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• Design for Adaptive Content Processing
• Digital Access to Documents for People with Print Disabilities
• HCI and Non Classical Interfaces
• HCI: Software Accessibility and Social Interaction
• Entertainment Software Accessibility
• Accessible Tourism
• Smart and Assistive Environments
• Usable Web Accessibility: Editing
• Usable Web Accessibility: Education and Motivation
• Usable Web Accessibility: Evaluation
• eGovernment Accessibility
• Accessibility of Blended and E-Learning for Mature Age and Disabled Students and Staff
• Successful Service Provision
• Standards: A Driver for Accessibility and Usability
• People with Speech Impairment: "Weak and Silent Speech": Tools to Support People with Speech Impairment
• People with Speech Learning and Cognitive Problems: Easy-to-Web.

Annotation---This book constiutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2010.

• Cognitive Assistance and Chronic Diseases Management.- Computer-Based Assessment of Bradykinesia, Akinesia and Rigidity in Parkinson's Disease.- An Assistive Computerized System for Children with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities.- Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People with Cognitive Impairments.- Mapping User Needs to Smartphone Services for Persons with Chronic Disease.- Trial Results of a Novel Cardiac Rhythm Management System Using Smart Phones and Wireless ECG Sensors.- Ambient Living Systems.- Participatory Medicine: Leveraging Social Networks in Telehealth Solutions.- A Case Study of an Ambient Living and Wellness Management Health Care Model in Australia.- Market Potential for Ambient Assisted Living Technology: The Case of Canada.- Service Continuity and Context Awareness.- An Ontology-Based Actuator Discovery and Invocation Framework in Home Care Systems.- Towards an Affective Aware Home.- Global System for Localization and Guidance of Dependant People: Indoor and Outdoor Technologies Integration.- An Architecture to Combine Context Awareness and Body Sensor Networks for Health Care Applications.- User Modeling and Human-Machine Interaction.- Multimodal Laser-Vision Approach for the Deictic Control of a Smart Wheelchair.- Pervasive Informatics and Persistent Actimetric Information in Health Smart Homes.- Interactive Calendar to Help Maintain Social Interactions for Elderly People and People with Mild Cognitive Impairments.- Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Human Intentions in a Smart Home Environment.- Multi-purpose Ambient Display System Supporting Various Media Objects.- Ambient Intelligence Modeling and Privacy Issues.- Towards a Task Supporting System with CBR Approach in Smart Home.- Appliance Recognition from Electric Current Signals for Information-Energy Integrated Network in Home Environments.- WIVA: WSN Monitoring Framework Based on 3D Visualization and Augmented Reality in Mobile Devices.- Environment Objects: A Novel Approach for Modeling Privacy in Pervasive Computing.- Privacy-Aware Web Services in Smart Homes.- Human Behavior and Activities Monitoring.- Concept and Design of a Video Monitoring System for Activity Recognition and Fall Detection.- Design and Trial Deployment of a Practical Sleep Activity Pattern Monitoring System.- A Rotating Roll-Call-Based Adaptive Failure Detection and Recovery Protocol for Smart Home Environments.- Fall Detection and Alert for Ageing-at-Home of Elderly.- ADL Monitoring System Using FSR Arrays and Optional 3-Axis Accelerometer.- Short Papers.- Efficient Incremental Plan Recognition Method for Cognitive Assistance.- Home Based Self-management of Chronic Diseases.- SOPRANO - An Ambient Assisted Living System for Supporting Older People at Home.- An Agent-Based Healthcare Support System in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.- A Ubiquitous Computing Environment to Support the Mobility of Users with Special Needs.- Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services and Applications within Smart Houses Context.- Design and Implementation of Mobile Self-care System Using Voice and Facial Images.- Towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Tele-Rehabilitation.- IP Multimedia Subsystem Technology for Ambient Assisted Living.- Enhancing OSGi: Semantic Add-ins for Service Oriented Collaborative Environments.- Using Web Services for Medication Management in a Smart Home Environment.- Service Reconfiguration in the DANAH Assistive System.- Model-Driven Development Approach for Providing Smart Home Services.- LET_ME: An Electronic Device to Help Elderly People with Their Home Medications.- Preferences of Healthcare Staff in the Way of Interacting with Robots Depending on Their Prior Knowledge of ICTs: Findings from Iward Project.- Research and Development Pathway of Rehabilitative and Assistive Robots at National Rehabilitation Center in Korea.- A Predictive Analysis of the Night-Day Activities Level of Older Patient in a Health Smart Home.- Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition Modalities for Smart Home Inhabitant Movement Behavioural Analysis.- Towards Improved Information Quality: The Integration of Body Area Network Data within Electronic Health Records.- Distributed Dynamic Self-adaptation of Data Management in Telemedicine Applications.
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We are living in a world full of innovations for the elderly and people with s- cial needs to use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to more easily perform activities of daily living, continue social participation, engage in ent- tainment and leisure activities, and to enjoy living independently. These in- vations are inspired by new technologies leveraging all aspects of ambient and pervasive intelligence with related theories, technologies, methods, applications, and services on ubiquitous, pervasive, AmI, universal, mobile, embedded, we- able, augmented, invisible, hidden, context-aware, calm, amorphous, sentient, proactive, post PC, everyday, autonomic computing from engineering, business and organizationalperspectives. In the ?eld of smart homes and health telem- ics, signi?cant research is underway to enable ageing and disabled people to use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to foster independent living and to o?er them an enhanced quality of life. A smart home is a vision of the future where computers and computing - vices will be available naturally and unobtrusively anywhere, anytime, and by di?erent means in our daily living, working, learning, business, and infota- ment environments. Such a visionopens tremendous opportunities for numerous novel services/applications that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive in both real and cyber spaces.
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• Speech and Linguistics.- Statistical Evaluation of Biometric Evidence in Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition.- Forensic Authorship Attribution Using Compression Distances to Prototypes.- Printers.- Estimation of Inkjet Printer Spur Gear Teeth Number from Pitch Data String of Limited Length.- Detecting the Spur Marks of Ink-Jet Printed Documents Using a Multiband Scanner in NIR Mode and Image Restoration.- Fingerprints.- A Computational Discriminability Analysis on Twin Fingerprints.- Probability of Random Correspondence for Fingerprints.- Visualisation.- A New Computational Methodology for the Construction of Forensic, Facial Composites.- Geovisualization Approaches for Spatio-temporal Crime Scene Analysis - Towards 4D Crime Mapping.- Multimedia.- Multimedia Forensics Is Not Computer Forensics.- Using Sensor Noise to Identify Low Resolution Compressed Videos from YouTube.- Using the ENF Criterion for Determining the Time of Recording of Short Digital Audio Recordings.- Handwriting.- A Machine Learning Approach to Off-Line Signature Verification Using Bayesian Inference.- Computer-Assisted Handwriting Analysis: Interaction with Legal Issues in U.S. Courts.- Analysis of Authentic Signatures and Forgeries.- Documents.- Automatic Line Orientation Measurement for Questioned Document Examination.- Color Deconvolution and Support Vector Machines.
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ThisLectureNotesinComputerScience(LNCS)volumecontainsthepapers p- sentedatthe ThirdInternationalWorkshoponComputationalForensics(IWCF 2009), held August 13-14, 2009 at The Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, The Netherlands. Computational forensics is a research domain focusing on the investigation of forensic problems using computational methods. Its primary goal is the d- covery and advancement of forensic knowledge involving modeling, computer simulation, and computer-based analysis and recognition in studying and so- ing forensic problems. The Computational Forensics Workshop series is intended as a forum for researchers and practicioners in all areas of computational and forensic s- ences. This forum discusses current challenges in computer-assisted forensics and presents recent progress and advances. IWCF addressesa broadspectrum of forensicdisciplines fromcriminal inv- tigation. The NAS report "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward, " published in 2009, already concluded that: "With the exc- tion of nuclear DNA analysis, no forensic method has been rigorously shown to havethecapacitytoconsistentlyandwithahighdegreeofcertaintydemons trate aconnectionbetweenevidenceandspeci?cindividualorsource."Computat ional methods can assist with statistical methods using, for example, likelihood ratios to strengthen the di?erent ?elds of forensic science. The organization of such an event is not possible without the e?ort and the enthousiasm of everyone involved. We thank all the members of the P- gram Committee for the timely reviewing process and the adherence to high standards. June 2009 Zeno J.M.H. Geradts Katrin Y. Franke Cor J. Veenman IWCF2009 Organization IWCF2009 was jointly organized by The Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2006. The 193 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers evaluate, how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment. Among the technical fields evaluated are information systems, Web, Internet, and their applications, the information society, communication technology, computer-assisted education, human-computer interaction, interface design, virtual reality, haptic computing, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, assistive technology, multimedia, display technology, haptic computing, audio interfaces, and societal and administrative issues.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2004, held in Paris, France, in July 2004. The 172 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities. Among the technical fields evaluated are information systems, Web and Internet, the information society, computer-assisted education, human-computer interaction, interface design, virtual reality, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, assistive technology, multimedia, display technology, haptic computing, audio interfaces, and societal and administrative issues.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2002, held in Linz, Austria in July 2002. The 155 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities. Among the technical fields evaluated are information systems, information society, computer-assisted education, human-computer interaction, interface design, virtual reality, Internet applications, mobile computing, assistive technology, communication technology, multimedia, display technology, haptic copmuting, audio interfaces, and societal and administrative issues.
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• Trends and Challenges
• Computational Forensics: An Overview
• Computational Methods for Determining Individuality
• Scanner, Printer, and Prints
• Survey of Scanner and Printer Forensics at Purdue University
• Evaluation of Graylevel-Features for Printing Technique Classification in High-Throughput Document Management Systems
• Document Signature Using Intrinsic Features for Counterfeit Detection
• Human Identification
• Automatic Feature Extraction from 3D Range Images of Skulls
• 3D Processing and Visualization of Scanned Forensic Data
• Person Identification Based on Barefoot 3D Sole Shape
• Shoeprints
• Computerized Matching of Shoeprints Based on Sole Pattern
• Shoe-Print Extraction from Latent Images Using CRF
• Linguistics
• Finding Identity Group "Fingerprints" in Documents
• Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis
• An Intelligent System for Semantic Information Retrieval Information from Textual Web Documents
• Decision Making and Search
• Support of Interviewing Techniques in Physical Access Control Systems
• Application of q-Gram Distance in Digital Forensic Search
• Speech Analysis
• Similarity Visualization for the Grouping of Forensic Speech Recordings
• Handwritten Signature and Speech: Preliminary Experiments on Multiple Source and Classifiers for Personal Identity Verification
• Signatures and Handwriting
• Signature Verification Using a Bayesian Approach
• Stroke-Morphology Analysis Using Super-Imposed Writing Movements
• Invariants Discretization for Individuality Representation in Handwritten Authorship.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, held in Washington, DC, USA, August 7-8, 2008. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on trends and challenges; scanner, printer, and prints; human identification; shoeprints; linguistics; decision making and search; speech analysis; signatures and handwriting.
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• Toward a Desirable Relationship of Artificial Objects and the Elderly: From the Standpoint of Engineer and Psychologist Dialogue.- A Framework of Context-Aware Object Recognition for Smart Home.- A Pervasive Watch-Over System Based on Device, User and Social Awareness.- A Context-Driven Programming Model for Pervasive Spaces.- Tracking People in Indoor Environments.- Smart Mote-Based Medical System for Monitoring and Handling Medication Among Persons with Dementia.- Home Based Assistive Technologies for People with Mild Dementia.- Roadmap-Based Collision-Free Motion Planning for Multiple Moving Agents in a Smart Home Environment.- Peripheral Telecommunications: Supporting Distributed Awareness and Seamless Transitions to the Foreground.- An Authentication Architecture Dedicated to Dependent People in Smart Environments.- Secure Spaces: Protecting Freedom of Information Access in Public Places.- Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation Detection Algorithm for 24/7 Personal Wireless Heart Monitoring.- homeML - An Open Standard for the Exchange of Data Within Smart Environments.- Characterizing Safety of Integrated Services in Home Network System.- Fusion and Fission: Improved MMIA for Multi-modal HCI Based on WPS and Voice-XML.- Smart Learning Buddy.- Personalized Magic Mirror: Interactive Mirror Based on User Behavior.- Service Abstraction Model for Dynamic User Interface Presentation.- Report on the Impact of a User-Centered Approach and Usability Studies for Designing Mobile and Context-Aware Cognitive Orthosis.- Context Aware Life Pattern Prediction Using Fuzzy-State Q-Learning.- Distributed Vision-Based Accident Management for Assisted Living.- RNG-Based Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Small-Scale Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Visual Editor to Support the Use of Temporal Logic for ADL Monitoring.- Development of a Job Stress Evaluation Methodology Using Data Mining and RSM.- Supporting Impromptu Service Discovery and Access in Heterogeneous Assistive Environments.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2007, held in Nara, Japan in June 2007. It presents the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and emerging enabling technologies.
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• Biometrics
• Document image inspection
• Applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th and 6th International Workshops on Computational Forensics, IWCF 2012 and IWCF 2014, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in November 2010 and August 2014. The 16 revised full papers and 1 short paper were carefully selected from 34 submissions during a thorough review process. The papers are divided into three broad areas namely biometrics; document image inspection; and applications.

• Design and Usability.- Biomedical and Health Informatics.- Activity and Recognition.- Independent Living Technology.- Smart Home Technology.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2017, held in Paris, France, in August 2017. The 18 regular papers, 5 short papers together with 2 invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of design, development, deployment and evaluation of Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems.
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• Smart homes, smart urban spaces and new assistive living space concepts in the smart city
• E-Health for future smart cities
• Context awareness and autonomous computing
• Home networks and residential gateways
• Middleware support for smart homes and health telematic services
• E-Health and chronic disease management
• E-Health technology assessment and impact analysis
• Tele-assistance and Tele-rehabilitation
• Modeling of physical and conceptual Information in intelligent environments
• Medical big data collection, processing and analysis
• Human machine interfaces
• Wearable sensors and continuous health monitoring
• Social, privacy and security issues
• Mobile Health Services
• Smart Rehabilitation Technologies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2016, held in Wuhan, China, in May 2016. The 39 regular papers, 5 short papers and 1 poster paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: smart homes, smart urban spaces and new assistive living space concepts in the smart city; e-health for future smart cities; context awareness and autonomous computing; home networks and residential gateways; middleware support for smart homes and health telematic services; e-health and chronic disease management; e-health technology assessment and impact analysis; tele-assistance and tele-rehabilitation; modeling of physical and conceptual information in intelligent environments; medical big data collection, processing and analysis; human machine interfaces; wearable sensors and continuous health monitoring; social, privacy and security issues; mobile health services; and smart rehabilitation technologies.

• Accessibility of Non-Verbal Communication: Making Spatial Information Accessible to People with Disabilities.- Accessibility of Non-Verbal Communication: Making Spatial Information Accessible to People with Disabilities: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Accessible Multimodal Tool Support for Brainstorming Meetings.- Pointing Gesture Based User Interaction of Tool Supported Brainstorming Meetings.- Communication Device for People with Cerebral Palsy Assisted with Head Movements.- Enabling Real-time 3D Display of Lifelike Fingerspelling in a Web App.- Cognitive Disabilities and Accessibility - Pushing the Boundaries of Inclusion Using Digital Technologies and Accessible eLearning Environments.- Cognitive Disabilities and Accessibility - Pushing the Boundaries of Inclusion Using Digital Technologies and Accessible eLearning Environments: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Adaptive User Interfaces for People with Cognitive Disabilities within the Easy Reading Framework.- Automatic Assistance to Cognitive Disabled Web Users via Reinforcement Learning on the Browser.- Developing of Kid Can Write as Assistive Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities.- Improving Fitness Levels of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preliminary Evaluation of Real-Time Interactive Heart Rate Visualization to Motivate Engagement in Physical Activity.- Introduction of Compensatory Technology in Vocational Rehabilitation: A Practice Study about the Value of Technology and the Values that Shape these Practices.- Investigating Usability and Engagement in a Money Management Application for Users with Intellectual Disability.- Towards Modeling of Interpersonal Proximity Using Head-Mounted Camera for Children with ASD.- \ADAPEI-TRANSPORT": A GPS Based Mobile App for Learning Paths and Improving Autonomy for Young Adults Having Intellectual Disabilities to Take Public Transport.- ICT To Support Inclusive Education - Universal Learning Design (ULD).- ICT to Support Inclusive Education: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Information Technology in the Musical and Speech Development of Mentally Retarded Children in an Orphanage.- Promoting Creative Computer-Based Music Education and Composition for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Terpsichore Software Music Interface.- WebMoti.- Development of a Learning-Support System for Science Using Collaboration and Body Movement for Hearing-Impaired Children: Learning Support for Plant Germination and Growth Conditions.- Promoting Inclusive Open Education: A Holistic Approach Towards a Novel Accessible OER Recommender System.- Hearing Systems and Accessories for People with Hearing Loss.- Hearing Systems and Accessories for People with Hearing Loss: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- A Study Examining a Real-Time Sign Language-to-Text Interpretation System Using Crowdsourcing.- Readability of Punctuation in Automatic Subtitles.- Analysis of the Gaze Behavior of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students During a Captioned Lecture.- Survey for People with Visual Impairment or Hearing Loss on Using Museums in Japan.- Mobile Health and Mobile Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities: Current State, Challenges and Opportunities.- Mobile Health and Mobile Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities: Current State, Challenges and Opportunities. Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- A Mobile Diary App to Support Rehabilitation at Home for Elderly with COPD: A Preliminary Feasibility Study.- A User Study About Designing a Mobile App for Motivating Multiple Sclerosis Patients for Self-Rehabilitation.- Accelerometer-Based Machine Learning Categorization of Body Position in Adult Populations.- Survey of Rehabilitation Clinicians in the United States: Barriers and Critical Use-Cases for mRehab Adoption.- SwapMyMood: User-Centered Design and Development of a Mobile App to Support Executive Function.- Survey of User Needs: Mobile Apps for mHealth and People with Disabilities.- Innovation and Implementation in the Area of Independent Mobility through Digital Technologies.- Implementation and Innovation in the Area of Independent Mobility through Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- AccessibleMaps: Addressing Gaps in Maps for People with Visual and Mobility Impairments.- AccessKB: Linked Open Data for Accessible Travel.- Analysis of Indoor Maps Accounting the Needs of People with Impairments.- Considering Time-Critical Barriers in Indoor Routing for People with Disabilities.- 3D Audio Navigation - Feasibility and Requirements for Older Adults.- How to Improve Interaction with a Text Input System.- Text Input with Foot Gestures Using the Myo Armband.- Application of Gesture Interface to Transcription for People with Motor Dysfunction.- Tecla Sound: Combining Single Switch and Speech Access.- Increasing the Efficiency of Text Input in the 8pen Method.- SlideKey: Impact of In-depth Previews for a Predictive Text Entry Method.- Literacy Toy for Enhancement Phonological Awareness: A Longitudinal Study.- Human Movement Analysis for the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Systems and Assistive Devices.- Human Movement Analysis for the Design and Evaluation of Interactive systems and Assistive Devices: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session.- Alzheimer's Garden: Understanding Social Behaviors of Patients with Dementia to Improve Their Quality of Life.- Predicting Wheelchair Stability while Crossing a Curb Using RGB-Depth Vision.- Gait Patterns Monitoring Using Instrumented Forearm Crutches.- Personalized Arm Gesture Recognition Using the HMM-Based Signature Verification Engine.- Digital Design of Aids for Activities of Daily Living.- A Multimodal Communication Aid for Persons with Cerebral Palsy Using Head Movement and Speech Recognition.- Experimental Evaluation of Three Interaction Channels for Accessible Digital Musical Instruments.- iFeedingBot: A Vision-Based Feeding Robotic Arm Prototype Based on Open Source Solution.- Development of Smart-Phone Interfaces for Tongue Controlled Assistive Devices.- Application of Multi Materials Additive Manufacturing Technique In The Design And Manufacturing of Hand Orthoses.- Service and Care Provision in Assistive Environments.- Designing Nostalgic Tangible User Interface Application for Elderly People.- Assessment of Economic Value of Assistive Technologies through Quality-Adjusted Work-Life Years (QAWLY).
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The two-volume set LNCS 12376 and 12377 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2020, held in Lecco, Italy, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 104 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. Included also are 13 introductions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: user centred design and user participation in inclusive R&D; artificial intelligence, accessible and assistive technologies; XR accessibility - learning from the past, addressing real user needs and the technical architecture for inclusive immersive environments; serious and fun games; large-scale web accessibility observatories; accessible and inclusive digital publishing; AT and accessibility for blind and low vision users; Art Karshmer lectures in access to mathematics, science and engineering; tactile graphics and models for blind people and recognition of shapes by touch; and environmental sensing technologies for visual impairment Part II: accessibility of non-verbal communication: making spatial information accessible to people with disabilities; cognitive disabilities and accessibility - pushing the boundaries of inclusion using digital technologies and accessible eLearning environments; ICT to support inclusive education - universal learning design (ULD); hearing systems and accessories for people with hearing loss; mobile health and mobile rehabilitation for people with disabilities: current state, challenges and opportunities; innovation and implementation in the area of independent mobility through digital technologies; how to improve interaction with a text input system; human movement analysis for the design and evaluation of interactive systems and assistive devices; and service and care provision in assistive environments 12 chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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• Session 1: Intelligent Healthcare and Home-care Environments
• Adaptive Collaborative Environment for Vascular Problems Telediagnosis / María Aydeé Sánchez Santana, Jean-Baptiste Aupet, Marie-Laure Betbeder
• Towards Secure e-Health Interoperable Personal Networks / Alexandru Egner, Alexandru Soceanu, Florica Moldoveanu, Carlo Ferrari, Michele Moro
• A New Approach to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases Based on SCORE Charts through Reasoning Methods and Mobile Monitoring / Jesús Fontecha, David Ausín, Federico Castanedo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Ramón Hervás
• PeerAssist: A P2P Platform Supporting Virtual Communities to Assist Independent Living of Senior Citizens / Nikos Passas, Michael Fried, Elias S. Manolakos
• Validation Tool for Smart Screening of Language Disorders in Pediatrics Care / María Luisa Martín Ruiz, Miguel Angel Valero, Iván Pau De Cruz
• A Novel Visualizer of Medical Images by Integrating an Extensible Plugin Framework / Alberto Rey, Alfonso Castro, Jose Carlos Dafonte, Bernardino Arcay
• Mobile System for Medical Control of Chronic Diseases through Intelligent Devices / Vladimir Villarreal, Jesus Manzano, Ramón Hervás, José Bravo
• A Multi-sensor Mobile System Based on Agents for People Monitoring / Pilar Castro Garrido, Irene Luque Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Nieto
• A Novel Software Development Kit (SDK) to Foster Adoption of Health Informatics Standards in Personal Health Device (PHD) Communications / Miguel Martínez-Espronceda, Santiago Led, Maciej Niegowski, Luis Serrano, Luis Cabezas
• Identification of Sounds and Sensing Technology for Home-Care Applications / Héctor Lozano, Inmaculada Hernáez, Javier Camarena, Ibai Díez, Eva Navas
• Modeling a Risk Detection System for Elderly's Home-Care with a Network of Timed Automata / Isabel Navarrete, José A. Rubio, Juan A. Botía, José T. Palma, Francisco J. Campuzano
• User Behavior Shift Detection in Intelligent Environments / Asier Aztiria, Golnaz Farhadi, Hamid Aghajan
• A Hybrid HMM/ANN Model for Activity Recognition in the Home Using Binary Sensors / Fco. Javier Ordóñez, Andrés Duque, Paula de Toledo, Araceli Sanchis
• 3D Object Reconstruction Using Convex Hull Improved by a Peeling Process / Ruben Machucho, Jorge Rivera-Rovelo, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano
• emHEALTH: Online-Platform with Telecare Services to Promote Healthy Lifestyle for People with Multiple Sclerosis / Gonzalo Eguíluz, Begoña García Zapirain, Amaia Méndez Zorrilla
• Pathological Vocal Folds Quantitative Parameters Exchange Using HL7 Standard / Amaia Méndez Zorrilla, Begoña García Zapirain.

• Session 2: AAL Environments
• MonAMI: Mainstream on Ambient Intelligence. Scaled Field Trial Experience in a Spanish Geriatric Residence / Alejandro Ibarz, Jorge L. Falcó, Esteban Vaquerizo, Luis Lain, Jose Ignacio Artigas
• MonAMI: Economic Impact of Mainstream AAL Open Platform in Home Care / Alejandro Ibarz, Jorge L. Falcó, Esteban Vaquerizo, Luis Lain, Jose Ignacio Artigas
• Authentication and Authorization in Ambient Assisting Living Applications: An Approach for UniversAAL / Pablo Antón, Antonio Muñoz, Antonio Maña
• Could Virtual Reality Be an Effective Tool to Combat Obesity and Sedentariness in Children? Results from Two Research Studies / Jaime Guixeres, Ausias Cebolla, Julio Alvarez, Juan Francisco Lison, Laura Cantero
• Metaphorical Design of Feedback Interfaces in Activity-Aware Ambient Assisted-Living Applications / Daniel Pinske, Benjamin Weyers, Wolfram Luther, Torsten Stevens
• Common-Sense Knowledge for a Computer Vision System for Human Action Recognition / Maria J. Santofimia, Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon, Jean-Christophe Nebel
• Residential Care Home Awareness / Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro, Victor M.R. Penichet, Maria-Dolores Lozano
• An Ubiquitous Game for Providing Emotional Support to Hospitalized Children / Ramon Cruzat, Sergio F. Ochoa, Luis A. Guerrero.

• Session 3: Sensing and Monitoring
• A Wearable Electrocardiogram Recorder (ECG) Using ISO / IEEE 11073 Interoperability Standard / Santiago Led, Miguel Martínez-Espronceda, Javier Redondo, Alfonso Baquero
• Ubiquitous Tele-monitoring Kit (UTK): Measuring Physiological Signals Anywhere at Anytime / Carlos Marcos Lagunar, Carlos Cavero Barca, Ana María Quintero Padrón, Xavier Planes
• Modular Hardware Design and Realization for Vital Signs Monitoring / Jan Havlík, Lenka Lhotská, Jakub Parák, Matouš Pokorný, Jan Dvořak, Zdeněk Horčík
• An Study on Re-identification in RGB-D Imagery / Javier Lorenzo-Navarro, Modesto Castrillón-Santana, Daniel Hernández-Sosa
• Offline and Online Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices Using Accelerometer Data / Andrés Duque, Fco. Javier Ordóñez, Paula de Toledo, Araceli Sanchis
• Human Activity Recognition on Smartphones Using a Multiclass Hardware-Friendly Support Vector Machine / Davide Anguita, Alessandro Ghio, Luca Oneto, Xavier Parra, Jorge L. Reyes-Ortiz
• Gait Quality Monitoring Using an Arbitrarily Oriented Smartphone / Oscar Ambres, Gracian Trivino
• Ambient Sensor System for Freezing of Gait Detection by Spatial Context Analysis / Boris Takač, Andreu Català, Daniel Rodríguez, Wei Chen, Matthias Rauterberg
• Multiple Structured Light-Based Depth Sensors for Human Motion Analysis: A Review / Kyis Essmaeel, Luigi Gallo, Ernesto Damiani, Giuseppe De Pietro, Albert Dipandà
• YOAPY: A Data Aggregation and Pre-processing Module for Enabling Continuous Healthcare Monitoring in the Internet of Things / Antonio J. Jara, David Fernández, Pablo López, Miguel A. Zamora, Leandro Marin
• Multiprotocol Android Application for Smart Control and Monitoring in Buildings / Jesús Ángel Heras, Guillermo del Campo, César Gómez, Iris Galloso, Carmen Lastres.

• Session 4: Human-Computer Interaction at Assistive Environments
• I Feel You: Towards Affect-Sensitive Domotic Spoken Conversational Agents / Syaheerah Lebai Lutfi, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Andrés Casanova-García
• Evaluation of Emerging Audio Description Systems for Broadcast TV / Anna Vilaro, Aitor Rodriguez-Alsina, Pilar Orero, Jordi Carrabina
• Implementing Shared Displays: A Tool for Smooth Integration of Large-Screen TVs and Mobile Devices / Christian Berkhoff, Sergio F. Ochoa, José A. Pino, Jesús Favela, Jonice Oliveira
• User Experience of Elders and Relatives in a Collaborative Cognitive Stimulation Tool / Alberto L. Morán, Victoria Meza-Kubo
• Discovering the Social Interaction Patterns of Younger and Older Facebook Users / Darren Quinn, Liming Chen, Maurice Mulvenna
• Adapting Social and Intelligent Environments to Support People with Special Needs / Xavier Alamán, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Zoraida Callejas, Javier Gómez
• The Impact of Introducing Therapeutic Robots in Hospital's Organization / Cecilia Yu Chung Chang, Marta Díaz, Cecilio Angulo
• Evaluation of an Inclusive Smart Home Technology System / Judit Casacuberta, Fausto Sainz, Jaisiel Madrid.

• Session 5: Semantic Modeling for Realizing AAL
• Towards Ubiquitous User Modeling Interoperability for Dealing with Overweight and Obesity / María de Lourdes Guadalupe Martínez-Villaseñor, Miguel González-Mendoza
• TURAMBAR: An Approach to Deal with Uncertainty in Semantic Environments / David Ausín, Federico Castanedo, Diego López-de-Ipiña
• Intervention Tailoring in AAL Systems for Elders with Dementia Using Ontologies / René F. Navarro, Marcela D. Rodríguez, Jesús Favela
• Linguistic Description of Human Activity Based on Mobile Phone's Accelerometers / Daniel Sanchez-Valdes, Luka Eciolaza, Gracian Trivino
• Semantic Based Self-configuration Approach for Social Robots in Health Care Environments / Gorka Azkune, Pablo Orduña, Xabier Laiseca, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Miguel Loitxate
• Context-Aware Generation and Adaptive Execution of Daily Living Care Pathways / Inmaculada Sánchez-Garzón, Gonzalo Milla-Millán, Juan Fernández-Olivares
• EmotionContext: User Emotion Dataset Using Smartphones / Gonzalo Blázquez Gil, Antonio Berlanga, José M. Molina
• Session 6: Key Application Domains
• A Model to Develop Frailty Diagnosis Tools through Mobile Devices and a Service-Oriented Approach / Jesús Fontecha, Ramón Hervás, José Bravo, Fco. Javier Navarro
• Personal Ambient Intelligent Reminder for People with Cognitive Disabilities / Leila S. Shafti, Pablo Alfonso Haya, Manuel García-Herranz, Xavier Alamán
• JeWheels: Kinect Based Serious Game Aimed at Wheelchair Users / Zelai Sáenz de Urturi, Amaia Méndez Zorilla, Begoña García Zapirain
• AngryEmail? Emotion-Based E-mail Tool Adaptation / Rosa M. Carro, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Alvaro Ortigosa, Gorka Guardiola
• New Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Based on Automatic Spontaneous Speech Analysis and Emotional Temperature / Karmele López-de-Ipiña, Jesús B. Alonso, Nora Barroso, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy
• Detection of Motion Disorders of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders / Antonio Coronato, Giuseppe De Pietro
• eFisioTrack: A Telerehabilitation Platform for Monitoring Prescribed Therapeutic Exercises in Orthopaedic Injuries / Joaquín García, Daniel Ruiz, Antonio Soriano, Oscar Marín, Sergio Hernández
• Technological Solution for Improving Time Management Skills Using an Android Application for Children with ADD / Alexander Alonso Molinero, Fernando Jorge Hernández, Amaia Méndez Zorrilla.

• Intelligent healthcare and home-care environments
• AAL environments
• Sensing and monitoring
• Human-computer interaction at assistive environments
• Semantic modeling for realizing AAL
• Application domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2012, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in December 2012. The 58 research papers were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as intelligent healthcare and home-care environments, AAL environments, sensing and monitoring, human-computer interaction at assistive environments, semantic modeling for realizing AAL, and application domains.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Towards a Visual Speech Learning System for the Deaf by Matching Dynamic Lip Shapes / Shizhi Chen, D. Michael Quintian and YingLi Tian
• Teaching Support Software for Hearing Impaired Students Who Study Computer Operation: SynchroniZed Key Points Indication Tool: SZKIT / Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Suzuki and Daisuke Wakatsuki
• The Hybrid Book -- One Document for All in the Latest Development / Petr Hladík and Tomáš Gůra
• Dealing with Changes in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Higher Education / Andrea Petz and Klaus Miesenberger
• Putting the Disabled Student in Charge: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Lisa Featherstone and Simon Ball
• Biblus -- A Digital Library to Support Integration of Visually Impaired in Mainstream Education / Lars Ballieu Christensen and Tanja Stevns
• Alternative Approaches to Alternative Formats -- Changing Expectations by Challenging Myths / Alistair McNaught and Lisa Featherstone
• Access Toolkit for Education / Mike Wald, E.A. Draffan, Russell Newman, Sebastian Skuse and Chris Phethean
• Community-Based Participatory Approach: Students as Partners in Educational Accessible Technology Research / Poorna Kushalnagar, Benjamin Williams and Raja S. Kushalnagar
• Applying New Interaction Paradigms to the Education of Children with Special Educational Needs / Paloma Cantón, Ángel L. González, Gonzalo Mariscal and Carlos Ruiz.

• InStep: A Video Database Assessment Tool / Fern Faux, David Finch and Lisa Featherstone
• SCRIBE: A Model for Implementing Robobraille in a Higher Education Institution / Lars Ballieu Christensen, Sean J. Keegan and Tanja Stevns
• Identifying Barriers to Collaborative Learning for the Blind / Wiebke Köhlmann
• Deaf and Hearing Students' Eye Gaze Collaboration / Raja S. Kushalnagar, Poorna Kushalnagar and Jeffrey B. Pelz
• The Musibraille Project -- Enabling the Inclusion of Blind Students in Music Courses / José Antonio Borges and Dolores Tomé
• Important New Enhancements to Inclusive Learning Using Recorded Lectures / Mike Wald
• Development of New Auditory Testing Media with Invisible 2-Dimensional Codes for Test-Takers with Print Disabilities / Mamoru Fujiyoshi, Akio Fujiyoshi, Akiko Ohsawa, Toshiaki Aomatsu and Haruhiko Sawazaki
• More Accessible Math: The LEAN Math Notation: / John Gardner and Courtney Christensen
• Accessible Authoring Tool for DAISY Ranging from Mathematics to Others / Katsuhito Yamaguchi and Masakazu Suzuki
• Blind Friendly LaTeX: An Option for Adapting Electronic Documents Containing Mathematical Text / Wanda Gonzúrová and Pavel Hrabák
• A System for Matching Mathematical Formulas Spoken during a Lecture with Those Displayed on the Screen for Use in Remote Transcription / Yoshinori Takeuchi, Hironori Kawaguchi, Noboru Ohnishi, Daisuke Wakatsuki and Hiroki Minagawa
• Supporting Braille Learning and Uses by Adapting Transcription to User's Needs / Bruno Mascret, Alain Mille and Vivien Guillet.

• A Non-visual Electronic Workspace for Learning Algebra / Nancy Alajarmeh and Enrico Pontelli
• Interaction Design for the Resolution of Linear Equations in a Multimodal Interface / Silvia Fajardo-Flores and Dominique Archambault
• Development of Software for Automatic Creation of Embossed Graphs: Comparison of Non-visual Data Presentation Methods and Development Up-to-Date / Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi and Masaki Nakagawa
• Expression Rules of Directed Graphs for Non-visual Communication / Ryoji Fukuda
• How to Make Unified Modeling Language Diagrams Accessible for Blind Students / Karin Müller
• AutOMathic Blocks Usability Testing Phase One / Yonatan Breiter, Arthur Karshmer and Judith Karshmer
• MathInBraille Online Converter / Klaus Miesenberger, Mario Batusic, Peter Heumader and Bernhard Stöger
• The Effects of Teaching Mathematics to Students with Disabilities Using Multimedia Computer-Assisted Instruction Coupled with ARCS Model / Chen-Tang Hou and Chu-Lung Wu
• Information Needs Related to ICT-Based Assistive Solutions / Renzo Andrich, Valerio Gower and Sabrina Vincenti
• The European Assistive Technology Information Portal (EASTIN): Improving Usability through Language Technologies / Valerio Gower, Renzo Andrich, Andrea Agnoletto, Petra Winkelmann and Thomas Lyhne, et al.
• Use of Assistive Technology in Workplaces of Employees with Physical and Cognitive Disabilities / Kirsi Jääskeläinen and Nina Nevala.

• Multimodal Guidance System for Improving Manual Skills in Disabled People / Mario Covarrubias, Elia Gatti, Alessandro Mansutti, Monica Bordegoni and Umberto Cugini
• Identifying Barriers to Accessibility in Qatar / Erik Zetterström
• NCBI and Digital Literacy: A Case Study / Denise Leahy and Stuart Lawler
• A User-Friendly Virtual Guide for Post-Rehabilitation Support Following Stroke / Sascha Sommer, Matthias Bartels, Martina Friessem and Joachim Zülch
• Musicking Tangibles for Empowerment / Birgitta Cappelen and Anders-Petter Andersson
• RHYME: Musicking for All / Harald Holone and Jo Herstad
• Enhancing Audio Description: A Value Added Approach / Jack Sade, Komal Naz and Malgorzata Plaza
• Triple Helix -- In Action? / Niels Henrik Helms and Susanne Tellerup
• Virtual User Models for Designing and Using of Inclusive Products: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Yehya Mohamad, Manfred Dangelmaier, Matthias Peissner, Pradipta Biswas and Carlos A. Velasco
• Creative Design for Inclusion Using Virtual User Models / Markus Modzelewski, Michael Lawo, Pierre Kirisci, Joshue O. Connor and Antoinette Fennell, et al.
• A Methodology for Generating Virtual User Models of Elderly and Disabled for the Accessibility Assessment of New Products / Nikolaos Kaklanis, Konstantinos Moustakas and Dimitrios Tzovaras
• VERITAS Approach for Parameterization of Psychological and Behavioral Models / Ana María Navarro, Juan Bautista Mocholí and Juan Carlos Naranjo.

• Integration of a Regular Application into a User Interface Adaptation Engine in the MyUI Project / Alejandro García, Jesús Sánchez, Víctor Sánchez and José Alberto Hernández
• Using Annotated Task Models for Accessibility Evaluation / Ivo Malý, Jiří Bittner and Pavel Slavík
• Web Accessibility in Advanced Technologies: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Shadi Abou-Zahra, Konstantinos Votis and Karel Van Isacker
• The eAccess+ Network: Enhancing the Take-Up of eAccessibility in Europe / Klaus Miesenberger, Eric Velleman, David Crombie, Helen Petrie and Jenny S. Darzentas, et al.
• A Method for Generating CSS to Improve Web Accessibility for Old Users / Jesia Zakraoui and Wolfgang Zagler
• Implementing Web Accessibility: The MIPAW Approach / Jean-Pierre Villain, Olivier Nourry, Dominique Burger and Denis Boulay
• Accessibility of Dynamic Adaptive Web TV Applications / Daniel Costa, Nádia Fernandes, Carlos Duarte and Luís Carriço
• Ontology Based Middleware for Ranking and Retrieving Information on Locations Adapted for People with Special Needs / Kevin Alonso, Naiara Aginako, Javier Lozano and Igor G. Olaizola
• Automatic Color Improvement of Web Pages with Time Limited Operators / Sébastien Aupetit, Alina Mereuţă and Mohamed Slimane
• Improving Web Accessibility for Dichromat Users through Contrast Preservation / Alina Mereuţă, Sébastien Aupetit and Mohamed Slimane.

• Sociological Issues of Inclusive Web Design: The German Web 2.0 Accessibility Survey / Michael Pieper
• Online Shopping Involving Consumers with Visual Impairments -- A Qualitative Study / Elisabeth Fuchs and Christine Strauss
• Website Accessibility Metrics: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Shadi Abou-Zahra
• Integrating Manual and Automatic Evaluations to Measure Accessibility Barriers / Paola Salomoni, Silvia Mirri, Ludovico A. Muratori and Matteo Battistelli
• Assessing the Effort of Repairing the Accessibility of Web Sites / Nádia Fernandes and Luís Carriço
• Lexical Quality as a Measure for Textual Web Accessibility / Luz Rello and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
• Accessibility Testing of a Healthy Lifestyles Social Network / Cecília Sík Lányi, Eszter Nagy and Gergely Sik
• Following the WCAG 2.0 Techniques: Experiences from Designing a WCAG 2.0 Checking Tool / Annika Nietzio, Mandana Eibegger, Morten Goodwin and Mikael Snaprud
• Entertainment Software Accessibility: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Dominique Archambault and Roland Ossmann
• Assessment of Universal Design Principles for Analyzing Computer Games' Accessibility / Moyen Mohammad Mustaquim
• One Way of Bringing Final Year Computer Science Student World to the World of Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Case Study / Isabel M. Gómez, Rafael Cabrera, Juan Ojeda, Pablo García and Alberto J. Molina, et al.

• Making the PlayStation 3 Accessible with AsTeRICS / Roland Ossmann, David Thaller, Gerhard Nussbaum, Christoph Veigl and Christoph Weiss
• Creating an Entertaining and Informative Music Visualization / Michael Pouris and Deborah I. Fels
• Music at Your Fingertips: Stimulating Braille Reading by Association with Sound / Felix Grützmacher
• Improving Game Accessibility with Vibrotactile-Enhanced Hearing Instruments / Bernd Tessendorf, Peter Derleth, Manuela Feilner, Daniel Roggen and Thomas Stiefmeier, et al.
• An OCR-Enabled Digital Comic Books Viewer / Christophe Ponsard, Ravi Ramdoyal and Daniel Dziamski
• Spe-Ler: Serious Gaming for Youngsters with Intellectual Disabilities / Joan De Boeck, Jo Daems and Jan Dekelver
• An Accessibility Checker for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org Writer / Christophe Strobbe, Bert Frees and Jan Engelen
• Visualization of Non-verbal Expressions in Voice for Hearing Impaired: Ambient Font and Onomatopoeic Subsystem / Hidetaka Nambo, Shuichi Seto, Hiroshi Arai, Kimikazu Sugimori and Yuko Shimomura, et al.
• XML-Based Formats and Tools to Produce Braille Documents / Alex Bernier and Dominique Burger
• Japanese Text Presentation System for Pupils with Reading Difficulties: Evaluation in Presentation Styles and Character Sets Changes without Reading Difficulties / Shinjiro Murayama and Kyota Aoki
• Development of a DAISY Player That Utilizes a Braille Display for Document Structure Presentation and Navigation / Kazunori Minatani.

• Acce-Play: Accessibility in Cinemas / Alexandre Paz, Mari Luz Guenaga and Andoni Eguíluz
• Automatic Simplification of Spanish Text for e-Accessibility / Stefan Bott and Horacio Saggion
• Can Computer Representations of Music Enhance Enjoyment for Individuals Who Are Hard of Hearing? / David Fourney
• Assistive Photography / Luděk Bártek and Ondřej Lapáček
• The LIA Project -- Libri Italiani Accessibili / Cristina Mussinelli
• Inclusion by Accessible Social Media: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Harald Holone
• The Use of Multimedia to Rehabilitate Students and Release Talents / Luciana Maria Depieri Branco Freire
• Use of Social Media by People with Visual Impairments: Usage Levels, Attitudes and Barriers / Kristin Skeide Fuglerud, Ingvar Tjøstheim, Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson and Morten Tollefsen
• User Testing of Social Media -- Methodological Considerations / Oystein Dale, Therese Drivenes, Morten Tollefsen and Arthur Reinertsen
• Designing User Interfaces for Social Media Driven Digital Preservation and Information Retrieval / Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Efstratios Tzoannos, Pepi Stavropoulou, Georgios Kouroupetroglou and Alexandros Pino
• PDF/UA -- A New Era for Document Accessibility: Understanding, Managing and Implementing the ISO Standard PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility): Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Olaf Drümmer and Markus Erle.

• PDF/UA (ISO 14289-1) -- Applying WCAG 2.0 Principles to the World of PDF Documents / Olaf Drümmer
• Mainstreaming the Creation of Accessible PDF Documents by a Rule-Based Transformation from Word to PDF / Roberto Bianchetti, Markus Erle and Samuel Hofer
• Developing Text Customisation Functionality Requirements of PDF Reader and Other User Agents / Shawn Lawton Henry
• Using Layout Applications for Creation of Accessible PDF: Technical and Mental Obstacles When Creating PDF/UA from Adobe Indesign CS 5.5 / Olaf Drümmer
• Validity and Semantics -- Two Essential Parts of a Backbone for an Automated PDF/UA Compliance Check for PDF Documents / Markus Erle and Samuel Hofer
• Two Software Plugins for the Creation of Fully Accessible PDF Documents Based on a Flexible Software Architecture / Alireza Darvishy, Thomas Leemann and Hans-Peter Hutter
• Privacy Preserving Automatic Fall Detection for Elderly Using RGBD Cameras / Chenyang Zhang, Yingli Tian and Elizabeth Capezuti
• The Proof of Concept of a Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living at Home / Lucia Pigini, David Facal, Alvaro Garcia, Michael Burmester and Renzo Andrich
• Task Complexity and User Model Attributes: An Analysis of User Model Attributes for Elderly Drivers / Thomas Grill, Sebastian Osswald and Manfred Tscheligi.

• AALuis, a User Interface Layer That Brings Device Independence to Users of AAL Systems / Christopher Mayer, Martin Morandell, Matthias Gira, Kai Hackbarth and Martin Petzold, et al.
• Comparison between Single-touch and Multi-touch Interaction for Older People / Guillaume Lepicard and Nadine Vigouroux
• Online Social Networks and Older People / Guillermo Prieto and Denise Leahy
• Break the Bricks Serious Game for Stroke Patients / Tamás Dömők, Veronika Szűcs, Erika László and Cecília Sík Lányi
• Development of a Broadcast Sound Receiver for Elderly Persons / Tomoyasu Komori, Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Takou and Tohru Takagi, et al.
• Complexity versus Page Hierarchy of a GUI for Elderly Homecare Applications / Mustafa Torun, Tim van Kasteren, Ozlem Durmaz Incel and Cem Ersoy
• Benefits and Hurdles for Older Adults in Intergenerational Online Interactions / Verena Fuchsberger, Wolfgang Sellner, Christiane Moser and Manfred Tscheligi
• kommTUi: Designing Communication for Elderly / Wolfgang Spreicer, Lisa Ehrenstrasser and Hilda Tellioğlu
• Reducing the Entry Threshold of AAL Systems: Preliminary Results from Casa Vecchia / Gerhard Leitner, Anton Josef Fercher, Alexander Felfernig and Martin Hitz.

The two-volume set LNCS 7382 and 7383 constiutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2012, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2012. The 147 revised full papers and 42 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers included in the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: universal learning design; putting the disabled student in charge: user focused technology in education; access to mathematics and science; policy and service provision; creative design for inclusion, virtual user models for designing and using inclusive products; web accessibility in advanced technologies, website accessibility metrics; entertainment software accessibility; document and media accessibility; inclusion by accessible social media; a new era for document accessibility: understanding, managing and implementing the ISO standard PDF/UA; and human-computer interaction and usability for elderly.

• A Multimodal Approach to Accessible Web Content on Smartphones / Lars Emil Knudsen and Harald Holone
• Mobile Vision as Assistive Technology for the Blind: An Experimental Study / Roberto Manduchi
• Camera-Based Signage Detection and Recognition for Blind Persons / Shuihua Wang and Yingli Tian
• The Crosswatch Traffic Intersection Analyzer: A Roadmap for the Future / James M. Coughlan and Huiying Shen
• GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as a Navigation System for the Visually Impaired / Jesus Zegarra and René Farcy
• Visual Nouns for Indoor/Outdoor Navigation / Edgardo Molina, Zhigang Zhu and Yingli Tian
• Towards a Real-Time System for Finding and Reading Signs for Visually Impaired Users / Huiying Shen and James M. Coughlan
• User Requirements for Camera-Based Mobile Applications on Touch Screen Devices for Blind People / Yoonjung Choi and Ki-Hyung Hong
• A Route Planner Interpretation Service for Hard of Hearing People / Mehrez Boulares and Mohamed Jemni
• Translating Floor Plans into Directions / Martin Spindler, Michael Weber, Denise Prescher, Mei Miao and Gerhard Weber, et al.
• Harnessing Wireless Technologies for Campus Navigation by Blind Students and Visitors / Tracey J. Mehigan and Ian Pitt
• Eyesight Sharing in Blind Grocery Shopping: Remote P2P Caregiving through Cloud Computing / Vladimir Kulyukin, Tanwir Zaman, Abhishek Andhavarapu and Aliasgar Kutiyanawala
• Assessment Test Framework for Collecting and Evaluating Fall-Related Data Using Mobile Devices / Stefan Almer, Josef Kolbitsch, Johannes Oberzaucher and Martin Ebner
• NAVCOM -- WLAN Communication between Public Transport Vehicles and Smart Phones to Support Visually Impaired and Blind People / Werner Bischof, Elmar Krajnc, Markus Dornhofer and Michael Ulm
• Mobile-Type Remote Captioning System for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing People and the Experience of Remote Supports after the Great East Japan Earthquake / Shigeki Miyoshi, Sumihiro Kawano, Mayumi Shirasawa, Kyoko Isoda and Michiko Hasuike, et al.

• Handheld "App" Offering Visual Support to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) / Bogdan Zamfir, Robert Tedesco and Brian Reichow
• Cloud-Based Assistive Speech-Transcription Services / Zdenek Bumbalek, Jan Zelenka and Lukas Kencl
• Developing a Voice User Interface with Improved Usability for People with Dysarthria / Yumi Hwang, Daejin Shin, Chang-Yeal Yang, Seung-Yeun Lee and Jin Kim, et al.
• Wearable Range-Vibrotactile Field: Design and Evaluation / Frank G. Palmer, Zhigang Zhu and Tony Ro
• System Supporting Speech Perception in Special Educational Needs Schoolchildren / Adam Kupryjanow, Piotr Suchomski, Piotr Odya and Andrzej Czyzewski
• Designing a Mobile Application to Record ABA Data / Silvia Artoni, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Claudia Fenili and Barbara Leporini, et al.
• Creating Personas with Disabilities / Trenton Schulz and Kristin Skeide Fuglerud
• Eye Controlled Human Computer Interaction for Severely Motor Disabled Children: Two Clinical Case Studies / Mojca Debeljak, Julija Ocepek and Anton Zupan
• Gravity Controls for Windows / Peter Heumader, Klaus Miesenberger and Gerhard Nussbaum
• Addressing Accessibility Challenges of People with Motor Disabilities by Means of AsTeRICS: A Step by Step Definition of Technical Requirements / Alvaro García-Soler, Unai Diaz-Orueta, Roland Ossmann, Gerhard Nussbaum and Christoph Veigl, et al.
• Indoor and Outdoor Mobility for an Intelligent Autonomous Wheelchair / C.T. Lin, Craig Euler, Po-Jen Wang and Ara Mekhtarian
• Comparing the Accuracy of a P300 Speller for People with Major Physical Disability / Alexander Lechner, Rupert Ortner, Fabio Aloise, Robert Prückl and Francesca Schettini, et al.
• Application of Robot Suit HAL to Gait Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients: A Case Study / Kanako Yamawaki, Ryohei Ariyasu, Shigeki Kubota, Hiroaki Kawamoto and Yoshio Nakata, et al.

• Sign 2.0: ICT for Sign Language Users: Information Sharing, Interoperability, User-Centered Design and Collaboration: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session / Liesbeth Pyfers
• Toward Developing a Very Big Sign Language Parallel Corpus / Achraf Othman, Zouhour Tmar and Mohamed Jemni
• Czech Sign Language -- Czech Dictionary and Thesaurus On-Line / Jan Fikejs and Tomáš Sklenák
• The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf / Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, John Glauert and Richard Bowden, et al.
• Sign Language Multimedia Based Interaction for Aurally Handicapped People / Matjaž Debevc, Ines Kožuh, Primož Kosec, Milan Rotovnik and Andreas Holzinger
• Meeting Support System for the Person with Hearing Impairment Using Tablet Devices and Speech Recognition / Makoto Kobayashi, Hiroki Minagawa, Tomoyuki Nishioka and Shigeki Miyoshi
• Dubbing of Videos for Deaf People -- A Sign Language Approach / Franz Niederl, Petra Busswald, Georg Tschare, Jürgen Hackl and Josef Philipp
• Towards a 3D Signing Avatar from SignWriting Notation / Yosra Bouzid, Maher Jbali, Oussama El Ghoul and Mohamed Jemni
• Sign Language Computer-Aided Education: Exploiting GSL Resources and Technologies for Web Deaf Communication / Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou and Athanasia-Lida Dimou
• SignMedia: Interactive English Learning Resource for Deaf Sign Language Users Working in the Media Industry / Luzia Gansinger
• SignAssess -- Online Sign Language Training Assignments via the Browser, Desktop and Mobile / Christopher John
• Towards General Cross-Platform CCF Based Multi-modal Language Support / Mats Lundälv and Sandra Derbring
• Developing an Augmentative Mobile Communication System / Juan Bautista Montalvá Colomer, María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez, Silvia de los Ríos Pérez, Miguel Páramo del Castrillo and María Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer.

• The Korean Web-Based AAC Board Making System / Saerom Choi, Heeyeon Lee and Ki-Hyung Hong
• SymbolChat: Picture-Based Communication Platform for Users with Intellectual Disabilities / Tuuli Keskinen, Tomi Heimonen, Markku Turunen, Juha-Pekka Rajaniemi and Sami Kauppinen
• Developing AAC Message Generating Training System Based on Core Vocabulary Approach / Ming-Chung Chen, Cheng-Chien Chen, Chien-Chuan Ko, Hwa-Pey Wang and Shao-Wun Chen
• New Features in the VoxAid Communication Aid for Speech Impaired People / Bálint Tóth, Péter Nagy and Géza Németh
• AAC Vocabulary Standardisation and Harmonisation: The CCF and BCI Experiences / Mats Lundälv and Sandra Derbring
• Speaking and Understanding Morse Language, Speech Technology and Autism / András Arató, Norbert Markus and Zoltan Juhasz
• Reverse-Engineering Scanning Keyboards / Foad Hamidi and Melanie Baljko
• A Communication System on Smart Phones and Tablets for Non-verbal Children with Autism / Harini Sampath, Bipin Indurkhya and Jayanthi Sivaswamy
• Assessment of Biosignals for Managing a Virtual Keyboard / Manuel Merino, Isabel Gómez, Alberto J. Molina and Kevin Guzman
• Applying the Principles of Experience-Dependent Neural Plasticity: Building up Language Abilities with ELA®-Computerized Language Modules / Jacqueline Stark, Christiane Pons, Ronald Bruckner, Beate Fessl and Rebecca Janker, et al.
• Assistive Technology: Writing Tool to Support Students with Learning Disabilities / Onintra Poobrasert and Alongkorn Wongteeratana
• Communication Access for a Student with Multiple Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approach / Frances Layman, Cathryn Crowle and John Ravenscroft
• Multimedia Advocacy: A New Way of Self Expression and Communication for People with Intellectual Disabilities: / Gosia Kwiatkowska, Thomas Tröbinger, Karl Bäck and Peter Williams
• How Long Is a Short Sentence? -- A Linguistic Approach to Definition and Validation of Rules for Easy-to-Read Material / Annika Nietzio, Birgit Scheer and Christian Bühler
• CAPKOM -- Innovative Graphical User Interface Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities / Andrea Petz, Nicoleta Radu and Markus Lassnig.

• A Real-Time Sound Recognition System in an Assisted Environment / Héctor Lozano, Inmaculada Hernáez, Javier Camarena, Ibai Díez and Eva Navas
• Gestures Used by Intelligent Wheelchair Users / Dimitra Anastasiou and Christoph Stahl
• Augmented Reality Based Environment Design Support System for Home Renovation / Yoshiyuki Takahashi and Hiroko Mizumura
• Fall Detection on Embedded Platform Using Kinect and Wireless Accelerometer / Michal Kepski and Bogdan Kwolek
• Controlled Natural Language Sentence Building as a Model for Designing User Interfaces for Rule Editing in Assisted Living Systems -- A User Study / Henrike Gappa, Gaby Nordbrock, Yehya Mohamad, Jaroslav Pullmann and Carlos A. Velasco
• MonAMI Platform in Elderly Household Environment: Architecture, Installation, Implementation, Trials and Results / Dušan Šimšík, Alena Galajdová, Daniel Siman, Juraj Bujňák and Marianna Andrášová, et al.
• Modeling Text Input for Single-Switch Scanning / I. Scott MacKenzie
• DualScribe: A Keyboard Replacement for Those with Friedreich's Ataxia and Related Diseases / Torsten Felzer, I. Scott MacKenzie and Stephan Rinderknecht
• Easier Mobile Phone Input Using the JusFone Keyboard / Oystein Dale and Trenton Schulz
• Automatic Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Based on Selected Phonetic Quality Features / Myung Jong Kim and Hoirin Kim
• Adaptation of AAC to the Context Communication: A Real Improvement for the User Illustration through the VITIPI Word Completion / Philippe Boissière, Nadine Vigouroux, Mustapha Mojahid and Frédéric Vella
• Tackling the Acceptability of Freely Optimized Keyboard Layout / Bruno Merlin, Mathieu Raynal and Heleno Fülber
• Measuring Performance of a Predictive Keyboard Operated by Humming / Ondřej Poláček, Adam J. Sporka and Zdeněk Míkovec.

• Dysarthric Speech Recognition Error Correction Using Weighted Finite State Transducers Based on Context-Dependent Pronunciation Variation / Woo Kyeong Seong, Ji Hun Park and Hong Kook Kim
• Text Entry Competency for Students with Learning Disabilities in Grade 5 to 6 / Ting-Fang Wu and Ming-Chung Chen
• Vision SenS / Berenice Machuca Bautista, José Alfredo Padilla Medina and Francisco Javier Sánchez Marín
• Computer-Aided Design of Tactile Models: Taxonomy and Case Studies / Andreas Reichinger, Moritz Neumüller, Florian Rist, Stefan Maierhofer and Werner Purgathofer
• Three-Dimensional Model Fabricated by Layered Manufacturing for Visually Handicapped Persons to Trace Heart Shape / Kenji Yamazawa, Yoshinori Teshima, Yasunari Watanabe, Yuji Ikegami and Mamoru Fujiyoshi, et al.
• Viable Haptic UML for Blind People / Claudia Loitsch and Gerhard Weber
• Non-visual Presentation of Graphs Using the Novint Falcon / Reham Alabbadi, Peter Blanchfield and Maria Petridou
• Towards a Geographic Information System Facilitating Navigation of Visually Impaired Users / Slim Kammoun, Marc J. -M. Macé, Bernard Oriola and Christophe Jouffrais
• Combination of Map-Supported Particle Filters with Activity Recognition for Blind Navigation / Bernhard Schmitz, Attila Györkös and Thomas Ertl
• AccessibleMap: Web-Based City Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired / Höckner Klaus, Daniele Marano, Julia Neuschmid, Manfred Schrenk and Wolfgang Wasserburger
• Design and User Satisfaction of Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired People / Anke Brock, Philippe Truillet, Bernard Oriola, Delphine Picard and Christophe Jouffrais
• A Mobile Application Concept to Encourage Independent Mobility for Blind and Visually Impaired Students / Jukka Liimatainen, Markku Häkkinen, Tuula Nousiainen, Marja Kankaanranta and Pekka Neittaanmäki
• Do-It-Yourself Object Identification Using Augmented Reality for Visually Impaired People / Atheer S. Al-Khalifa and Hend S. Al-Khalifa.

• An Assistive Vision System for the Blind That Helps Find Lost Things / Boris Schauerte, Manel Martinez, Angela Constantinescu and Rainer Stiefelhagen
• Designing a Virtual Environment to Evaluate Multimodal Sensors for Assisting the Visually Impaired / Wai L. Khoo, Eric L. Seidel and Zhigang Zhu
• A Segmentation-Based Stereovision Approach for Assisting Visually Impaired People / Hao Tang and Zhigang Zhu
• KinDectect: Kinect Detecting Objects / Atif Khan, Febin Moideen, Juan Lopez, Wai L. Khoo and Zhigang Zhu
• A System Helping the Blind to Get Merchandise Information / Nobuhito Tanaka, Yasunori Doi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Yoshinori Takeuchi and Hiroaki Kudo, et al.
• Accessibility for the Blind on an Open-Source Mobile Platform: MObile Slate Talker (MOST) for Android / Norbert Markus, Szabolcs Malik, Zoltan Juhasz and András Arató
• Accessibility of Android-Based Mobile Devices: A Prototype to Investigate Interaction with Blind Users / Sarah Chiti and Barbara Leporini
• TypeInBraille: Quick Eyes-Free Typing on Smartphones / Sergio Mascetti, Cristian Bernareggi and Matteo Belotti
• Real-Time Display Recognition System for Visually Impaired / Irati Rasines, Pedro Iriondo and Ibai Díez
• A Non-visual Interface for Tasks Requiring Rapid Recognition and Response: An RC Helicopter Control System for Blind People / Kazunori Minatani and Tetsuya Watanabe
• Reaching to Sound Accuracy in the Peri-personal Space of Blind and Sighted Humans / Marc J. -M. Macé, Florian Dramas and Christophe Jouffrais
• Hapto-acoustic Scene Representation / Sebastian Ritterbusch, Angela Constantinescu and Volker Koch
• Efficient Access to PC Applications by Using a Braille Display with Active Tactile Control (ATC) / Siegfried Kipke
• Applications of Optically Actuated Haptic Elements / Branislav Mamojka and Peter Teplický
• Trackable Interactive Multimodal Manipulatives: Towards a Tangible User Environment for the Blind / Muhanad S. Manshad, Enrico Pontelli and Shakir J. Manshad
• Introduction of New Body-Braille Devices and Applications / Satoshi Ohtsuka, Nobuyuki Sasaki, Sadao Hasegawa and Tetsumi Harakawa.

The two-volume set LNCS 7382 and 7383 constiutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2012, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2012. The 147 revised full papers and 42 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers included in the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: portable and mobile systems in assistive technology; assistive technology, HCI and rehabilitation; sign 2.0: ICT for sign language users: information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration; computer-assisted augmentative and alternative communication; easy to Web between science of education, information design and speech technology; smart and assistive environments: ambient assisted living; text entry for accessible computing; tactile graphics and models for blind people and recognition of shapes by touch; mobility for blind and partially sighted people; and human-computer interaction for blind and partially sighted people.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Forensics, IWCF 2010, held in Tokyo, Japan in November 2010. The 16 revised full papers presented together with two invited keynote papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers cover a wide range of current topics in computational forensics including authentication, biometrics, document analysis, multimedia, forensic tool evaluation, character recognition, and forensic verification.

• Keynote
• Human-Computer Interaction and Usability for Elderly (HCI4AGING)
• Design for All: From Idea to Practice
• (Users Need Standards)2
• Users Need Standards Need Users
• Accessibility: Education for Web Design and eLearning
• ACP
• Accessible Content Processing
• Web Accessibility
• Automatic/Manual Evaluation and Authoring Tools
• Web Accessibility
• Quality Control and Best Practice
• People with Disabilities: Software Accessibility
• Entertainment Software Accessibility
• Hearing Impaired, Deaf and DeafBlind People: HCI and Communication
• People with Specific Learning Dificulties
• Easy to Read and HCI
• Blind and Visually Impaired People: Human-Computer Interaction and Access to Graphics
• Access to Mathematics and Science
• Accessible Tourism
• Smart Environments
• Portable and Mobile Systems in Assistive Technology
• Skills vs. Abilities: Alternative Input and Communication Systems
• People with Disabilities: Speech Therapy and Sound Applications
• People with Disabilities: Mobility and Care
• People with Disabilities: Service Provision.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2008, held in Linz, Austria in July 2008. The 190 revised contributions presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions. The papers evaluate how various fields in computer science can contribute to helping people with various kinds of disabilities and impairment.The papers are organized in topical sections on human-computer interaction and usability for elderly, design for all: from idea to practice, users need standards - users need standards need users, accessibility; education for web design and elearning, accessible content processing, web accessibility; automatic/manual evaluation and authoring tools and quality control and best practice, people with disabilities; software accessibility, entertainment software accessibility, hearing impaired, deaf and deafblind people; HCI and communication, people with specific learning difficulties - easy to read and HCI, blind and visually impaired people; HCI and access to graphics, access to mathematics and science, accessible tourism, smart environments, portable and mobile systems in assistive technology, skills vs. abilities; alternative input and communication systems, people with disabilities; and, speech therapy and sound applications, mobility and care, and service provision.
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