9:00 - 18:00

Doctoral Consortium

Invited panelists and accepted participants only. See the Doctoral Consortium agenda.

16:00-19:00

Registration Desk Open

8:00 - 8:45

Registration

8:45 - 9:00

Introduction

Yeliz Yesilada (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus) and Jeff Bigham (Carnegie Mellon University)

9:00 - 10:00

Enabling the future:  Crowdsourced 3D-printed prosthetics as model for open source assistive technology innovation and mutual aid.

Jon Schull, Rochester Institute of Technology and e-NABLE

e-NABLE--an online community that designs, customizes, fabricates, and disseminates 3D-printed prosthetic hands and arms, for free--extends the methods and philosophies of Open Source software to hardware, assistive technology development, and human resources.  I'll tell the story of this remarkable community, and discuss emerging trends and opportunities for academic research, and trans-academic collaboration.

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session I

Posters in this session include Student Research Competition Posters, selected posters from the Poster Track and selected posters from the Travel Scholarship Winners.

11:00 - 12:30

Speech In and Out

Session Chair: Shaun Kane, University of Colorado

Faster Text-to-Speeches: Enhancing blind people’s information scanning with faster concurrent speech
João Guerreiro and Daniel Gonçalves

Towards large scale evaluation of novel sonification techniques for non visual shape exploration
Andrea Gerino, Lorenzo Picinali, Cristian Bernareggi, Nicolò Alabastro
and Sergio Mascetti

Getting smartphones to talkback: understanding the smartphone adoption process of blind users
André Rodrigues, Kyle Montague, Hugo Nicolau and Tiago Guerreiro

Experience report: A System for Controlling Assisted Living Environments Using Mobile Devices
Paulo Condado and Fernando Lobo

TACCESS: Evaluation of a context-aware voice interface for Ambient Assisted Living: qualitative user study vs. quantitative system evaluation
Michel Vacher, Sybille Caffiau, François Portet, Brigitte Meillon, Camille Roux, Elena Elias, Benjamin Lecouteux, and Pedro Chahuara

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

To be served in the hotel’s “Contemporâneo” restaurant

14:00 - 17:15

Reading and Language

Session Chair: Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisboa

A spellchecker for dyslexia
Luz Rello, Miguel Ballesteros and Jeffrey P. Bigham

Accessible texts for autism: an eye-tracking study
Victoria Yaneva, Irina Temnikova and Ruslan Mitkov

TACCESS: Making it Simplext: Implementation and Evaluation of a Text Simplification System for Spanish
Horacio Saggion, Sanja Stajner, Stefan Bott, Simon Mille, Luz Rello, and Biljana Drndarevic

TACCESS: Measuring the Performance of a Location-Aware Text Prediction System
Luís Garcia, Luis de Oliveira, and David de Matos

15:30 - 16:15

Coffee Break and Poster Session I

Posters in this session include Student Research Competition Posters, selected posters from the Poster Track and selected posters from the Travel Scholarship Winners.

16:15 - 17:30

Perspectives on Accessibility Research

Session Chair: Simon Harper, University of Manchester

Usage of subjective scales in accessibility research
Shari Trewin, Diogo Marques and Tiago Guerreiro

User participation when users have mental and cognitive disabilities
Stefan Johansson, Jan Gulliksen and Ann Lantz

A unifying notification system to scale up assistive services
Charles Consel, Lucile Dupuy and Hélène Sauzéon

Disability and technology - a critical realist perspective [Best Paper Nomination]
Christopher Frauenberger

19:00 - 21:00

Reception and Demo Session

The reception will be served at the Foyer area. Enjoy appetizers and drinks while you try out new accessible technology and devices accepted to the Demonstrations track or accompanying Technical Papers.

9:00 - 10:30

Non-Visual Access to Graphics

Session Chair: Shiri Azenkot, Cornell University

The tactile graphics helper: providing audio clarification for tactile graphics using machine vision
Giovanni Fusco and Valerie Morash

ChartMaster: A Tool for Interacting with Stock Market Charts using a Screen Reader
Hong Zou and Jutta Treviranus

TACESS: Guiding Novice Web Workers in Making Image Descriptions Using Templates
Valerie Morash, Yue-Ting Siu, Joshua Miele, Lucia Hasty, and Steven Landau

Collaborative creation of digital tactile graphics
Jens Bornschein, Denise Prescher and Gerhard Weber

Transcribing across the senses: community efforts to create 3d printable accessible tactile pictures for young children with visual impairments
Abigale Stangl, Chialo Hsu and Tom Yeh

10:30 - 11:15

Coffee Break and Poster Session II

Posters in this session include Doctoral Consortium Posters, selected posters from the Poster Track and selected posters from the Travel Scholarship Winners.

11:15 - 12:30

Sign Language and the Third Dimension

Session Chair: Hironobu Takagi, IBM Research - Tokyo

Comparing methods of displaying language feedback for student videos of american sign language
Matt Huenerfauth, Elaine Gale, Brian Penly, Mackenzie Willard and Dhananjai Hariharan

Demographic and experiential factors influencing acceptance of sign language animation by deaf users
Hernisa Kacorri, Matt Huenerfauth, Sarah Ebling, Kasmira Patel and Mackenzie Willard

How 3D virtual humans built by adolescents with ASD affect their 3D interactions [Best Paper Nomination]
Chao Mei, Lee Mason and John Quarles

TACCESS: Haptic 3D surface representation of table-based data for people with visual impairments
Benjamin Weyers, Jonas Braier, Katharina Lattenkamp, Benjamin Räthel, Sandra Schering, and Michael Wojatzki,

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

To be served in the hotel’s “Contemporâneo” restaurant

14:00 - 15:15

Accessibility and Work

Session Chair: Erin Brady, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

The invisible work of accessibility: how blind employees manage accessibility in mixed-ability workplaces
Stacy Branham and Shaun Kane

Understanding the challenges faced by neurodiverse software engineering employees: towards a more inclusive and productive technical workforce [Best Paper Nomination]
Meredith Ringel Morris, Andrew Begel and Ben Wiedermann

Using in-situ projection to support cognitively impaired workers at the workplace [Best Paper Nomination]
Markus Funk, Sven Mayer and Albrecht Schmidt

15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session II

Posters in this session include Doctoral Consortium Posters, selected posters from the Poster Track and selected posters from the Travel Scholarship Winners.

16:00 - 16:50

Student Research Competition Finalist Talks

Short talks by the top three finalists in both the undergraduate and graduate division.

16:50 - 17:30

Exercise and Physical Activity

Session Chair: Jon Froehlich, University of Maryland

"But, i don't take steps": examining the inaccessibility of fitness trackers for wheelchair athletes
Patrick Carrington, Kevin Chang, Helena Mentis and Amy Hurst

Exploring the opportunities and challenges with exercise technologies for people who are blind or low-vision
Kyle Rector, Lauren Milne, Richard Ladner, Batya Friedman and Julie Kientz

17:30 - 18:30

SIGACCESS Business Meeting

19:00 - 22:00

The Paciello Group Reception

Enjoy a cocktail dinatoire at Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (National Musem of Natural History and Science). Best paper awards and other award winners will be announced during the reception.

9:00 - 10:30

Making Speech Accessible and Usable

Session Chair: Matt Huenerfauth, Rochester Institute of Technology

Online news videos: the ux of subtitle position
Michael Crabb, Rhianne Jones, Mike Armstrong and Chris J. Hughes

Tracked speech-to-text display: enhancing accessibility and readability of real-time speech-to-text [Best Paper Nomination]
Raja Kushalnagar, Gary Behm, Aaron Kelstone and Shareef Ali

TACCESS: Individuality-preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Phoneme-categorized Exemplars
Ryo Aihara, Testuya Takiguchi, and Yasuo Ariki

Evaluating alternatives for better deaf accessibility to selected web-based multimedia
Brent Shiver and Rosalee Wolfe

TACCESS: Speech interaction with personal assistive robots supporting aging-at-home for individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Frank Rudzicz, Rosalie Wang, Momotaz Begum, and Alex Mihailidis

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:55

Non-Visual Access

Session Chair: Yu Zhong, Google

FORESEE: a customizable head-mounted vision enhancement system for people with low vision
Yuhang Zhao, Sarit Szpiro and Shiri Azenkot

Zebra crossing spotter: automatic population of spatial databases for increased safety of blind travelers
Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan and Sergio Mascetti

Social media platforms for low-income blind people in india [Best Paper Nomination]
Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, Nicola Dell and Richard Anderson

11:55 - 12:30

Text Input

Session Chair: Yu Zhong, Google

Typing performance of blind users: an analysis of touch behaviors, learning effect, and in-situ usage
Hugo Nicolau, Kyle Montague, André Rodrigues, Tiago Guerreiro and Vicki Hanson

TACCESS: Filteryedping: Design challenges and user performance of dwell-free eye typing
Diogo Pedrosa, Maria da Graça Pimentel, Amy Wright, and Khai Truong

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

To be served in the hotel’s “Contemporâneo” restaurant

14:00 - 15:15

Cognitive Disabilities

Session Chair: Shari Trewin, IBM

Inclusion and education: 3d printing for integrated classrooms
Erin Buehler, William Easley, Samantha McDonald, Niara Comrie and Amy Hurst

Towards efficacy-centered game design patterns for brain injury rehabilitation: a data-driven approach
Jinghui Cheng, Cynthia Putnam and Doris Rusch

TACCESS: Evaluating a Collaborative iPad Game’s Impact on Social Relationships for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
LouAnne Boyd, Kathryn Ringland, Oliver Haimson, Helen Fernandez, Maria Bistarky, and Gillian Hayes

TACCESS: Investigating Information Search by People with Cognitive Disabilities
Jinjuan Feng, and Ruimin Hu

15:15 - 15:30

Closing

Wrap up ASSETS 2015 and announce ASSETS 2016.