Front matter
273-282
Structured Access to Documents, Digital Talking Books, and Beyond: The DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher
81-90
eEurope — eAccessibility — User Participation Participation of People with Disabilities and Older People in the Information Society
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Christian Bühler
51-75
From Research to Business Improving the Take Up of Results of Research Projects
Introduction to the Workshop
Christian Bühler
403-417
Universal Access to Information Society Technologies: Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Constantine Stephanidis and Pier Luigi Emiliani
1-34
Accessibility and Usability of eCommerce Systems
Keith Gladstone, Cathy Rundle and Tara Alexander
129-149
Recommending Context-Sensitive and Process-Oriented Tourist Information to the Disabled The PALIO Case
Michael Pieper
235-248
Web Site Accessibility Auditing Tool for Visually Deficient Persons OCAWA
Denis Chêne and Michel Hoël
467-484
User-Centered Interface Design for Disabled and Elderly People: First Experiences with Designing a Patient Communication System (PACOSY)
Andreas Holzinger
485-497
The Disappearing Computer: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Disabled and Elderly People
Constantine Stephanidis
119-152
New Technologies and Services for Disabled and Elderly People in the Emerging Information Society
Pier Luigi Emiliani
115-169
A Strategy to Achieve the Accessibility of Public Web Sites
Sylvie Duchateau, Denis Boulay, Claudine Tchang-Ayo and Dominique Burger
27-49
Accessibility and Affordance for Voice Interactive Systems with the VoiceXML Technology
Régis Privat, Nadine Vigouroux, Philippe Truillet and Bernard Oriola
64-67
Computer and Inclusive Education
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Ewald Feyerer
187-206
National Information and Communication Technology Policies — Their Impact upon the Use of ICT in Special Needs Education (SNE)
Amanda Watkins and Harald Weber
449-463
EUN Virtual School Special Needs Education
Walter Rainwald and Virtual School Special Needs Editing Team
305-318
Tutorial Systems to Teach Standard Applications to the Learning Disabled
Michael Pieper
19-31
The Vickie Project
Visually Impaired Children Kit for Inclusive Education
Dominique Archambault and Dominique Burger
77-96
Using Adaptive Hypermedia to Evaluate Basic Arithmetic Skills in Special Education
Jaakko Kurhila and Hanna Varjola
297-334
ICT and Assistive Technology in Teachers Education and Training
Ewald Feyerer, Klaus Miesenberger and David Wohlhart
101-108
Bridging the Information Gap between IST and SEN — A Practical Approach on European Level
Jørgen Greve and Harald Weber
3-25
Evaluational Study: Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents
Yehya Mohamad, S. Hammer, F. Haverkamp, M. Nöker and H. Tebarth
181-199
Usage of Modern Technologies — A Chance for People with Special Needs?! — Pedagogically Relevant Criteria for the Review of Educational Software Exemplified by “
Step by Step
3”
Barbara Prazak and Mathilde Niehaus
117-127
Social Innovation in the Information Society — Take It Easy
Cordula Edler
249-261
ODL:Inclusive — Improving Inclusive Teaching through Online Training
David Wohlhart
255-271
Accessible E-learning: Infrastructure and Content
Norman Coombs
136-139
Addizionario: Words in Your Pocket
Giovanna Turrini, Laura Cignoni and Alessandro Paccosi
99-106
Virtual Travel Training for People with Learning Disabilities Accessing Employment Including the Introduction to the Special Thematic Session “Virtual Reality”
N. Shopland, J. Lewis, D. J. Brown and H. M. Powell
185-191
Assessing Virtual Reality as a Tool for Support Imagination
F. Alcantud, G. Herrera, G. Labajo, I. Dolz and C. Gayá, et al.
145-146
Literacy and Numeracy Edutainment Packages for Disaffected Young Learners
D. J. Brown, M. Yazdanparast, J. Lewis, N. Shopland and H. M. Powell
147-149
Control of Virtual Environments for People with Intellectual Disabilities
P. J. Standen, S. Battersby and T. L. Lannen
357-372
Online Gardening to Promote Social Inclusion
S. J. Battersby, N. Kelly, D. J. Brown and H. M. Powell
271-306
Selective Phoneme Spotting for Realization of an /s, z, C, t/ Transposer
D. Bauer, A. Plinge and M. Finke
107-114
A Multimedia Based Software for Non-Japanese to Learn Japanese Sign Language
Flavio Oliveira, Iwao Kobayashi and Mitsumasa Sugawara
263-271
The User Interface Design for the Sign Language Translator in a Remote Sign Language Interpretation System
Hiroki Minagawa, Ichiro Naito, Nobuko Kato, Hiroshi Murakami and Yasushi Ishihara
111-127
The See-through Head Mount Display as the Information Offering Device for the Hearing Impaired Students
Tomoyuki Nishioka
281-301
Digital Speech Signal Processing to Compensate Severe Sensory Hearing Deficits: The /s, z, C, t/ Transposer Module in Simulation - An Overview and Examples
D. Bauer, A. Plinge and M. Finke
170-172
Computers for the Development of Young Disabled Children
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Dominique Archambault
173-180
Multimedia Games for Visually Impaired Children
Aurélie Buaud, Harry Svensson, Dominique Archambault and Dominique Burger
181-188
Technical Assistance for Motor- and Multiple Disabled Children — Some Long Term Experiences
Paul Panek, Christian Beck, Stefan Mina, Gottfried Seisenbacher and Wolfgang L. Zagler
379-396
The Design of an Adaptive Web Browser for Young Children with Reading Difficulties
Chi Nung Chu, Tien Yu Li and Ming Chung Chen
191-192
Can All Young Disabled Children Play at the Computer?
Anita Hildén and Jenny Hammarlund
171-193
TL a Language to Create Games for Visually Impaired Children
Antoine Dutot, Damien Olivier and Dominique Archambault
19-29
Power Assist System HAL-3 for Gait Disorder Person
Hiroaki Kawamoto and Yoshiyuki Sankai
195-214
Computer Access Assessment for Persons with Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technology Interventions
Ting-Fang Wu, Ling-Fu Meng, Hwa-Pey Wang, Wu-Tien Wu and Tien-Yu Li
91-99
A Proposal of Effective Motion Learning Method Using Sensory Feedback for Walk-Disabled People
Junji Ohyama and Yoshiyuki Sankai
241-276
Control Method of Walking Speed and Step Length for Hybrid Assistive Leg
Masako Nozawa and Yoshiyuki Sankai
228-235
The Development of Gait Training System for Computer-Aided Rehabilitation
Hidetaka Ikeuchi, Satoshi Arakane, Kengo Ohnishi, Keiji Imado and Yukio Saito, et al.
291-308
Accessing Internet Courses by Eye Movement and Head Movement
James Gips, Philip A. DiMattia, Marialice Curran, Debra Lees and Maureen Gates
59-75
The Program for Improving the Working Interfaces and Increasing the Work Competencies of People with Severe Physical Disabilities: The Evaluation, Design, and Training of the Adaptive Computer Devices
Tien-yu Li, Ling-Fu Meng, Chien-Huey Sophie Chang, Ming-Chung Chen and Chi-Nung Chu, et al.
373-386
Matching Typing Persons and Intelligent Interfaces
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Wolfgang L. Zagler
165-176
FASTY — A Multi-lingual Approach to Text Prediction
Johannes Matiasek, Marco Baroni and Harald Trost
359-371
Informing Flexible Abbreviation Expansion for Users with Motor Disabilities
Tim Willis, Helen Pain, Shari Trewin and Stephen Clark
11-24
Cyclic Input of Characters through a Single Button Manipulation
Grigori Evreinov and Roope Raisamo
151-179
Developing of Predictive Communication System for the Physically Disabled People
Vidas Lauruska and Tomas Musteikis
231-243
Teaching Adolescents with Disabilities to Learn Chinese Keyboarding by Using Multimedia Computer Assisted Input Method Learning System
Ming-Chung Chen, Hwa-Pey Wang and Tien-Yu Li
337-345
Accelerating Assessment with Self-Optimizing Devices
Shari Trewin, Patti Slobogin and M. G. Power
71-80
A Proposal of an Evaluation Framework for Writing Assistance Systems: Application to VITIPI
Philippe Boissiére and Daniel Dours
31-45
Individually Assisted Text Entry with Situational and Contextual Prediction
Dirk Clemens, Helmut Heck, Michael Kühn, Olaf Perlick and Frank Reins
33-57
Accessible Digital Media
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Deborah I. Fels
121-129
Methods for Inclusion: Employing Think Aloud Protocol with Individuals Who Are Deaf
Vera Roberts and Deborah Fels
97-110
Emotive Captioning in a Digital World
Charles Silverman and Deborah I. Fels
289-303
Spoken Subtitles: Making Subtitled TV Programmes Accessible
Maarten Verboom, David Crombie, Evelien Dijk and Mildred Theunisz
303-307
Accessible Digital Media
Deborah I. Fels
97-109
Electronic and Virtual Libraries: Access for Print Disabled People
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Jan Engelen and Dominique Burger
217-233
Semantically Rich Markup, Should You Be Agnostic in Your Choice of a Vocabulary
George Kerscher
316-320
DZB - A German Library for the Blind Goes Digital
Thomas Kahlisch
321-328
Harmonisation of the Copyright Law throughout the European Union — A Challenge for All Print Disabled People
Ruth Hammerschmid, Klaus Miesenberger and Bernhard Stöger
243-269
A Distributed Document Oriented Architecture for Rendering Services to Visually Impaired Students
Claude Moulin, Sylvain Giroux, Dominique Archambault, Davide Carboni and Dominique Burger
309-331
ABA’s Virtual Library Services for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Karim Taha and Lori Stefano Pertucci
345-352
Libbraille: A Portable Library to Easily Access Braille Displays
Sébastien Sablé and Dominique Archambault
179-184
CYNTHIA: An HTML Browser for Visually Handicapped People
Mathieu Raynal and Mathieu Serrurier
165-177
A Secure Internet Service for Delivering Documents for the Blind
Benoit Guillon, Dominique Burger and Bruno Marmol
249-268
Virtual Libraries Initiatives with Usable Results for Print Disabled People
Marco Köttstorfer and Klaus Miesenberger
69-82
Unlocking Doors: Building an Accessible Online Information Node
David Crombie, Arne Leeman, Marian Oosting and Maarten Verboom
179-186
Using XML as a Reading Enabler for Visuallyss Impaired Persons
Bert Paepen and Jan Engelen
435-448
The Accessibility of Online Library Resources for People with Print Disabilities: Research and Strategies for Change
Axel Schmetzke
513-525
Quick Access to Dictionaries for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Brasseur Vincent, Mohamed Slimane, Nicole Vincent and Dominique Burger
123-158
Perspectives and Possibilities for the Automated Processing of Scientific Texts for Blind and Visually Impaired People
Gerhard Jaworek
1-23
Universal Usability Issues of Textual Information Structures, Commands, and Languages of Native Visually Challenged Users: An Inclusive Design Framework
Basawaraj Patil, Klaus Maetzel and Erich J. Neuhold
319-330
Accessible Interface Design: Adaptive Multimedia Information System (AMIS)
Marisa DeMeglio, Markku T. Hakkinen and Hiroshi Kawamura
151-163
Reading Multimedia Documents
Helen Petrie and Gerhard Weber
125-136
Comparison of Various Interface Modalities for a Locomotion Assistance Device
Yacine Bellik and René Farcy
3-26
Providing Help for Visually Impaired People’s Navigation in an Urban Environment Using GPS
Vivien Guillet, Beatrice Rumpler and Jean-Marie Pinon
67-118
New Trends and Developments in Computer and Internet Technology for Visually Impaired People: A Survey and Usefulness in the Arab Sub-region
AbdulMalik S. Al-Salman
445-447
Auditory Emotional Access to Visual Information
Harald Schwende
215-229
Auditory Sensation Aided Image Perception: Integration of Somesthetic Sense of Fingertip Position
Yoshihiko Nomura, Sayuri Nishihama, Tokuhiro Sugiura, Hirokazu Matsui and Norihiko Kato
333-342
A Novel Application to Aid Low Vision Computer Users
Luciano Silva and Olga Regina Pereira Bellon
315-336
Visually Impaired Persons Using Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
Martin Jung and Erdmuthe Meyer zu Bexten
421-434
Using MS Office Features as Low Vision Accessibility Tools
Deborah Gilden
111-124
Access to Mathematics by Blind Students
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Arthur I. Karshmer and Chris Bledsoe
477-485
Architecting an Auditory Browser for Navigating Mathematical Expressions
Arthur I. Karshmer, Gopal Gupta and Doug Gillan
77-81
REMathEx — Reader and Editor of the Mathematical Expressions for Blind Students
Pavel Gaura
47-63
Speaking Technical Documents: Using Prosody to Convey Textual and Mathematical Material
D. Fitzpatrick
207-212
Access by Blind Students and Professionals to Mainstream Math and Science
John A. Gardner
333-358
LATEX at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg — Experiences at the Institute for Visually Impaired Students
Erdmuthe Meyer zu Bexten and Martin Jung
159-177
Experience with Access to Mathematics for Blind Students in Slovakia
Martina Kobolkova and Peter Lecky
91-97
Infty Alpha Test Site
Toshihiro Kanahori and Masakazu Suzuki
65-81
Designing an AutoMouse to Promote Computer Accessibility for People with Severe Physical Impairments
Ming Chung Chen, Tien Yu Li, Chi Nung Chu, Ling Fu Meng and Chien-Huey Sophie Chang, et al.
105-122
Evaluation of Long Descriptions of Statistical Graphics for Blind and Low Vision Web Users
H. K. Ault, J. W. Deloge, R. W. Lapp, M. J. Morgan and J. R. Barnett
387-395
A Tactile Display System Equipped with a Pointing Device — MIMIZU
Makoto Kobayashi and Tetsuya Watanabe
261-274
Preparing Tactile Graphics for Traditional Braille Printers with
BrlGraphEditor
Mario Batusic and Franz Urban
47-67
TeDUB: A System for Presenting and Exploring Technical Drawings for Blind People
Helen Petrie, Christoph Schlieder, Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans and Alasdair King, et al.
153-180
Improvement of User Interface for Blind PC Users
Yutaka Shimizu, Masami Shinohara, Hideji Nagaoka and Yasushige Yonezawa
275-290
Haptic Perception of 2D Pictures and 3D Objects: Accurate Mental Representation as a Function of Visual Status
Helen Graupp, Keith Gladstone and Leanne Thompson
245-259
Microelectrical Mechanical Systems Actuator Array for Tactile Communication
Eniko T. Enikov, Kalin V. Lazarov and Gilbert R. Gonzales
193-206
Designing Interactive Tactile Diagrams
Ben Challis
562-564
3D Audio in the 21st Century
Damian T. Murphy, Michael C. Kelly and Anthony I. Tew
565-567
Going Places with “KnowWare”: Virtual Reality Maps for Blind People
Myron W. Krueger and Deborah Gilden
373-386
Mental Models of Blind Users in the Windows Environment
Sri Hastuti Kurniawan and Alistair Sutcliffe
163-165
An Approach to Producing New Languages for Talking Applications for Use by Blind People
D. G. Evans, K. Polyzoaki and P. Blenkhorn
583-584
User Requirements for Technologies for Personal Communication and Information Use for Deafblind People
Wendy Fisher and Helen Petrie
83-93
Project IPSIS - Web Portal and Linux for the Blind
Danko Butorac
3-18
An Analysis of Layout Errors in Word Processed Documents Produced by Blind People
T. Diggle, S. Kurniawan, D. G. Evans and P. Blenkhorn
589-590
Windows Screen Reader User Survey in Japan
Tetsuya Watanabe, Chuji Sashida and Shinichi Okada
359-378
Tools for Creating Documents in ‘Preferred Format’ for Visually Impaired People
D. G. Evans and P. Blenkhorn
499-512
Braille Printing System
Shunsuke Hara, Ryoko Kawamitsu, Kanako Kusunoki, Hiroshi Sato and Mamoru Fujiyoshi
602-609
Braille Contractions in WinBraille
Mats Blomquist
39-51
Braille to Text Translation for Hungarian
Andras Arato, Theresa Vaspori, Gareth Evans and Paul Blenkhorn
275-285
The WinBraille Approach to Producing Braille Quickly and Effectively
Mats Blomquist and Per Burman
620-627
Haptic Device System for Upper Limb Motor Function and Cognitive Function Rehabilitation
Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Takafumi Terada, Kaoru Inoue, Satoshi Sasada and Takashi Komeda
628-634
Networking for Accessibility: Elderly People and New Technology
Sirkku Männikkö-Barbutiu
25-66
Tele-Help and Remote Service Provision Using RESORT Prototype System
Paul Panek, Christian Beck, Andreas Hochgatterer, Stefan Mina and Barbara Prazak, et al.
373-412
Making Yourself at Home — Portable Personal Access Preferences
Jutta Treviranus
215-231
EU Project SILC — Personal Bio-Sensor Based Alarm System
Peter Mayer, Georg Edelmayer and Wolfgang L. Zagler
109-119
Videophones: Useful Assistive Devices for Visually Impaired Persons?
Morten Tollefsen and Magne Lunde
181-242
HMPH — “Habitat Mobile pour Personnes Handicapées” — Software for the Design of an Adapted Living Area
Jérôme Leloup and Pierre Gaucher
283-298
“Bonkers”. Increasing Literacy Skills: An Eclectic Electronic Teaching Approach Gone “Bonkers”
Diana P. James
345-358
Access Music
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Ben Challis
201-213
Spoken Music: Enhancing Access to Music for the Print Disabled
David Crombie, Sijo Dijkstra, Edmar Schut and Natasha Lindsay
35-114
A Music Score Recogniser for the Blind
Angelo Da Ronch and Adriano Blason
207-216
Visualization of Music Notation for Partially Sighted Persons
Tatiana Evreinova and Roope Raisamo
137-150
Accessing the Software Studio
Damian T. Murphy and Mark A. Hildred
55-68
Opening Doors to Information Technology - Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Helen Chamberlain
11-17
Access: The North American Experience of Legislating Attitudes
Zachariah Cameron
347-356
An Open Machine Translation System for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Constantinos Viglas and Georgios Kouroupetroglou
85-103
Capabilities and Limitations of the Disabled in Remote Access to Information
Ryszard Kowalik
151-160
IMPACT: An Example of Information, Awareness, and Legislation, Leading toward a More Accessible Workplace
Mueller Iversen
231-248
IT-Certificates to Foster the Vocational Integration of People with Disabilities: ECDL® PD
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Andrea Petz and Denise Leahy
143-163
ECDL for Visually Impaired Persons: Learning Materials, Individual Training, and Distance Education
Morten Tollefsen and Magne Lunde
723-730
ECDL® PD — Using a Well Known Standard to Lift Barriers on the Labour Market
Andrea Petz and Klaus Miesenberger
1-9
KISS - Keep It Short and Simple?
Andrea Petz
734-736
Many Ways to ECDL
Magne Lunde and Morten Tollefsen
215-228
Studying and Academic Mobility — IT Support for Students with Disabilities
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Joachim Klaus
387-401
Developing Academic Skills among Print Disabled Students: IT Based Austrian-Wide Network for Service Provision
Andrea Petz, Klaus Miesenberger and Bernhard Stöger
747-748
Access to Learning for All
Mirela Arion, Radu Ciupa and Marius Iulian Tutuianu
749-750
The Evolving Door: Providing Technology Access for Post-secondary Students in a Constantly Changing Technology-Based Culture
Janice Hecht and Bogdan Zamfir
299-314
Taking Assistive Technology to the Highest Degree
Todd Schmiedl and S. L. Dyser
3-10
Learning from Each Other: Comparing the Service Provision for Blind and Visually-Impaired Students in Post-secondary Education in Japan and Europe
Hiroshi Katoh, Martin Pauly, Shunsuke Hara, Hideji Nagaoka and Klaus Miesenberger
756-757
How Accessible Are Web Information Resources for Students with Disabilities?
Sri H. Kurniawan
27-46
Providing Assistive Technology and Alternate Media in Community Colleges: A Case Study
Calais Roussel
83-89
International Collaboration to Improve Assistive Technology Outcomes
Introduction to the Special Thematic Session
Marcia J. Scherer
131-142
The Study of Assistive Technology Outcomes in the United States
Marcia J. Scherer
413-449
Future Challenges in AT Outcome Measurement
Luc P. de Witte, G. J. Gelderblom and R. D. Wessels
25-38
European Instruments for Assistive Technology Outcome Assessment
G. J. Gelderblom, L. P. de Witte and R. D. Wessels
269-279
Implementing Outcomes Measurement in an Assistive Technology Service Delivery System
Gerald Craddock
Back matter