Special Thematic Session (Archive)
ICCHP 2024
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Digital technologies offer excellent opportunities for people with and without disabilities to participate in all domains of society, including education, labour market, culture, travel, sports, religion and managing everyday activities. Due to the flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness, which facilitates access to the manifold applications supporting participation, the Human Computer Interface (HCI) can be better adapted…
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Artworks such as paintings or sculptures are accessible mainly through vision (“visual art”). Whilst blind and partially blind (BPB) people are traditionally considered as the primary users of audio description to gain access to art works, several groups also benefit from other alternative solutions, involving other senses, to experience art and enjoy a (multimodal) aesthetic…
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Chairs: E. A. Draffan & David Banes
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Almost all countries are challenged by the aging demographics, as well as by issues that arise during the changes that often come later in life. Digital ecosystems are being developed to ease or remove the burdens of things such as changing homes, living with a new health condition, adapting to a new living environment, transitioning…
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Chairs: Dominique Archambault, Yamaguchi Katsuhito and Georgios Kouroupetroglou
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly improve the lives of people with disabilities (PWD). Indeed, many cutting-edge AI systems, such as automatic speech recognition tools that can caption films for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, or language prediction algorithms that can augment communication for persons with speech or cognitive disabilities, were developed with the…