Preliminary program, subject to smaller changes.
Wednesday, 15. July 2026
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| 10:45–12:30 | Chairs: Paolo Perego, Giuseppe Andreoni, Sara Arlati, Mario Covarrubias Auditory Sensory Substitution for Inclusive Sailing: Real-time Sail Trim Feedback based on Angle of Attack Technology-enhanced Physical Activity In Primary Schools: A Framework For Accessibility And Inclusion AI-Driven Virtual Coach for Immersive Adaptive Cycling Training in Young People with Disabilities Bridging ICF Functioning and the ISO Classification of Assistive Products Using BERT-Based Semantic Mapping | Chairs: Katerine Romeo, Christèle Lecomte Screen Reader Usage, Customization, and Perceived Usability among Persons with Visual Impairments: A Large-Scale Survey in Japan 2F4T Audio Tactile Exploration of an artwork Towards Inclusive Multimedia Representations of an Artwork Design and Implementation of a Drawing-Experience-Based Kansei Development Support System for People with Visual Impairments Beyond the Visible: Multimodal Digital Game in Collaboration with Polish Association of the Blind | Chairs: Reinhard Ruemer, Klaus Miesenberger, Reinhard Koutny Detecting Disability‑Insensitive Language in Scholarly Writing Implementing Alt Text and Extended Descriptions in Digital Publishing Workflow: Patterns and Challenges Mapping Accessibility by Design in Editorial Front-End Development: A Comparative Study Between Norwegian and Italian Educational Publishing Houses Designing for Accessibility: How Inclusive Practices Enhance Usability and Innovation in Educational Publishing Teaching Translation as an Accessibility-Oriented and Interdisciplinary Process: Combining AI Tools, Digital Standards, and AI Supported Localisation | Chairs: Anna Hanane Ajlani, Miriam Massoumzadeh, Melanie Schaur, Reinhard Koutny, Martin Schoefl A Modular Platform for Digital Dyslexia Assessment and Assistive Support Design Of A Mobile Stress Assessment And Management System For Neurodivergent Individuals Designing an Inclusive Application to Support the Daily Activities of People with Cognitive Disabilities: A Long-Term Evaluation Advancing Neurodiversity in Higher Education: Interdisciplinary Support Framework for Dyslexia Decoding the Cognitive Process of Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics Videos: An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Multimedia Design Principles | Inno Area |
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| 13:30–15:30 | Universal and Inclusive Research, Design and Development Chairs: A. Darvishy Robot Design for Children with Disabilities’ play: a Pedagogical Contribution From Stakeholder Voices to Design Requirements: A Co-Creation Protocol for the VoiceKids Approach A Cross-Department, Interdisciplinary Teaching Concept for Co-Creating Assistive Everyday Technologies with People with Disabilities – Insights from a First Implementation Cycle Inclusive Research In Emerging Technologies: Challenges And Recommendations From User Testing When Accessibility Meets AI: Gender Bias in Automated Interaction Systems A Hybrid Technology-Assisted Social-Emotional Learning Model: Integrating Narrative Pedagogy and Digital Scaffolding for Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities | Chairs: David Banes “It Was Frustrating To See These Large Language Models Glitch”: An Exploration of Their Workflows and Products for Accessible User Experiences Design and Preliminary Evaluation of an AI Dialogic Reading System for Children with Developmental Delays: Parents’ Perceptions The Professionals’ Intention to Use an AI-Generated Interview Skills Training System for Individuals with Disabilities Special Education Teachers’ Intention to Use Generative AI to Support Students with Special Needs: A Preliminary TPACK-Based Investigation CAAI: Cognitive Accessibility Analyzer for AI-Generated Images Rescuing History: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Track Sign Language Across Decades of Archival Video | Chairs: Helen Petrie, Gerhard Weber, Anna Bramwell-Dicks Integrating Tactons and Tangibles for Haptification of Spreadsheets Hands-On Interaction with Spreadsheets Multi-modal Sensory Substitution: initial Design and Evaluation of the SoundCeption App Expiration Date Recognition System using YOLO and STN for the Visually Impaired Drag & Speak: A Multimodal Audio-haptic Approach for Arithmetic Operations for Screenreader Users Using Machine Learning to Analyze Accessibility Support in Game Engine Documentation | Chairs: Anna Hanane Ajlani, Miriam Massoumzadeh, Melanie Schaur, Reinhard Koutny, Martin Schoefl Development Of An Educational Robotics Program For Individuals With Intellectual Disability Gaining Presence for Neurodiverse Students in Hybrid Classes Using WebMoti: A Case Study Enhancing Accessibility through Neuroadaptive Assistive Technology: Brain-Based Responses of Children with Dyslexia in Learning Assistance Dog and Robotic Companion Settings Co-Designing and Testing Serious Games for Handwriting Training in Primary School Development of Gamified Audio Learning Application to Support Autonomous Learning of Children with Dyslexia A Multisensory Immersive Book to Support Vocabulary Acquisition for Children at Risk of SLD | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
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| 16:00–17:30 | Chairs: David Fazio The Compliance Paradox: When WCAG-Based Conformance Checks Pass but Government Services Remain Functionally Inaccessible for Users with Executive Function Limitations Making Money Understandable: Exploring Financial Literacy Needs of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Creating a Recreational Environment with VR Technology for Informal Dementia Caregivers Designing Wearables For Safer Living with Dementia — Avoiding Rejection | Chairs: David Banes AI Research and Disabled, Neurodivergent and Deaf Researchers and Other Professionals Older Adults and Generative AI: Exploring Use, Perceptions, and Challenges Assisting the Last Mile with Smart Glasses: Towards User-Centric LLM Prompt Engineering for Visually Impaired People Effectiveness of Gen AI Tools on Identification and Fixation of Accessibility Issues in Productivity Documents | Chairs: Helen Petrie, Gerhard Weber Design Requirements for Accessible Indoor Wayfinding Technologies Supporting People with Mobility Disabilities Smart Wheelchair System for Surface Type Classification and Obstacle Detection Integrating Face Blurring into Vision-Based Indoor Navigation: Privacy-By-Design Navigating Independence: A Survey of Visually Impaired People's Experiences and Needs | Chairs: Anna Hanane Ajlani, Miriam Massoumzadeh, Melanie Schaur, Reinhard Koutny, Martin Schoefl Smart Home, Smarter Support: Evidence-Informed Guidelines for Enhancing Well-Being and Autonomy in Living Environments of Neurodivergent Individuals Sociotechnical Perspectives on Technology-Based Return-to-Work Support for Mental Health Conditions: A Systematic Review Chairs: Virginia Francisco, Rémi Cardon Translating Easy-to-Read Standards into Prompts: An Empirical Study of LLM-based Text Simplification Strategies Prompt-Based Syntactic Adaptation for Easy-to-Read Texts Using Large Language Models | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
Thursday, 16. July 2026
| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Track D | I |
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| 08:30–10:00 | Chairs: Yehya Mohamad, Carlos A Velasco Storytelling Integrated Into A Socially Assistive Robot And Virtual Reality For Speech And Language Therapy Frugal and Explainable AI for Accessible Longitudinal Monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease A Study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Combined with an AI System for Spinal Cord Injury Evaluating Healthcare Staff Perceptions of AI-Enabled Indoor Wayfinding Technologies | Chairs: Mathieu Raynal, Ian Scott MacKenzie Text Entry Using a Scanning Keyboard and Squeezable Bulb Analysis of Conversations in a Robot Café Customer Service Utilizing a Gesture Interface Assessing Sequential Scrolling Strategies in Virtual Reality Mouth Bytes: Prototyping Electronic Musical Instruments Through Embodied, Mouth-Based Interactions | Chairs: Helen Petrie, Gerhard Weber Supporting Accessible Street Crossing For Persons With A Visual Impairment Using A Handheld Traffic Light Detector Design And Calibration Of A Wearable 3D LiDAR For Assistive Navigation Of People With Visual Impairment Beyond Turn-by-Turn: Wall-Trailing Indoor Navigation for Blind Users A Depth-Based Mobility Aid Development Platform For Users With Blindness And Low Vision | Chairs: Virginia Francisco, Rémi Cardon Anaphora Resolution for Spanish Easy-to-Read Narrative Texts: A Comparative Study of Large Language Models Breaking Linguistic Barriers with AI: Eye-Tracking Insights into Accessible Public Texts for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Beyond the Blank Prompt: Co-Designing Accessible Generative AI Interfaces for People with Intellectual Disabilities Accessible GenAI UI Generation with Post-Render Verification | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
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| – | Plenary II Springer Keynote: Katta Spiel proudly sponsored by Springer Nature OCG ICCHP Roland Wagner Award Ceremony Presentation of the ICCHP Young Researchers Consortium (YRC) | ||||
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| 13:00–15:00 | Chairs: Yehya Mohamad, Carlos A Velasco Eliciting Design Knowledge for Care Coordination Through Multi-Actor Eco-Map Comparison : A Single-Case Methodological Study Evidence-based Monitoring of Digital Skills in Long-term Care and Implications for Future Training Care4Skills: Using Unusual Methods to Anticipate Emerging Skill Needs in the Long Time Care Sector Health for All: Digital Health Literacy and Ethics as Foundations for Sustainable Digital Health Solutions Bridging the Support Gap: A Digital Mindfulness and Peer-Support Ecosystem for Parents of Children with Autism in Poland From Care Crisis to Digital Transformation? Digitalization and Assistive Technologies in European Long-Term Care | Chairs: Nataša Rajh, Matjaž Debevc, Reinhard Koutny, Klaus Hoeckner, Klaus Miesenberger Inclusive Design Capability Maturity Framework Digital Accessibility as Meaningful Participation in Technology-Mediated Activities How and When People with Disabilities Participate Across Design Phases in Assistive Technology and ICT Accessibility in UX Design: The Need for Workflow Support and Accessibility Features in Design Tools Reciprocal Information Support for Accessible Live Events: Field Evaluation of a Real-Time Timeline Web App for DHH/BLV and All Participants Making Accessibility Work in Practice: European ICT Accessibility Standards under the European Accessibil-ity Act (EAA) | Chairs: Michaela Hanousková, Svatoslav Ondra, Lukáš Másilko, Karin Müller, Andrea Petz, Thorsten Schwarz Automatic Generation of Audio Descriptions and Tactile Graphics for Function Graphs to Support Visually Impaired Students in University Entrance Examinations Tactile IPA Chart with Audio Feedback for Visually Impaired Students AIDE: Integrating Generative AI and User-Guided Personalization for Accessible STEM Education Lessons Learned for Long-Term Accessibility Studies: A Case Study with Blind and Low Vision Students on a Prototype for Accessing Video Lectures Chairs: Yoshinori Teshima, T. Watanabe, Kazunori Minatani An End-to-End Pipeline to Generate Augmented Tactile Maps from Floor Plans Development of Models for Anatomical Learning for the Visually Impaired: Skull Model, Ventricle and Brainstem Model, Eyeball Model | Chairs: Marion Hersh, Barbara Leporini Audiofunctions+: Interactive Sonification for Inclusive Learning of Function Graphs A Qualitative Study on the Use of ICT and AI by STEM Students and Professionals to Support the Reading of Mathematical Formulas Designing an Accessible Audio-Driven Role-Playing Game for STEM Learning Reducing Interface Message Complexity as Digital Scaffolding: A Study of Mathematical Concept Understanding among Children with Special Educational Needs in Short-Form Video Environments Design and Evaluation of a Video Based Assistive Picture Book for Story Comprehension Support in Preschool Children with Developmental Delays AI-Driven Cognitive Accessibility for People with Non-Visible Disabilities in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework for Inclusive Digital Systems | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
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| 15:30–17:30 | Chairs: Raja Kushalnagar, Sarah Ebling, Matjaž Debevc, Christian Vogler Can Deaf Signers Understand Anonymized MediaPipe Pose Models? Accessible Deaf and Hard of Hearing Hybrid Events in the 2020s Beyond the Touchscreen: Hands-Free Sign Language and Head-Pointing Interfaces for Deaf Interaction with Intelligent Assistants Towards The Preservation Of Caribbean Sign Languages Using AI Communication Needs in Hair Salon Settings: A Comparative Questionnaire-Based Study of Foreigners, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, and Hearing Japanese Clients | Chairs: Nataša Rajh, Matjaž Debevc, Reinhard Koutny, Klaus Hoeckner, Klaus Miesenberger Monitoring Digital Accessibility: a Study of Measuring Tools Adopted by Governmental Initiatives in Different Countries Manual Accessibility Testing Procedures for Mobile Apps: A Comparative Evaluation A Proposed Accessible Cyber Security Support (AcCeSS) Framework Current State of Post-Source Implementation: The Browser Table—Are Browsers Adequately Supporting Accessibility Needs Beyond the Source Improving the Accessibility of Web Tables for Magnifier Users with Annotations and Crumbs | Chairs: Yoshinori Teshima, T. Watanabe, Kazunori Minatani 3D Building Model With Interactive Tactile Maps For Older Adults With Vision Impairments Effectiveness of Tactile Diagrams and 3D Models in Yoga Instructions for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired Using 3D Pens for Creating Personalized Tactile Learning Models for Students with Visual Impairments Smooth, Structured, and Strategic: Hand Movement Proficiency of Visually Impaired Players in Tactile Puzzle Game Tactris Cognitive Maps and Audio-Haptic Game Performance in Individuals with Visual Impairments: A Correlational Study Development of Spatial Haptic-guidance Presentation System for Visually Impaired Individuals and Evaluation of 3D Tactile Perception and Ball-game Situation Transmission | Chairs: Marion Hersh, Barbara Leporini Blind and Visually Impaired Students in Computer Science: Institutional Conditions and Paths Towards Proactive University Support in Austria, Ireland and Slovenia Peer Counselling to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Pupils in Their Transition to Higher Education Context Matters: Comparing What Works for Disabled Students at Spanish & UK Distance Learning Institutions Virtual Reality Adoption Among Special Education Teachers: Explaining the Intention-Behavior Gap From Algorithm To Execution: Enabling Everyone To Engage In Programming Activity Promoting Digital Inclusion via AI-Driven Immersive Platforms: Analyzing Teachers’ Self-Regulated Learning and Adaptive Regulation for Accessible Education | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
| – | ICCHP Reception: In Appreciation of Our Most Valuable Guests Chairs: Klaus Miesenberger, Radek Pavlíček, Helen Petrie The ICCHP reception will take place at the confereonce location.
EAT, DRINK AND NETWORK!!!! | ||||
Friday, 17. July 2026
| Time | Track A | Track B | Track C | Track D | I |
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| 08:30–10:00 | Chairs: Jean Denise Hallewell Haslwanter, Özge Subasi, Paul Panek Recommendations for Age-Friendly Co-Design: A meta-review for practitioners Co-producing a Tool to Measure Meaningful Engagement in Advanced Dementia Age-Related Differences in Tactile Reconstruction: The Role of Internal Models in Visual-Driven Perception Wearable Instrumented Insoles for Continuous Gait Monitoring for Daily-Life Rehabilitation Support | Chairs: E.A. Draffan, David Banes Usability Evaluation of a Web-Based AAC System in School Settings AI-Driven Personalised Symbol Generation for AAC Users: A Framework for Inclusive Communication. GenAAC: Generative AI-based Dynamic AAC Symbol System for Overcoming Limitations of Static Databases Hybrid Intent Classification for AAC: A Multi-Stage LLM Pipeline for Gesture Support in Cerebral Palsy | Chairs: Dominique Archambault, Katsuhito Yamaguchi, Georgios Kouroupetroglou Re-rendering Graphics from Structured Representations Utilizing Large Language Models to Produce Accessible Mathematical Content for Print‑Disabled Students Evaluation of Human and AI-generated Image Descriptions for STEM Charts by Varying Expertise Groups The Current State of AI for Conversion of Mathematics to and from Braille | Chairs: Estella Oncins, Sarah McDonagh, Iris Serrat-Roozen InclusiVRity: Enhancing Learning for Neurodivergent Students Through Immersive VR Social Stories Let’s Engage! Children at Risk for SLD in an Immersive Mixed-Reality Reading Environment Accessibility In VR– Guidelines And Analyses Of Authoring Platforms For VR Learning Environments | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
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| 10:30–12:00 | Chairs: Jean Denise Hallewell Haslwanter, Özge Subasi, Paul Panek Engaging Older Adults through Artefact-Driven Approaches for AI Literacy Development: A Multi-Stakeholder Model for Digital Inclusion Understanding Digital Exclusion Through the Lens of Service Providers Co-Creating Digital Inclusion for Older Adults in the Era of AI | Chairs: E.A. Draffan, David Banes Privacy-Preserving Child Voice TTS for On-Device AAC: A Recording-to-Deployment Protocol From Element to Meaning: A Step-by-Step Approach to Efficient Communication Using Bliss Personalizing Utterances Using the Big Five of SGD Users Development of an AI-Powered Assessment Tool for Communication Support for Children with Severe and Multiple Disabilities | Chairs: Dominique Archambault, Katsuhito Yamaguchi, Georgios Kouroupetroglou Supporting VI learners in Communicating Mathematical Diagrams A Comparison of Four Braille Formats for Mathematics Development and Evaluation of a Geometric Construction Support Application for Visually Impaired Users on Touchscreen Devices Converting Mathematical Notations for Blind People | Chairs: Estella Oncins, Sarah McDonagh, Iris Serrat-Roozen Developing a Prioritised Accessibility Guideline Checklist for XR Applications for Blind and Low-Vision Users A Within-Subjects Evaluation of VR Interface Among Users with Motor, Visual, Auditory, and Neurological Impairments Visually Guiding Focus In VR For Low Vision Users: Four Design Prototypes And Pilot Evaluation | Inno Area Type: Innovation Area |
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| – | Plenary III Digital Accessibility Keynote and Panel Discussion: Čeněk and Alžběta Šašinka organised in cooperation with and moderated by W3C/WAI | ||||
| – | Farewell Party | ||||