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Tuesday 24th

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Monday 23rd

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Sunday April 22, 2018 (pre-conference)

Monday April 23, 2018 

Note: All sessions will be held in Salon Pasteur – NIVEAU +1

  • Conference opening (8:45 – 9:00) – Chris Bailey
  • Keynote (09:00 – 10:00)
    • Making “making” Accessible: Amy Hurst, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  • Session 1: Internet of Things – 1 of 2 (10:00 – 10:30) Session Chair: Jeff Bigham
    • 10.00-10.15: How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People (Communication Paper); Joao Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Dragan Ahmetovic, Chris Kitanai, Chieko Asakawa,Carnegie Mellon University.
    • 10.15-10.30:Internet of Things (IoT) as Assistive Technology: Potential Applications in Tertiary Education (Communication Paper) ; Scott Hollier, Edith Cowan University; Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  • Morning Break (10.30 – 11.00)
  • Session 2: Education (11:00 – 12:25) Session Chair: Elaine Pearson 
    • 11.00-11.20: Parallel DOM Architecture for Interactive Simulations (Technical Paper) Taliesin Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Sam Reid, Emily Moore, University of Colorado, Boulder.
    • 11.20-11.40:The accessibility of administrative processes: Assessing the impacts on students in higher education (Technical Paper); Tim Coughlan, Kate Lister, The Open University.
    • 11.40-11.55: Improving Usability of Math Editors (Communication Paper); Neil Soiffer, Talking Cat Software. (Best Communication Paper Nominee)
    • 12.05-12.20: On Accessibility Policies for Higher Education Institutions (Communication Paper); Giorgio Brajnik, Sanela Graca, University of Udine.
  • Lunch Break (12.25 – 13.30)
  • Session 3: IBM Award for Students with Disabilities (13:30 – 14:00) Session Chair: Hironobu Takagi/Chieko Asakawa

    • Shantanu D. Ladkat, Savitribai Phule University, Pune, India
    • Davide Mulfari, University of Pisa, Italy
  • Session 4: Paciello Group Web Accessibility Challenge – Presentation Session (14.00 – 15:00) Session Chair: Chris Bailey/Volker Sorge

    • Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading – Andrea Britto Mattos Lima, Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira – IBM Research, Brazil.
    • Adaptable maps for people with autism – Claudia De Los Rios Perez, David A. McMeekin, Marita Falkmer, Tele Tan – Curtin University, Australia.
    • WebSight: Using AR and WebGL shaders to assist the visually impaired – Dan Ruta, Louis Jordan, Tom James Fox, Tom James Fox – University of Portsmouth, UK.
    • DysHelper – The Dyslexia Assistive User Experience – Tereza Pařilová, Romana Remšíková, Filip Mrvan – Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
    • Accessify: An ML Powered Application to Automatically Provide Image Descriptions on Website – Shivam Sing, Anurag Bhandari, Nishith Pathak – Accenture, India.
    • Parallel DOM Architecture for Interactive Simulations – Taliesin Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Sam Reid, Emily Moore, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Afternoon Break (15.00 – 15.30)
  • Session 5: Paciello Group Web Accessibility Challenge – Demonstration Session (15.30 – 16:25) Session Chair: Chris Bailey/Volker Sorge

    • All Challenge Entrants.
  • Session 6: Google Doctoral Consortium – Presentation Session – 1 of 2 (16.30 – 17.00) Session Chairs: Giorgio Brajnik and Dragan Ahmetovic
    • Davide Mulfari, University of Pisa, Italy – A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments.
    • Claudia De Los Rios Perez, Curtin University Australia – Adaptable User Interfaces for People with Autism: A Transportation Example.
  • Session 7: User Interface Design (17.00 – 17.35) Session Chair: Yeliz Yesilada 
    • 17.00-17.20: Exploring the Role of Tunnel Vision Simulation in the Design Cycle of Accessible Interfaces (Technical Paper); Rie Kamikubo, Keita Higuchi, Ryo Yonetani, Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo; Hideki Koike, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
    • 17.20-17.35: Application for the configuration and adaptation of the Android operating system for the visually impaired (Communication Paper); Brunoa De Oliveira, Juliana Braga, Rafael Damaceno, Federal University of ABC.
  • W4A Conference Dinner (19.00)
    • Return Transport to the Dinner Venue will be provided. The shuttle bus will depart the Conference Centre from Entrance H at 19:00 and return at 22:15.
    • The “William Loughborough” After Dinner Talk: 25 years at the coalface of accessibility: time flies when you are having fun!: Professor Helen Petrie, University of York.

Tuesday April 24, 2018

Note: All sessions will be held in Salon Pasteur – NIVEAU +1

  • Keynote (9.00 – 10.00)

    • “A Person Like Me: Virtual Peers as Interface and Education”: Justine Cassell, Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact, Carnegie Mellon University. 
  • Session 8: Internet of Things – 2 of 2 (10.00 – 10:20) Session Chair: Jeff Bigham 
    • 10.00-10.20: Home Automation for an Independent Living: Investigating Needs of the Visually Impaired People (Technical Paper); Barbara Leporini, Marina Buzzi, ISTI-CNR. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)
  • Morning Break (10.20 -11.00)
  • Session 9: Learning Disabilities (11:00 – 12:30) Session Chair: Carlos Duarte
    • 11.00-11.20: Detecting Autism Based on Eye-Tracking Data from Web Searching Tasks (Technical Paper); Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton; Sukru Eraslan, Yeliz Yesilada, Middle East Technical University. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)
    • 11.20-11.40: Towards a Language Independent Detection of Dyslexia with a Web-Game (Technical Paper);Maria Rauschenberger, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University.
    • 11.40-12.00: Computer Anxiety and Interaction: A Systematic Review (Technical Paper); Thiago Donizetti dos Santos, Federal University of ABC; Vagner Figueredo de Santana, IBM Research.
    • 12.00-12.15: Automatic Natural Language Generation Applied to Alternative and Augmentative Communication for Online Video Content Services using SimpleNLG for Spanish (Communication Paper); Silvia García-Méndez, Milagros Fernández-Gavilanes, Enrique Costa-Montenegro, Jonathan Juncal-Martínez, Francisco Javier González-Castaño, GTI Research Group, atlanTTic.
    • 12.15-12.30: Artificial Intelligence for Web Accessibility – Conformance Evaluation as a Way Forward?(Communication Paper); Shadi Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Best Communication Paper Nominee)
  • Lunch Break (12.30 – 13.30)
  • Session 10: Evaluation and Testing (13.30 – 14:30) Session Chair: Ted Drake
    • 13.30-13.45: Automatic Role Detection of Visual Elements of Web Pages for Automatic Accessibility Evaluation (Communication Paper);Carlos Duarte, Ana Salvado, Luis Carrico, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa; M Elgin Akpinar, Yeliz Yesilada, Middle East Technical University.
    • 13.45-14.00: Semantic Content Analysis Supporting Web Accessibility Evaluation (Communication Paper); Carlos Duarte, Ines Matos, Luis Carrico, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. (Best Communication Paper Nominee)
    • 14.00-14.15: Web Accessibility Evaluation in a Crowdsourcing-Based System with Expertise-Based Decision Strategy (Communication Paper); Shuyi Song, Bu Jiajun, Ye Wang, Zhi Yu, Andreas Artmeier, Can Wang, Zhejiang University; Lianjun Dai, China Disabled Persons’ Federation Information Center.
    • 14.15-14.30: Reliability Aware Web Accessibility Experience Metric (Communication Paper); Shuyi Song, Jiajun Bu, Chengchao Shen, Andreas Artmeier, Zhi Yu, Zhejiang University; Qin Zhou, China Disabled Persons’ Federation Information Center.
  • Session 11: Google Doctoral Consortium – Presentation Session – 2 of 2 (14:30 – 15.00) Session Chairs: Giorgio Brajnik and Dragan Ahmetovic

    • Muhammad Saleem, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia – Arabic Accessibility Guidelines – Understanding and Use by Web Developers in Kuwait.
    • Jens Pelzetter – University of Bremen, Germany – Using Ontologies as a Foundation for Web Accessibility Tools.
  • Afternoon Break (15.00 – 15.30)
  • Session 12: Assistive Technology (15:30 – 16:30) Session Chair: Vivienne Conway
    • 15.30-15.50: Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access (Technical Paper);Mikaylah Gross, Joe Dara, Christopher Meyer, Davide Bolchini, IU School of Informatics and Computing – Indianapolis. (Best Technical Paper Nominee)
    • 15.50-16.10: Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading (Technical Paper); Andrea Britto Mattos, Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira, IBM Research.
    • 16.10-16.25: Accessify: An ML Powered Application to Automatically Provide Image Descriptions on Website (Communication Paper); Shivam Singh, Anurag Bhandari, Nishith Parak, Accenture.
  • Session 13: Motor Impairments (16.30 – 17.30) Session Chair: Simon Harper
    • 16.30-16.50: Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments (Technical Paper); Lucas Rosenblatt, Brown University; Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University;Kotaro Hara, Singapore Management University.
    • 16.50-17.10: Designing an Adaptive Web Navigation Interface for Users with Variable Pointing Performance (Technical Paper);Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Purdue University Indianapolis; Foad Hamidi, Tajas Bhalerao, Catherine Hornback, Amy Hurst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Abdullah Ali, University of Washington; Casey Means, Rhodes College.
    • 17.10-17.30: Collaborative Accessibility Assessments by Senior Citizens Using Smartphone Application ReAcTS (Real-world Accessibility Transaction System) (Technical Paper); Takahiro Miura, Ken-ichiro Yabu, Institute of Gerontology (IOG), The University of Tokyo.
  • Awards and Closing (17.30 – 6.00)

Wednesday April 25, 2018

  • WWW Keynote (9:00 – 10:30): (Optional, paid-for add on)
  • W4A Unconference Activities (11:30 – 17:00): Please visit the W4A Unconference page for more details.Note: This will be held in Salle St Clair 4 – NIVEAU + 2
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