Designing Accessible Mobile Services, One-day Workshop organized at the IFIP TC 13 INTERACT 2021 conference

Dear LDA Members,

 

I would like to bring to your attention the following workshop, "Designing
Accessible Mobile Services," which will be held as part of the INTERACT 2021
conference. We very much welcome contributions from your side and ask you to
forward the information to distributors in the field of inclusion.

 

Best regards

 

Claudia

 

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Designing Accessible Mobile Services 
One-day Workshop organized at the IFIP TC 13 INTERACT 2021 conference
August 30th, 2021, Bari, Italy (or online, if needed)
 <https://www.interact2021.org/workshops.php>
https://www.interact2021.org/workshops.php 
Workshop information:  <https://accessiblemaps.de/?page_id=867&lang=en>
https://accessiblemaps.de/?page_id=867&lang=en 
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
This one-day workshop will address the most recent developments in universal
design of mobile services and electronic travel aids, mapping services, and
indoor navigation. In particular, we encourage researchers, designers and
developers to exchange ideas on new assistive technologies which are needed,
the methods of universal design for mobile services, and evaluation with
users in a mobile context. 

In particular, the workshop addresses how people with low vision, people
with physical impairments or cognitive impairments can benefit from
assistive technology and geographic information systems. The workshop will
provide opportunities to share ongoing work on various aspects of accessible
mobile services.

EXAMPLES OF RELEVANT TOPICS:
- universal design of wearables
- Requirements anaysis, development of personas
- Allocentric and egocentric approaches to interaction with mobile devices 
- Multiple modalities to ensure users can travel efficiently and effectively

- Blind spots in repositories for geographical information such as buildings

- Evaluation of prototypic accessible mobile systems 

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Prospective participants should submit papers of max. 4 pages length
(including references) in Springer LNCS format by email to
<mailto:interactworkshop@tu-dresden.de> interactworkshop@tu-dresden.de
describing their experience, interest and views on designing mobile
services. Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Selected contributions
might be invited for publication at a later date.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Submissions will be selected according to relevance, diversity of opinions,
and probability of creating dynamic discussion. We plan to send out
notifications on July 2nd 2021.
If accepted, at least one author must register for the workshop at  INTERACT
2021 ( <https://www.interact2021.org/> https://www.interact2021.org/ ).

IMPORTANT DATES
• Jun 4, 2021: Submission deadline of position papers
• July 2, 2021: Notification of acceptance
• July 26, 2021: Final workshop papers due  
• Aug 30, 2021:  Workshop in Bari or online


More information is available at
<https://accessiblemaps.de/?page_id=867&lang=en>
https://accessiblemaps.de/?page_id=867&lang=en  

ORGANIZERS
Claudia Loitsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Karin Müller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Helen Petrie, University of York, United Kingdom
Gerhard Weber, TU Dresden, Germany