CWUAAT 2014 - 7th Cambridge Workshop on UA & AT

CWUAAT '14 is the seventh of a series of workshops started in 2002 that represent the inclusive design community. CWUAAT is a unique multi-disciplinary workshop, where designers, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, policymakers and user communities meet.
In the context of developing demographic changes leading to greater numbers of older people and people with disabilities, the general field of inclusive design research strives to relate the capabilities of the population to the design of products. Inclusive populations of older people contain a greater variation in sensory, cognitive and physical user capabilities. These variations may be co-occurring and rapidly changing leading to a demanding design environment. Inclusive Design Research involves developing methods, technologies, tools and guidance for supporting product designers and architects to design for the widest possible population for a given range of capabilities, within a contemporary social and economic context.
Recent research developments have addressed these issues in the context of: governance and policy; daily living activities; the workplace; the built environment, Interactive Digital TV and Mobile communications. Increasingly, a need has been identified for a multidisciplinary approach that reconciles the diverse and sometimes conflicting demands of Design for Ageing and Impairment, Usability and Accessibility and Universal Access. CWUAAT provides a platform for such a need.
We seek original research papers describing investigations within the following broad categories:
1. RECONCILING USABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSIVE DESIGN
2. DESIGNING INCLUSIVE ASSISTIVE AND REHABILITATION SYSTEMS
3. MEASURING PRODUCT DEMAND AND PEOPLES’ CAPABILITIES
4. DESIGNING COGNITIVE INTERACTION WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
5. DESIGNING INCLUSIVE SPACES: ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS
8. COLLABORATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY DESIGN FOR INCLUSION
9. DATA MINING AND VISUALISING INCLUSION: USER PROFILE DATA
10. LEGISLATION, STANDARDS AND POLICY IN INCLUSIVE DESIGN
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Registration
You may register on-line here. Please note the early registration ends on the 16 January 2014 and final registration date is 20 February 2014. (Early registration fee for academics is £520 and set registration fee for students is £400).
Registration fee includes conference publications, refreshments on Monday (for those attending the doctoral consortium), and refreshments, lunches and dinner (incl. drinks reception and gala dinner on Tuesday) on Tuesday and Wednesday, refreshements and lunch on Thursday.
Accommodation is paid separately. For those staying in Fitzwilliam, single en-suite is £76 per night and includes breakfast. Rooms are available from 24th until departure on 27th March, 2014. The following links offer information about other accommodation options in Cambridge:
http://www.visitcambridge.org/accommodation
http://www.cambridgerooms.co.uk/
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/
Fitzwilliam College is at Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG. If you have any questions about the registration, please email mjh94 -AT- eng.cam.ac.uk (Mari).
Proceedings
Accepted long papers will be published as a book by Springer-Verlag, UK.
Short papers will be published seperately in an official conference proceedings.
Selected long papers will appear in a special edition of the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal published by Springer-Verlag.