This Call for Papers just arrived for the Designing Inclusive Futures Workshop of the The 4th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access (UA) and Assistive Technology (AT) : CWUAAT 2008. It will be held 13-16 April, 2008:
DESIGNING INCLUSIVE FUTURES: “Creating a better balance of work, living and leisure, for disability and ageing”
WORKSHOP THEME
The workshop theme “Designing Inclusive Futures” reflects the need to explore the issues and practicalities of design that is intended to extend our active future lives in a coherent way. This encompasses design for inclusion: in the workplace; for businesses; for the individual and of products in these contexts.
The philosophy underlying inclusive design specifically extends the definition of product users to include people who are excluded by disability and rapidly changing technology, especially the elderly and ageing, and prioritises the role and value of impairment and disability in innovation and new product and service development. It also addresses the context of use, both physical and psychological, and the complexity of interactions between products, services and their interfaces in specific contexts of use, such as in the workplace and during independent living. Universal access and assistive technology are seen as key focussing domains for these issues.
The workshop aims to encourage wide-ranging discussion, co-operation and collaboration within and between the universal access and assistive technology research communities in the context of inclusive design. We hope this will lead to new solutions to reduce exclusion and difficulty arising from impairment with special application to our future lives, in the workplace, at home and at leisure.
Following the last CWUAAT 2006 and the two previous successful events in Cambridge in 2002 and 2004, the conference will return again to Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge on 13th – 16th April 2008.
The 4th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access (UA) and Assistive Technology (AT) : CWUAAT 2008
13-16 April, 2008
The general themes are:-
• Designing Assistive and Rehabilitation Technology for working and daily living environments
• Measuring inclusion for the design of products for work and daily living
• Computer Access, Intelligent Environments and New Technologies for inclusive design
• Accessible and Inclusive Design for work and daily living environments
• Assembling new User Data for inclusive design
• Social, Workplace and Environmental Context of Product use
• Legislation, Standards and Government Awareness of Inclusive Design
Contributions on other topics relevant to Assistive Technology, Universal access, and Inclusive Design will also be accepted. Please note that we welcome the submission of papers that include user testing of prototype systems or demonstrators with real users. Space and time will be available for demonstrations of software and hardware.
We expect that the accepted long papers will be published as a book by Springer-Verlag, UK. Short papers will be published in the proceedings. Selected long papers will appear in a special edition of the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal published by Springer.
As one of the most praised aspects of CWUAAT 06, the event will again include a Doctoral Consortium on the first morning of the conference. Candidates who submit to the doctoral consortium will be able to attend the workshop at a greatly reduced registration and 10 places have been allocated for this purpose. The two presentations judged to be the best by the consortium panel will win a podium presentation in the main workshop.
SOLICITED CONTRIBUTIONS
CWUAAT aims to solicit:
• Formal papers (6-10 pages), reporting original work relevant to the workshop themes;
• Poster presentations (1-2 pages abstract, 3-4 pages for camera-ready copy); and
• Demonstrations (1 page description)
Further details of paper format and electronic submission instructions will be available on the conference web-site. All papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee, and the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of formal/position papers, poster abstracts:- 3 September, 2007
Deadline for demonstration submissions: 1 October, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance: 12 October, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready version of submitted papers: 16 November, 2007
Advance registration (ends): 18 January, 2008
Late registration (ends): 28 February, 2008
CWUAAT Workshop: 13-16 April, 2008
ORGANISING COMITTEE
Prof John Clarkson, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Dr Patrick Langdon, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Prof Peter Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
CONTACT INFORMATION AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO
pml24@eng.cam.ac.uk
cwuaat-enquiries@eng.cam.ac.uk
http://rehab-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/cwuaat/cwuaat08.htm
DEMONSTRATIONS
It is hoped that participants will be able to gain hands-on experience with working systems. Space and time will be available for demonstrations of software and hardware.
We hope you will take this chance to plan to submit a paper to CWUAAT and look forward to seeing you in 2008.
Pat Langdon, John Clarkson, and Peter Robinson: Organising Committee for CWUAAT’08.
Engineering Design Centre
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
Phone: 01223 748245
Fax: 01223 766963
e-mail: mjh94@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Posted by rollingrains at June 12, 2007 05:45 PM