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23rd ASSETS 2021: Virtual Event, USA
- Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Faustina Hwang:

ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Virtual Event, USA, October 18-22, 2021. ACM 2021, ISBN 978-1-4503-8306-6
Opening Keynote Presentation
- Axel Leblois:

The DARE Index - Monitoring the Progress of Digital Accessibility around the World - A Research Conducted by Advocates for Advocates. 1:1
Paper Session 1: Inclusive education
- Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, Martin Grayson, Elisabeth R. B. Becker, Vasiliki Kladouchou, Linda Pring, Katherine Jones

, Rita Faia Marques, Camilla Longden
, Abigail Sellen:
Enabling meaningful use of AI-infused educational technologies for children with blindness: Learnings from the development and piloting of the PeopleLens curriculum. 2:1-2:13 - Murtaza Tamjeed, Vinita Tibdewal, Madison Russell, Michael McQuaid, Tae (Tom) Oh, Kristen Shinohara

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Understanding Disability Services Toward Improving Graduate Student Support. 3:1-3:14 - Aboubakar Mountapmbeme, Stephanie Ludi:

How Teachers of the Visually Impaired Compensate with the Absence of Accessible Block-Based Languages. 4:1-4:10
Paper Session 2: Immersive and wearable technologies
- Rachel L. Franz

, Sasa Junuzovic, Martez E. Mott:
Nearmi: A Framework for Designing Point of Interest Techniques for VR Users with Limited Mobility. 5:1-5:14 - Rushil Khurana, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington:

Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics. 6:1-6:11 - Alexandru-Ionut Siean, Radu-Daniel Vatavu:

Wearable Interactions for Users with Motor Impairments: Systematic Review, Inventory, and Research Implications. 7:1-7:15 - Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Chieko Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri:

Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind. 8:1-8:15
Paper Session 3: Health and support systems
- Chen Chen

, Janet G. Johnson, Kemeberly Charles, Alice Lee, Ella T. Lifset
, Michael Hogarth, Alison A. Moore, Emilia Farcas
, Nadir Weibel
:
Understanding Barriers and Design Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and QOL for Older Adults through Voice Assistants. 9:1-9:16 - Qisheng Li

, Josephine Lee, Christina Zhang, Katharina Reinecke:
How Online Tests Contribute to the Support System for People With Cognitive and Mental Disabilities. 10:1-10:15 - Thomas Howard, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Jeanine L. M. Skorinko, Pauline Bosma, John Mullaly, Brian Kelly, Deborah Lloyd, Mary Wishart, Emiton Alves, Nicole Jutras, Mariah Freark, Nancy A. Alterio:

Designing an App to Help Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Recognize Abuse. 11:1-11:14 - Gabriele Cimolino, Sussan Askari, T. C. Nicholas Graham:

Beyond Fun: Players' Experiences of Accessible Rehabilitation Gaming for Spinal Cord Injury. 12:1-12:13 - Claudia Chen, Robert Wu, Hashim Khan, Khai N. Truong, Fanny Chevalier:

VIDDE: Visualizations for Helping People with COPD Interpret Dyspnea During Exercise. 13:1-13:14
Paper Session 4: Screen readers and effective descriptions
- Ather Sharif, Sanjana Shivani Chintalapati, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Katharina Reinecke:

Understanding Screen-Reader Users' Experiences with Online Data Visualizations. 14:1-14:16 - Farhani Momotaz, Md. Touhidul Islam

, Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque
, Syed Masum Billah:
Understanding Screen Readers' Plugins. 15:1-15:10 - Abigale Stangl

, Nitin Verma
, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Meredith Ringel Morris, Danna Gurari:
Going Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Image Descriptions to Satisfy the Information Wants of People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision. 16:1-16:15 - Rosiana Natalie, Jolene Loh, Huei Suen Tan, Joshua Tseng, Ian Luke Yi-Ren Chan, Ebrima H. Jarjue, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara

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The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions. 17:1-17:15
Session 5: Representations of disability and researcher perspectives
- Giulia Barbareschi

, Norah Shitawa Kopi, Ben Oldfrey
, Catherine Holloway:
What difference does tech make? Conceptualizations of Disability and Assistive Technology among Kenyan Youth: Conceptualizations of Disability and AT. 18:1-18:13 - Emory James Edwards

, Kyle Lewis Polster, Isabel Tuason, Emily Blank, Michael D. Gilbert, Stacy M. Branham:
"That's in the eye of the beholder": Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities. 19:1-19:14 - Joy Ming

, Sharon Heung, Shiri Azenkot, Aditya Vashistha:
Accept or Address? Researchers' Perspectives on Response Bias in Accessibility Research. 20:1-20:13 - Kelly Mack, Maitraye Das

, Dhruv Jain, Danielle Bragg, John C. Tang, Andrew Begel, Erin Beneteau
, Josh Urban Davis, Abraham Glasser
, Joon Sung Park, Venkatesh Potluri:
Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: a group autoethnography of a virtual summer internship. 21:1-21:13
Paper Session 6: Novel tools and usability studies
- Sooyeon Lee, Abraham Glasser

, Becca Dingman, Zhaoyang Xia, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Carol Neidle, Matt Huenerfauth:
American Sign Language Video Anonymization to Support Online Participation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users. 22:1-22:13 - Kelly Mack, Edward Cutrell, Bongshin Lee, Meredith Ringel Morris:

Designing Tools for High-Quality Alt Text Authoring. 23:1-23:14 - Yi-Hao Peng

, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
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Slidecho: Flexible Non-Visual Exploration of Presentation Videos. 24:1-24:12 - Gesu India

, Mohit Jain, Pallav Karya, Nirmalendu Diwakar, Manohar Swaminathan:
VStroll: An Audio-based Virtual Exploration to Encourage Walking among People with Vision Impairments. 25:1-25:13
Paper Session 7: AI and Accessibility
- Bhavya Ghai, Klaus Mueller:

Fluent: An AI Augmented Writing Tool for People who Stutter. 26:1-26:8 - Lida Theodorou, Daniela Massiceti, Luisa M. Zintgraf, Simone Stumpf

, Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, Matthew Tobias Harris, Katja Hofmann:
Disability-first Dataset Creation: Lessons from Constructing a Dataset for Teachable Object Recognition with Blind and Low Vision Data Collectors. 27:1-27:12 - Rie Kamikubo, Utkarsh Dwivedi, Hernisa Kacorri:

Sharing Practices for Datasets Related to Accessibility and Aging. 28:1-28:16 - Hui Zheng, Pattiya Mahapasuthanon

, Yujing Chen, Huzefa Rangwala, Anya S. Evmenova, Vivian Genaro Motti
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WLA4ND: a Wearable Dataset of Learning Activities for Young Adults with Neurodiversity to Provide Support in Education. 29:1-29:15
Paper Session 8: Independence and everyday living
- Franklin Mingzhe Li, Jamie Dorst, Peter Cederberg, Patrick Carrington:

Non-Visual Cooking: Exploring Practices and Challenges of Meal Preparation by People with Visual Impairments. 30:1-30:11 - Kevin M. Storer, Stacy M. Branham

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Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing. 31:1-31:14 - Maryam Bandukda, Catherine Holloway, Aneesha Singh

, Giulia Barbareschi
, Nadia Berthouze
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Opportunities for Supporting Self-efficacy Through Orientation & Mobility Training Technologies for Blind and Partially Sighted People. 32:1-32:13 - Anirudh Nagraj, Ravi Kuber, Foad Hamidi, Raghavendra S. G. Prasad:

Investigating the Navigational Habits of People who are Blind in India. 33:1-33:10
Experience Reports
- Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Ulka Patil, Barsa Tandukar:

A Case for Making Web Accessibility Guidelines Accessible: Older Adult Content Creators and Web Accessibility Planning. 34:1-34:6 - Sergio Mascetti, Mattia Ducci, Niccolò Cantù, Paolo Pecis, Dragan Ahmetovic

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Developing Accessible Mobile Applications with Cross-Platform Development Frameworks. 35:1-35:5 - Lilian de Greef, Dominik Moritz

, Cynthia L. Bennett:
Interdependent Variables: Remotely Designing Tactile Graphics for an Accessible Workflow. 36:1-36:6 - Amelie Unger

, Dieter P. Wallach, Nicole Jochems:
Lost in Translation: Challenges and Barriers to Sign Language-Accessible User Research. 37:1-37:5 - Tiffany Thang, Alice Liang, Yechan Choi, Adrian Parrales, Sara H. Kuang, Sri Kurniawan, Heather Perez:

Providing and Accessing Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Mental Health Professionals, Community and Vocational Support Providers, and Adults with ASD. 38:1-38:6 - Sarah L. Woodin, Arthur Theil:

Regulating Personal Cameras for Disabled People and People with Deafblindness: Implications for HCI and Accessible Computing. 39:1-39:6
Paper Session 9: Communication and novel interactions
- Sedeeq Al-khazraji, Becca Dingman, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth:

At a Different Pace: Evaluating Whether Users Prefer Timing Parameters in American Sign Language Animations to Differ from Human Signers' Timing. 40:1-40:12 - Chanchal Agrawal, Roshan Lalintha Peiris

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I See What You're Saying: A Literature Review of Eye Tracking Research in Communication of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users. 41:1-41:13 - Vinitha Gadiraju, Jérémie Garcia, Shaun K. Kane, Anke M. Brock:

"It is fascinating to make these beasts fly": Understanding Visually Impaired People's Motivations and Needs for Drone Piloting. 42:1-42:12 - Stephanie Valencia

, Mark Steidl, Michael L. Rivera
, Cynthia L. Bennett, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni
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Aided Nonverbal Communication through Physical Expressive Objects. 43:1-43:11
Closing Keynote Presentation
- Annalu Waller:

Participatory Design and Research: Challenges for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies. 44:1
Posters and Demos
- Jesse J. Martinez, James Fogarty, Jon E. Froehlich:

A Preliminary Analysis of Android Educational Game Accessibility. 45:1-45:4 - Emma Colbourne, Alishbah Khan, Faustina Hwang:

A review of how older adults' computer skills and proficiency are reported in the literature. 46:1-46:3 - Michael Longley, Yasmine N. El-Glaly

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Accessibility Support in Web Frameworks. 47:1-47:4 - Robin Howlett, Laurianne Sitbon

, Maria Hoogstrate, Saminda Sundeepa Balasuriya
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Accessible Citizen Science, by people with intellectual disability. 48:1-48:3 - Andrew Marone, Taylor Gotfrid, Kale Kurtzhall, Yasmine N. El-Glaly

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Active Math Learning for Students with Writing Disabilities. 49:1-49:3 - Pei Du, Nirupama Bulusu:

An automated AR-based annotation tool for indoor navigation for visually impaired people. 50:1-50:4 - Zikai Alex Wen

, Yuhang Zhao, Erica Silverstein, Shiri Azenkot:
An Intelligent Math E-Tutoring System for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities. 51:1-51:4 - Gregg C. Vanderheiden, J. Bern Jordan

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An Open-source Tool for Simplifying Computer and Assistive Technology Use: Tool for simplification and auto-personalization of computers and assistive technologies. 52:1-52:3 - Tushar Gupta, Leila Aflatoony, Lynette Leonard:

Augmenta11y: A Reading Assistant Application for Children with Dyslexia. 53:1-53:3 - Hwei-Shin Harriman, Dragan Ahmetovic

, Sergio Mascetti, Darren Moyle, Michael Evans, Paul Ruvolo:
Clew3D: Automated Generation of O&M Instructions Using LIDAR-Equipped Smartphones. 54:1-54:3 - Cheuk Yin Phipson Lee, Zhuohao Zhang, Jaylin Herskovitz, Jooyoung Seo, Anhong Guo:

CollabAlly: Accessible Collaboration Awareness in Document Editing. 55:1-55:4 - Yuxiang Zhang, Sachin Mehta, Anat Caspi:

Collecting Sidewalk Network Data at Scale for Accessible Pedestrian Travel. 56:1-56:4 - Akira Uehara:

Colorable Band: A Wearable Device to Encourage Daily Decision Making Based on Behavior of Users with Color Vision Deficiency. 57:1-57:4 - Nicholas L. Robertson, Filip Bircanin

, Laurianne Sitbon
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Designing a Pictorial Communication Web Application With People With Intellectual Disability. 58:1-58:4 - Becca Dingman, Garreth W. Tigwell

, Kristen Shinohara
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Designing a Podcast Platform for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users. 59:1-59:4 - Eve Kelly

, Michelle Weech, Rosalind Fallaize
, Rodrigo Zenun Franco, Faustina Hwang, Julie Lovegrove:
Designing Apps to Support Engagement by Older Adults: A think-aloud study of the eNutri dietary-intake assessment web app. 60:1-60:3 - Lauren Race, Amber James, Andrew Hayward, Kia El-Amin, Maya Gold Patterson, Theresa Mershon:

Designing Sensory and Social Tools for Neurodivergent Individuals in Social Media Environments. 61:1-61:5 - Jeehan Malik

, Masuma Akter Rumi, Morgan DeNeve, Calvin Skalla, Lindsay Ball, Lauren Lieberman, Kyle Rector:
Determining a Taxonomy of Accessible Phrases During Exercise Instruction for People with Visual Impairments for Text Analysis. 62:1-62:3 - Gary Behm, Shareef Sayel Ali, Spencer Montan:

Equivalent Telecommunications Access on Mobile Devices. 63:1-63:3 - Manesha Andradi

, Filip Bircanin
, Laurianne Sitbon
, Margot Brereton
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Expanding Designing for One to Invite Others Through Reverse Inclusion. 64:1-64:4 - Ather Sharif, Paari Gopal, Michael Saugstad, Shiven Bhatt, Raymond Fok, Galen Weld, Kavi Asher Mankoff Dey, Jon E. Froehlich

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Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time. 65:1-65:5 - Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian, Jeanine L. M. Skorinko, Nicole Jutras, Natalia Carvajal Erker, Lara Padir:

Exploring the Requirements of Abuse Reporting for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 66:1-66:4 - Filipa Rocha

, Guilherme Guimarães, David Gonçalves, Ana Cristina Pires
, Lúcia Verónica Abreu, Tiago João Vieira Guerreiro:
Fostering collaboration with asymmetric roles in accessible programming environments for children with mixed-visual-abilities. 67:1-67:4 - Yaqi Xie, Hao Wang, Chaoquan Luo, Zhuo Yang, Yinwei Zhan:

GazeMetro: A Gaze-Based Interactive System for Metro Map. 68:1-68:3 - Jaewook Lee, Yi-Hao Peng

, Jaylin Herskovitz, Anhong Guo:
Image Explorer: Multi-Layered Touch Exploration to Make Images Accessible. 69:1-69:4 - Jeehan Malik

, Mitchell Majure, Hana Gabrielle Rubio Bidon, Regan Lamoureux, Kyle Rector:
Increasing Access to Trainer-led Aerobic Exercise for People with Visual Impairments through a Sensor Mat System. 70:1-70:4 - Becca Dingman, Garreth W. Tigwell

, Kristen Shinohara
:
Interview and Think Aloud Accessibility for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants in Design Research. 71:1-71:3 - Frode Eika Sandnes:

Inverse Color Contrast Checker: Automatically Suggesting Color Adjustments that meet Contrast Requirements on the Web. 72:1-72:4 - Thomas Langford

, Alex P. Leff
, Daniela Romano
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iReadMore: A Reading Therapy App Co-Designed by People with Aphasia and Alexia. 73:1-73:3 - Anne-Marie Greenaway

, Slawomir Nasuto
, Aileen Ho, Faustina Hwang:
Is home-based webcam eye-tracking with older adults living with and without Alzheimer's disease feasible? 74:1-74:3 - Dayanlee De León Cordero, Christopher Ayala, Patricia Ordóñez:

Kavita Project: Voice Programming for People with Motor Disabilities. 75:1-75:3 - Emma Sadjo

, Leah Findlater, Abigale Stangl
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Landscape Analysis of Commercial Visual Assistance Technologies. 76:1-76:4 - Keita Ohshiro

, Amy Hurst
, Roger Luke DuBois
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Making Math Graphs More Accessible in Remote Learning: Using Sonification to Introduce Discontinuity in Calculus. 77:1-77:4 - Leandro Soares Guedes

, Monica Landoni:
Meeting Participants with Intellectual Disabilities during COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Improvisation. 78:1-78:4 - Sérgio Alves, Pedro Caldeira, Filipa Ferreira-Brito, Luís Carriço

, Tiago João Guerreiro:
myView: End-user Authoring of Virtual Environments for Therapy. 79:1-79:4 - Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong

, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock:
New Metrics for Understanding Touch by People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function. 80:1-80:4 - Jessica G. J. Vuijk, James Gay, Myrthe A. Plaisier, Astrid M. L. Kappers

, Arthur Theil:
PatRec: A Mobile Game for Learning Social Haptic Communication. 81:1-81:4 - Dragan Ahmetovic

, Antonio Pugliese, Sergio Mascetti, Valentina Begnozzi, Elena Boccalandro, Roberta Gualtierotti, Flora Peyvandi:
Rehabilitation through Accessible Mobile Gaming and Wearable Sensors. 82:1-82:4 - Lior Levy, Qisheng Li, Ather Sharif, Katharina Reinecke:

Respectful Language as Perceived by People with Disabilities. 83:1-83:4 - Jirachaya Fern Limprayoon, Prithu Pareek

, Xiang Zhi Tan
, Aaron Steinfeld:
Robot Trajectories When Approaching a User with a Visual Impairment. 84:1-84:4 - Lucy Lu Wang

, Isabel Cachola, Jonathan Bragg
, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chelsea Haupt, Matt Latzke
, Bailey Kuehl, Madeleine N. van Zuylen, Linda Wagner
, Daniel S. Weld:
SciA11y: Converting Scientific Papers to Accessible HTML. 85:1-85:4 - Kenta Yamamoto, Ippei Suzuki, Akihisa Shitara, Yoichi Ochiai:

See-Through Captions: Real-Time Captioning on Transparent Display for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People. 86:1-86:4 - Michael Duan, Aroosh Kumar, Michael Saugstad, Aileen Zeng, Ilia Savin, Jon E. Froehlich

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Sidewalk Gallery: An Interactive, Filterable Image Gallery of Over 500, 000 Sidewalk Accessibility Problems. 87:1-87:5 - Myrthe A. Plaisier, Astrid M. L. Kappers

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Social Haptic Communication mimicked with vibrotactile patterns - an evaluation by users with deafblindness. 88:1-88:3 - Fabiha Ahmed, Dennis Kuzminer, Michael Zachor, Lisa Ye, Rachel Josepho, William Christopher Payne

, Amy Hurst:
Sound Cells: Rendering Visual and Braille Music in the Browser. 89:1-89:4 - Teppei Miura, Shinji Sako:

SynSLaG: Synthetic Sign Language Generator. 90:1-90:4 - Ya-Wen Chang, Laurianne Sitbon

, Leonie Simpson:
Towards a Secured and Safe Online Social Media Design Framework for People with Intellectual Disability. 91:1-91:4 - Lauren Olson, Chandra Kambhamettu, Kathleen F. McCoy:

Towards Using Live Photos to Mitigate Image Quality Issues In VQA Photography. 92:1-92:3 - Rosiana Natalie, Jolene Loh, Huei Suen Tan, Joshua Tseng, Hernisa Kacorri, Kotaro Hara

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Uncovering Patterns in Reviewers' Feedback to Scene Description Authors. 93:1-93:4 - Gonçalo Ferreira Lobo, David Gonçalves, Pedro Pais

, Tiago João Vieira Guerreiro, André Rodrigues
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Using Games to Practice Screen Reader Gestures. 94:1-94:4 - Carmen Yip, Jie Mi Chong, Sin Yee Kwek, Yong Wang

, Kotaro Hara
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Visionary Caption: Improving the Accessibility of Presentation Slides Through Highlighting Visualization. 95:1-95:4 - Johannes Hackbarth, Caspar Jacob:

Walker - An Autonomous, Interactive Walking Aid. 96:1-96:3 - Saki Asakawa, Amy Hurst:

"What just happened?": Understanding Non-visual Watching Sports Experiences. 97:1-97:3 - Rezylle Milallos, Vinita Tibdewal, Yiwen Wang

, Andre Ogueh Udegbe, Tae (Tom) Oh:
"Would the smart cane benefit me?": Perceptions of the Visually Impaired towards Smart Canes. 98:1-98:3 - Ryo Iijima, Akihisa Shitara, Sayan Sarcar, Yoichi Ochiai:

Word Cloud for Meeting: A Visualization System for DHH People in Online Meetings. 99:1-99:4
Student Research Competition Abstracts
- Sabahat Fatima:

Activity Recognition in Older Adults with Training Data from Younger Adults: Preliminary Results on in Vivo Smartwatch Sensor Data. 100:1-100:4 - Samine Hadadi:

Adee: Bringing Accessibility Right Inside Design Tools. 101:1-101:4 - Gabriele Galimberti:

Auditory feedback to compensate audible instructions to support people with visual impairment. 102:1-102:3 - Andreas Säuberli

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Measuring Text Comprehension for People with Reading Difficulties Using a Mobile Application. 103:1-103:4 - Hyeon Jeong Byeon

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Voice Creator: Giving Customized Voice to the Voiceless for Online Communication. 104:1-104:3

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