INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Target audience includes researchers, designers, experts and scholars, in the field of usability, accessibility, disabilities, multimedia development, sociology, psychology, graphic design, among others and its related areas. These areas include content creation, human-computer-interaction and usability expertise. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level.
We welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, artistic and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), disability installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome.
Participants will be able to observe many different works and projects of accessibility from a multicultural perspective. All those materials will relate to multimedia technologies. A selected series of proposals will be aimed to be developed cooperatively from a multidisciplinary and multicultural view, to search for possible global solutions to the problems related to creating adaptable and accessible interfaces.
Maximum length is 10 pages in English.
Each workshop accepted paper must have at least one author registered by the advance registration deadline as a non-student, for the paper to be included in the final program and in the main conference proceedings.
All papers must follow the standard ACM style guidelines and must be submitted in PDF or DOC format using:
Proceedings:
Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the workshop proceedings together with the ACM Multimedia 2009 proceedings.
Extended versions of accepted papers will be invited to submit to an special issue of "Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal" (http://www.ubicc.org).