Research and Development Interest Group

Teleconference on Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities

April 28, 2003

Agenda

• Chair's Opening Remarks

• Introduction - Jan Richards, University of Toronto ATRC

• Social Interaction Web Sites and Web Adaptation (slides)

  Alison Lee, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Labs

• CRUNCH - Web-based Collaboration for Persons with Disabilities (slides)

  Suhit Gupta and Gail Kaiser, Columbia University

• Translation, Modality Transformation and Assistance Services -- Research and Infrastructure Development (slides)

  Gottfried Zimmermann, Trace R&D Center, University of Wisconsin

• Discussion
• Conclusion and Next Steps

Additional Positions Papers

• Remote discussions: advance planning, cultural sensitivity, and thinking aloud

  Beth Archibald, UserWorks, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

• Adaptive Content Delivery to Assist Blind Students in Accessing Course Materials

  M. Emin Donderler, K. Selcuk Candan, T. Hedgpeth, S. Panchanathan, Arizona State University

• Collaborative Software Development Communityware: e-Duet

  *Atsuo Hazeyama, *Masatoshi Shimakage, and **Tsutomu Ishide * Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan ** Sakurabashi Junior High School, Tokyo, Japan

• Virtual Collaboratories for Users with Special Needs: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Framework to Support the Disabled

  Vesper Owei, Abiodun Bada and Manny Aniebonam, Geroge Washington University

• Software for International Collaborations

  K. M. Swigger, Ferda Alpaslan, R.P.Brazile, and Brian Harrington, Department of Computer Science University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 2 Department of Computer Engineering , Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Event Information

The teleconference will take place on Monday, 28 April, 2003, at 10:00 EST (18:00 UTC/ Duration of the teleconference will be 90 minutes. The format of the event is a teleconference, augmented by web-based presentation material, and IRC. Registration for the teleconference is required, and is limited to 30 participants. Additional participants may be accommodated in text-only mode via IRC. Registration will close on 25 April, 2003.

Questions for discussion may be submitted in advance by email to the chair, no later than 08:00 am EST on 28 April, 2003.