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Track I Track II Track III Track IV

Track I

Time Slot G: 8:30 - 10:30

STS: Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technolgy (Chairs: Roberto Manduchi, UC Santa Cru, USA; James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA)

A Blind Guidance System for Street Crossings Based on Ultrasonic Sensors - Hashino, Satoshi

A Mobile Phone Application Enabling Visually Impaired Users to Find and Read Product Barcodes - Coughlan, James

A MODEL TO DEVELOP VIDEOGAMES FOR ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY  - Sánchez, Jaime

Camera Based Target Acquisition Augmented with Phosphene Sensations - Evreinova, Tatiana G.

Computer Vision-Based Door Detection for Accessibility of Unfamiliar Environments to Blind Persons - Tian, YingLi

Development and Installation of Programmable Light-emitting Braille Blocks - Kobayashi, Makoto

Time Slot H: 11:00 - 13:00

[CONTINUED] STS: Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technolgy

FLIPPS for the Blind - A New Device for Medium Distance Object Detection by Concerted Fingertip Stimulation - Bothe, Hans-Heinrich

Improving Computer Vision-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind Persons with Context Information - Tian, YingLi

Pedestrian Navigation System using Tone Gradient and Robotic GIS - IENAGA, Takafumi

Real-Time Walk Light Detection with a Mobile Phone - Coughlan, James

Speech Based Accessible GPS Navigation Application for the Blind  - Arató, András

Underestimated visual impairment needs innovative thinking around ICT and AT - Cyrus, Michael

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Track II

Time Slot G: 8:30 - 10:30

[CONTINUED] STS: How to Improve Text Input for Motor Impaired Users?

Qanti: A software tool for Quick Ambiguous Non-standard Text Input - Felzer, Torsten

Swype:  Continuous Motion Text Input for People with Mobility Impairments - Marsden, Randy

Text composing software for disabled people, using blink and motion detection - Söllner, Matthias

A Prototype Scanning System with an Ambiguous Keyboard and a Predictive Disambiguation Algorithm  - Miró Borrás, Julio

Time Slot H: 11:00 - 13:00

HCI and Rehabilitation for People with Motor Disabilities

A rehabilitation method with visual and haptic guidance for children with upper extremity disability  - Choi, Kup-Sze

CANCELING INTERFERENCE CAUSED BY TREMORS IN A JOYSTICK CONTROLLER: STUDY CASE IN A POWER WHEELCHAIR - Silva, Ludmila Correa de Alkmin

Developing Rehabilitation Robots for the Brain Injured - Gnanayutham, Paul

MarkerMouse: Mouse Cursor Control Using a Head-Mounted Marker - MacKenzie

SSVEP based Brain-Computer Interface for Robot Control - Oehlinger, Barbara

Using triaxial acceleration sensors as input devices for handicapped persons - Söllner, Matthias

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Track III

Time Slot G: 8:30 - 10:30

STS: Successful Service Provision (Chairs: Bill Powel, bodma enterprises, USA; Joachim Klaus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D)

An ICF based tool supporting Assistive Technology selection - Steel, Emily

Easy-to-use Social Network Service - Älli, Sami

ICT for Persons With Disabilities: Bridging the Digital Divide in Bangladesh - Hossain, Mehjabeen Khaled

Success through Exchange - Petz, Andrea

Time Slot H: 11:00 - 13:00

STS: Entertainment Software Accessibility (Chair: Dominique Archambault, UPMC, F)

A real-time network board game system using tactile and auditory senses for the visually impaired - Nagasaka, Daisuke

Accessibility of a Social Network Game - Ossmann, Roland

Making mainstream videogames more accessible: a pilot study applied to Buzz!TM Junior Monster Bluster for PlayStation - Besio, Serenella

User interface evaluation of serious games for students with intellectual disability - Sik Lanyi, Cecilia

Using Names and Location for Speaker Identification in Captioning - Vy, Quoc

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Track IV

Time Slot G: 8:30 - 10:30

STS: Usable Web Accessibility: Editing (Chairs: Shadi Abou-Zahra, W3C, A; Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C, USA)

Beyond a visuocentric way of a visual Web search clustering engine: The sonification of WhatsOnWeb - Mele, Maria Laura

Editing Web Presentations by Means of Dialogue - Bartek, Ludek

Fast Access to Web Pages with Finger Reading - Kanahori, Toshihiro

Integrating Semantic Web and Folksonomies to Improve E-learning Accessibility - Pontelli, Enrico

Merging Web's Accessibility and Usability by Patterns - Vieritz, Helmut

The evaluations of deletion-based method and mixing-based method for audio CAPTCHAs - Nishimoto, Takuya

Time Slot H: 11:00 - 13:00

[CONTINUED] STS: Usable Web Accessibility: Editing

Towards the convergence of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for e-Inclusion - Burzagli, Laura

STS: Usable Web Accessibility: Education and Motivation (Chairs: Shadi Abou-Zahra, W3C, A; Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C, USA)

Organizational motivations for web accessibility implementation - a case study - Leitner, Marie-Luise

Using collaborative learning to teach WCAG 2.0 - Martínez, Loïc

Web_Access: Education on Accessible Web Design - Miesenberger, Klaus

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