This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2006. The 193 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006
Presents 193 revised contributions reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book
Shows how various computer science can help people with disabilities and impairment
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People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Content Processing.- HODDER A Fully Automatic Braille Note Production System.- Maps Sonification System Using Digitiser for Visually Impaired Children.- Document Processing for Accessibility: Standards and Initiatives.- Expressing Emotions Using Animated Text Captions.- Schulbuch Barrierefrei (Accessible School Books) Co-operation Between Publishers and Service Providers in Austria.- Modelling Accessibility Constraints.- Scientific PDF Document Reader with Simple Interface for Visually Impaired People.- English Oblique Listening System Rapid Listening System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Its Evaluation.- Creating Pictures by Dialogue.- Automatic Annotation of Geographic Maps.- Towards the Use of Ontologies for Improving User Interaction for People with Special Needs.- A Model for Accessible Information Networks Findings of the EUAIN Project.- Making the Past a Thing of the Future: Automated Workflow for the Conversion of Printed Items into Fully Structured Digital Objects Based on Common Open Metadata Standards.- Accessible Navigation of Rich Media: Exposing Structure, Content and Controls in the Mobile User Interface.- The Essential Role of Libraries Serving Persons Who Are Blind and Print Disabled in the Information Age.- People with Disabilities: Web Accessibility.- Browsing Web Based Documents Through an Alternative Tree Interface: The WebTree Browser.- Web Pages for Blind People Generating Web-Based Presentations by Means of Dialogue.- Architecture for Personal Web Accessibility.- Dynamically Generated Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for Barrier-Free Web-Applications.- Designing a Web Page Considering the Interaction Characteristics of the Hard-of-Hearing.- Accessible Websites for People with Dementia: A Preliminary Investigation into Information Architecture.- People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Websites.- People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Web Sites.- Web Accessibility Testing: When the Method Is the Culprit.- Test Case Description Language (TCDL): Test Case Metadata for Conformance Evaluation.- The BenToWeb XHTML 1.0 Test Suite for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.- An Environment for Defining and Handling Guidelines for the Web.- Interpreting Results from Large Scale Automatic Evaluation of Web Accessibility.- Managing and Monitoring Web Site Accessibility.- Semi-automatic Evaluation of Web Accessibility with HERA 2.0.- Automatic Control of Simple Language in Web Pages.- Test Case Management Tools for Accessibility Testing.- Testing Web Navigation for All: An Agent-Based Approach.- University of Illinois Tools and Techniques for Functional Web Accessibility.- A Proposed Architecture for Large Scale Web Accessibility Assessment.- People with Disabilities: Quality of Web Accessibility.- People with Disabilities: Quality of Web Accessibility.- Towards Web Accessibility Certification: The Findings of the Support-EAM Project.- Raising the Expertise of Web Designers Through Training The Experience of BFWD Accessible Web Design (Barrierefreies Webdesign) in Austria.- The Role of Benchmarking in Concerted Actions to Increase Accessibility.- A Ubiquitous Social Community Portal Service for Social Networking with Convenient Accessibility.- Web Accessibility Conformity Assessment Implementation Alternatives for a Quality Mark in Austria.- Accessible Interfaces to Empower the User.- A GOMS Model for Keyboard Navigation in Web Pages and Web Applications.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Tourism.- People with Disabilities: Accessible Tourism Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Accessibility Add-on Box Enabling Barrier-Free Tourism Information Systems (TIS).- Development of a Mobile Tourist Information System for People with Functional Limitations: User Behaviour Concept and Specification of Content Requirements.- Objective Accessibility Assessment of Public Infrastructures.- BAIMInformation for People with Reduced Mobility in the Field of Public Transport.- Accessible Information Space to Promote Accessible Tourism.- People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All.- People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All.- Teaching Web Accessibility with Contramano and Hera.- Introducing Media Managers to Usability and Accessibility.- Evaluating the Length of Virtual Horizontal Bar Chart Columns Augmented with Wrench and Sound Feedback.- Assistec A University Course on Assistive Technologies.- People with Disabilities: Entertainment Software Accessibility.- People with Disabilities: Entertainment Software Accessibility.- Semi Automatic Generator of Tactile Video Games for Visually Impaired Children.- Making the Mainstream Accessible: What's in a Game?.- Access Invaders: Developing a Universally Accessible Action Game.- Internet and Accessible Entertainment.- Guidelines for the Development of Accessible Computer Games.- People with Disabilities: Human Computer Interface.- A Classification, Based on ICF, for Modelling Human Computer Interaction.- Evaluation of Reaction Forces During Human Computer Interaction for Optimization and Development A Pilot Research.- A User-Orientation Evaluation Framework: Assessing Accessibility Throughout the User Experience Lifecycle.- Basic Research of Input Support Device by Using Sympathetic Skin Response.- Unskilled Finger Key Pressing and Brain Coherence.- Customizing User Interfaces with Input Profiles.- Computerized Assessment Approach for Evaluating Computer Interaction Performance.- People with Disabilities: Assistive Homes and Environments.- People with Disabilities: Assistive Homes and Environments.- Prototyping and Evaluation of New Remote Controls for People with Visual Impairment.- Constructing Adaptive User Interface Through Semantic Descriptions.- A Proposal for a Home-Based Health Monitoring System for the Elderly or Disabled.- Helping People with ICT Device Control by Eye Gaze.- IRCS Infra Red Code System: Access to Infra Red Codes for Ambient and Assisted Living.- The DAT Project: A Smart Home Environment for People with Disabilities.- Selection by Visualization of Topological Layouts for Adapted Living Area Design.- Wireless Communicator for Patients in Intensive Care.- People with Disabilities: Service Delivery.- The Development and Application of the Assistive Devices Application System for Clients with Disabilities.- EASTIN: A Trans-national Information Network on Assistive Technologies.- Participation in Development of Computers Helping People.- Developing Pedagogical Multimedia Resources Targeting Children with Special Educational Needs.- People with Disabilities: Education and Training.- Accessibility Issues in Two Specifications for E-Learning Tests: IMS QTI 1.2 and IMS QTI 2.0.- Informatics Teachers and Their Competences in Inclusive Education.- ECDL bf: Equal Opportunities Through Equal Access to an ECDL E-Learning Solution.- Searching Knowledge CinemaSense as a Case Study in Collaborative Production of a WWW Service in Two Universities.- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Electronic Communication Aids.- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: Electro…