Universal Access. Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience: 7th ERCIM International Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Paris, France, Octo [Paperback]

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, held in Paris, France, in October 2002.

The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of refereeing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on user interfaces for all: accessibility issues, user interfaces for all: design and assessment, towards an information society for all, novel interaction paradigms: new modalities and dialogue style, novel interaction paradigms: accessibility issues, and mobile computing: design and evaluation.

User Interfaces for All  Accessibility Issues.- Effects of Multimodal Feedback on the Performance of Older Adults with Normal and Impaired Vision.- Age Related Differences and the Depth vs. Breadth Tradeoff in Hierarchical Online Information Systems.- Criteria for Usability of Accessible Web Sites.- Making Accessibility Guidelines Usable.- Adaptive Navigation of Visually Impaired Users in a Virtual Environment on the World Wide Web.- Fax Registration of Information about Disaster Victims.- User Interfaces for All  Design and Assessment.- Designing User Interfaces for a Variety of Users: Possible Contributions from Model-Based Development Schemes.- Implementing Inclusive Design: The Discrepancy between Theory and Practice.- Scenario-Based Argumentation for Universal Access.- Computer Environments for Improving End-User Accessibility.- USERfit Tool. A Tool to Facilitate Design for All.- Universal Access to Assistive Technology through Client-Centred Cognitive Assessment.- Towards an Information Society for All.- Applying a Holistic Approach to Develop User-Friendly, Customer-Oriented E-government Portal Interfaces.- Digital Television for All: User Preferences and Designers Views on What Would Suit the User.- A Metaphor for Personalized Television Programming.- Universal Access to Multimodal ITV Content: Challenges and Prlc4