ASSETS 2009 happened just a few days ago, and it was once again a great showing of the exciting research happening at the intersection of computer science, human computer interaction, and access technology.
Some highlights (from my perspective, of course), were the best paper awards, who went to two really great papers. The best student paper (that I must admit I was a co-author on) was entitled "ClassInFocus: Enabling Improved Visual Attention Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" and was written by Anna Cavender, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Richard E. Ladner. It introduces a really great system for enabling deaf and hard of hearing students to combine multiple sources of information all on a single screen in the classroom, and some novel notification strategies to help them know what to pay attention to when.
The best paper award went to a great paper entitled "Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities", that came out of the IBM Tokyo Research Lab and was written by Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, and Chieko Asakawa. This paper highlights some introducing qualities of the Social Accessibility Framework that they've been developing and overviews their initial challenges and successes.
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Some highlights (from my perspective, of course), were the best paper awards, who went to two really great papers. The best student paper (that I must admit I was a co-author on) was entitled "ClassInFocus: Enabling Improved Visual Attention Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" and was written by Anna Cavender, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Richard E. Ladner. It introduces a really great system for enabling deaf and hard of hearing students to combine multiple sources of information all on a single screen in the classroom, and some novel notification strategies to help them know what to pay attention to when.
The best paper award went to a great paper entitled "Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities", that came out of the IBM Tokyo Research Lab and was written by Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, and Chieko Asakawa. This paper highlights some introducing qualities of the Social Accessibility Framework that they've been developing and overviews their initial challenges and successes.
