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Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services for Quality of Life

7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part III

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Table of contents (78 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Universal Access to Smart Environments and Ambient Assisted Living

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Design for Adapted Devices: An Evaluation Tool of Smart Things for Seniors

      • Javier Barcenilla, Charles Tijus, Djamel Aissaoui, Eric Brangier
      Pages 3-11
    3. Collective Intelligence for Einclusion

      • Laura Burzagli, Pier Luigi Emiliani
      Pages 30-37
    4. Ambient Assistive Technology Considered Harmful

      • Yngve Dahl, Babak Farshchian, Anders Kofod-Petersen, Silje Bøthun, Kristine Holbø, Jarl KÃ¥re Reitan
      Pages 38-47
    5. Home Robots, Learn by Themselves

      • Osamu Hasegawa, Daiki Kimura
      Pages 48-53
    6. The Future of Universal Access? Merging Computing, Design and Engineering

      • Simeon Keates, David Bradley, Andrew Sapeluk
      Pages 54-63
    7. WorkSense: An Interactive Space Design for Future Workplace

      • Hsuan-Cheng Lin, Taysheng Jeng
      Pages 64-69
    8. Building Up Virtual Environments Using Gestures

      • Alexander Marinc, Carsten Stocklöw, Andreas Braun
      Pages 70-78
    9. Gathering the Users’ Needs in the Development of Assistive Technology: A Blind Navigation System Use Case

      • Hugo Paredes, Hugo Fernandes, Paulo Martins, João Barroso
      Pages 79-88
    10. Ambient Assisted Living Development in East Slovakia

      • DuÅ¡an Å imšík, Alena Galajdová, Daniel Siman, Daniela Onofrejová
      Pages 89-96
    11. Resource Management for Multimodal and Multilingual Adaptation of User Interfaces in Ambient Assisted Living Environments

      • Carsten Stocklöw, Andrej Grguric, Tim Dutz, Tjark Vandommele, Arjan Kuijper
      Pages 97-106
    12. BioCyberUrban parQ: An Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing System for Environmental Integration

      • Suzete Venturelli, Francisco de Paula Barretto, André Bassani de Freitas
      Pages 116-124
  3. Universal Access to Learning and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Approaches to E-Learning

      • Susanne Akrawi Hartvig, Eva Petersson Brooks
      Pages 127-132
    3. Deaf Students and Comic Hypermedia: Proposal of Accessible Learning Object

      • Raul Inácio Busarello, Vania Ribas Ulbricht, Patricia Bieging, Vilma Villarouco
      Pages 133-142
    4. Developing Story Performing System for Children

      • Chien-Hsu Chen, Shao-Yu Wang, Yi-Chai Nina Lee
      Pages 143-152

About this book

The three-volume set LNCS 8009-8011 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences.
The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.
The total of 230 contributions included in the UAHCI proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this three-volume set. The 78 papers included in this volume are organized in the following topical sections: universal access to smart environments and ambient assisted living; universal access to learning and education; universal access to text, books, ebooks and digital libraries; health, well-being, rehabilitation and medical applications; access to mobile interaction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services for Quality of Life

  • Book Subtitle: 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part III

  • Editors: Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39193-4Published: 10 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39194-1Published: 01 July 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 697

  • Number of Illustrations: 244 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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