI extended abstracts format accompanied by a bio that highlights
research related to the workshop themes. Submissions should be sent as PDF
attachments by email to: [log in to unmask]

Position papers will be reviewed by the organising committee based on
relevance to the workshop and the potential for contributing to
discussions. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. At least
one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and all
participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day
of the conference.

*Outcomes *
We will summarise the discussions and the range of research presented at
the workshop in a report to be published in an HCI journal or a magazine
article (e.g., ACM Interaction). We will release a report in multiple
formats and invite blog contributions on the subject to foster a community
around these issues, themes and directions that emerge from the workshop.
We have also built-in time during the workshop for discussing and planning
further routes for dissemination and future joint work.

*Workshop organisers*
    •    Oussama Metatla, University of Bristol, UK
    •    Marcos Serrano, University of Toulouse, France
    •    Christophe Jouffrais, CNRS, University of Toulouse, France
    •    Anja Thieme, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
    •    Shaun Kane, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
    •    Stacy Branham, University of Maryland, USA
    •    Émiline Brulé, Telecom ParisTech, France
    •    Cynthia L. Bennett, University of Washington, USA

*Program Committee*
    •    Laura Benton, University College London, UK
    •    Anke Brock, ENAC Toulouse, France
    •    Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL, Switzerland
    •    Emilie Giles, Open University, UK
    •    Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisbon
    •    Alex Hadwen-Bennett, Kings College London, UK
    •    Jonathan Lazar, Towson University, USA
    •    Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden
    •    Marianna Obrist, University of Sussex, UK
    •    Michael Proulx, University of Bath, UK
    •    Sue Sentence, King’s College London, UK
    •    Danae Stanton Fraser, University of Bath, UK
    •    Tony Stockman, Queen Mary University, UK
    •    Janet van der Linden, Open University, UK

*Contact*
Web: http://www.inclusiveeducation.tech
Email: [log in to unmask]
End of CFP.


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