Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal
Call for Paper: Media Solutions that Improving Accessibility to Disabled Users

Motivation of Special issue

At present, it is estimated that there are several millions of people
with disabilities worldwide. Focusing on Internet users, the estimated
percentage goes around 10%, a great number of users.

Accessibility as applied to virtual and real environments also
benefits people without disabilities. A key principle is the design of
flexible resources to meet different user needs, preferences and
situations.  Scope of Special Issue

We are seeking, original high innovative researches in the area of
Multimedia (studies and implementations) in order to improve
accessibility to real and virtual scenarios that might be applied to
all kinds of users with disabilities or difficulties when implementing
concrete actions (navigation or interaction with a particular
medium). We need solutions to adapt the environment, products and
services to the final user's needs.

As a major topic, this invited proposal seeks to discuss about
Multimedia (in general) and Usability (in particular), helping to
increase the current levels of Accessibility regarding virtual and
real interactive environments where the disabled community can
participate.

We are seeking research papers, technical reports, dissertation etc
for these interdisciplinary areas.  Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
- Usability and Accessibility.
- Accessible Multimedia.
- Accessibility for all.
- Trends in Disability.
- Person behavior and Interaction Analysis.
- Applications in Virtual Reality, Multimedia and Gaming.
- Technological novelties, evaluations and solutions.
- User-Experience studies and evaluations.
- Human-Centered Computing.
- Human-Computer Interfaces.
- Human Affect Analysis and Affective Computing.
- Perceptual and Multimodal user interfaces.
- Accessible Architecture.

Important Information

o   Submission Deadline : 30 November, 2009
o   First Notification of Acceptance : 20 December, 2009
o   Camera ready submission : 20 January, 2010
o   Final Date of acceptance : 20 February, 2010

 Contact Information
Name : David Fonseca, Oscar Garcia, Eva Villegas, Jaume Duran
Email : fonsi@salle.url.edu
Co-organization: Oscar Garcia, Eva Villegas, Jaume Duran
Emails: oscarg@salle.url.edu, evillegas@salle.url.edu, jaumeduran@ub.edu
University Affiliation : Grup de Recerca en Tecnologies Media
ENGINYERIA I ARQUITECTURA LA SALLE, UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL,
Barcelona, Spain
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.salle.url.edu/MSIADU09/main.html