HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote: New Trends in Human–Computer Interaction

   1. The Changing Face of Human-Computer Interaction in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

      • Yvonne Rogers

      Pages 1-19

3. Age, Attitudes, Abilities, Acceptance, Attention: Gender and Cognitive Performance

   1. Different Perspectives on Technology Acceptance: The Role of Technology Type and Age

      • Katrin Arning, Martina Ziefle

      Pages 20-41

   2. A Mixed-Method Approach on Digital Educational Games for K12: Gender, Attitudes and Performance

      • Effie Lai-Chong Law, Tim Gamble, Daniel Schwarz, Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Andreas Holzinger

      Pages 42-54

   3. Improving Cognitive Abilities and e-Inclusion in Children with Cerebral Palsy

      • Chiara Martinengo, Francesco Curatelli

      Pages 55-68

   4. Finding Relevant Items: Attentional Guidance Improves Visual Selection Processes

      • Sonja Stork, Isabella Hild, Mathey Wiesbeck, Michael F. Zaeh, Anna Schubö

      Pages 69-80

4. Usefulness, Usability, Accessibility, Emotion: Confidence and the Elderly

   1. Which Factors Form Older Adults’ Acceptance of Mobile Information and Communication Technologies?

      • Wiktoria Wilkowska, Martina Ziefle

      Pages 81-101

   2. A Usability and Accessibility Design and Evaluation Framework for ICT Services

      • Özge Subasi, Michael Leitner, Manfred Tscheligi

      Pages 102-110

   3. The Building Bridges Project: Involving Older Adults in the Design of a Communication Technology to Support Peer-to-Peer Social Engagement

      • Joseph Wherton, David Prendergast

      Pages 111-134

   4. Cultural Specific Effects on the Recognition of Basic Emotions: A Study on Italian Subjects

      • Anna Esposito, Maria Teresa Riviello, Nikolaos Bourbakis

      Pages 135-148

5. Usability Testing, Evaluation, Measurement: Education, Learning and e-Inclusion

   1. Digital Literacy – Is It Necessary for eInclusion?

      • Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan

      Pages 149-158

   2. Enhancing Wikipedia Editing with WAI-ARIA

      • Caterina Senette, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini

      Pages 159-177

   3. Seeing the System through the End Users’ Eyes: Shadow Expert Technique for Evaluating the Consistency of a Learning Management System

      • Andreas Holzinger, Christian Stickel, Markus Fassold, Martin Ebner

      Pages 178-192

   4. Accessibility of Educational Software: A Problem Still to Be Solved

      • Giovanni Paolo Caruso, Lucia Ferlino

      Pages 193-208

6. Special Session: Design for Adaptive Content Processing

   1. Accessibility-by-Design: A Framework for Delivery-Context-Aware Personalised Media Content Re-purposing

      • Atta Badii, David Fuschi, Ali Khan, Adedayo Adetoye

      Pages 209-226

   2. Generating Dialogues from the Description of Structured Data

      • Luděk Bártek

      Pages 227-235

   3. Book4All: A Tool to Make an e-Book More Accessible to Students with Vision/Visual-Impairments

      • Antonello Calabrò, Elia Contini, Barbara Leporini

      Pages 236-248

   4. Enhancing Accessibility of Web Content for the Print-Impaired and Blind People

      • Aimilios Chalamandaris, Spyros Raptis, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Sotiris Karabetsos

      Pages 249-263

7. Heuristics and Theory Based Research: Grounded Theory, Activity Theory and Situated Action

   1. Towards the Era of Mixed Reality: Accessibility Meets Three Waves of HCI

      • Per Olof Hedvall

      Pages 264-278

   2. Investigating Agile User-Centered Design in Practice: A Grounded Theory Perspective

      • Zahid Hussain, Wolfgang Slany, Andreas Holzinger

      Pages 279-289

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion, held as the 5th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2009, in Linz, Austria, in November 2009. The 12 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on gender and cognitive performance, usefulness, usability, accessibility, emotion, confidence and elderly, usability testing, evaluation, measurement, education, learning and e-inclusion, design for adaptive content processing, grounded theory, activity theory and situated action, smart home, health and ambient assistent living, user centred design and usability practice, interaction, assistive technologies and virtual environments, communication, interfaces and haptic technology as well as new technologies and challenges for people with disabilities.

• Accessibility
• Stent
• Usability
• assistive technology
• augmented reality
• biometrics
• cognitive processes
• computer mediated communication
• conceptual design
• decision making
• digital educational games
• educational software
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• virtual environments

• Research Unit HCI4MED, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (IMI) Auenbruggerplatz 2/V, Medical University of Graz (MUG), Graz, Austria

  Andreas Holzinger

• Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  Klaus Miesenberger

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