FAPC 2012 - International Workshop on Frontiers in Accessibility for Pervasive Computing

Frontiers in Accessibility for Pervasive Computing
Website: http://pervasive-accessibility.shorturl.com/
The primary objective of the workshop is to provide a venue for sharing and discussing frontier technologies and evaluation methodologies for accessibility in pervasive computing. We propose, but are not limited to, two research questions regarding the interplay between pervasive computing and accessibility. First, we aim to determine what it means for a pervasive system to be accessible and how can we measure it. Second, we propose to discuss how pervasive computing systems can provide accessibility support for everyday tasks that would otherwise be impossible or very difficult to manage independently. We want to encourage the workshop's participants to discuss lessons learned from previous design successes and failures, raise methodological issues in designing special evaluations given the nature of pervasive computing and of the target user populations, and propose future research questions and challenges.
Organisers: Mario Romero, Jeff Bigham, Tiago Guerreiro, Shaun Kane, Sergio Mascetti, Caleb Southern, Konstantinos Votis and Gottfried Zimmermann