ICCHP’06 offers the opportunity to organise STSs to present a detailed and comprehensive view to specific topics. An introduction by the chair as a free publication in the proceedings will recognize these efforts. Special thematic sessions must be proposed not later than December 15, 2005.

Please note: Contributions to these STS have to be submitted via the standard conference submission page!

Special Thematic Sessions

Title	Chair	Photo
Assessment and profiling of cognitive, sensory, physical, and behavioral characteristics of the elderly and person with disabilities	Akira ICHIKAWA, Ph.D. Akira OKAMOTO, PH.D.
Assistive Homes	Gerhard NUSSBAUM
Mobile Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction, From haptic games interfaces to tangible wheelchair input devices: New Perspectives for people with special needs	Andreas HOLZINGER Alexander K. NISCHELWITZER
Amodal Signals and Patterns: the Next Step in Integration of the Device and the User	Grigori EVREINOV
Accessible Tourism	Franz PÜHRETMAIR
Materials for Teaching Accessibility	Julio ABASCAL Gerhard WEBER
Automatic and manual evaluation of websites	Helen PETRIE Gerhard WEBER
Accessible Content Processing	David CROMBIE
Entertainment software accessibility	Dominique ARCHAMBAULT
Assistive Technologies to foster independence for the elderly and people with cognitive disabilities	Erwin FUGGER
Accessibility: an element in Web Quality Management	Dominique BURGER Charmaine Mueller IVERSEN
The History of Assistive Technology	Paul BLENKHORN
Assistive Technology for Specific Learning Difficulties	Gareth EVANS
Are Libraries for the Blind Necessary? Or, Computers Help People who Help Themselves	Robert MARTINENGO
The hearing process and how to substitute for disorders	Hans-Heinrich BOTHE
Teaching math to the blind	Arthur KARSHMER