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Workshop theme - Designing Inclusive Futures Creating a better balance of work, living and leisure, for disability and ageing

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14/04/2008 - 00:00
16/04/2008 - 16:00

The workshop theme “Designing Inclusive Futures” reflects the need to explore the issues and practicalities of design  that is intended to extend our active future lives in a coherent way. This encompasses design for inclusion: in the workplace; for businesses; for the individual and of products in these contexts.

The philosophy underlying inclusive design specifically extends the definition of product users to include people who are excluded by disability and rapidly changing technology, especially the elderly and ageing, and prioritises the role and value of impairment and disability in innovation and new product and service development. It also addresses the context of use, both physical and psychological, and the complexity of interactions between products, services and their interfaces in specific contexts of use, such as in the workplace and during independent living. Universal access and assistive technology are seen as key focussing domains for these issues.

The workshop aims to encourage wide-ranging discussion, co-operation and collaboration within and between the universal access and assistive technology research communities in the context of inclusive design. We hope this will lead to new solutions to reduce exclusion and difficulty arising from impairment with special application to our future lives, in the workplace, at home and at leisure.
Following the last CWUAAT 2006 and the two previous successful events in Cambridge in 2002 and 2004, the conference will return again to Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge on 14th April – 16th April 2008.
The general themes are:
  •   Designing Assistive and Rehabilitation Technology for working and daily living environments
  •   Measuring inclusion for the design of products for work and daily living
  •   Computer Access, Intelligent Environments and New Technologies for inclusive design
  •   Accessible and Inclusive Design for work and daily living environments
  •   Assembling new User Data for inclusive design
  •   Social, Workplace and Environmental Context of product use
  •   Legistlation, Standards and Government Awareness of inclusive design
Contributions on other topics relevant to Assistive Technology, Universal access, and Inclusive Design will also be accepted. Please note that we welcome the submission of papers that include user testing of prototype systems or demonstrators with real users. Space and time will be available for demonstrations of software and hardware.
We expect that the accepted long papers will be published as a book by Springer-Verlag, UK. Short papers will be published in the proceedings. Selected long papers will appear in a special edition of the Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal published by Springer.
As one of the most praised aspects of CWUAAT 06, the event will again include a Doctoral Consortium on the first morning of the conference. Candidates who submit to the doctoral consortium will be able to attend the workshop at a greatly reduced registration and 10 places have been allocated for this purpose. The two presentations judged to be the best by the consortium panel will win a podium presentation in the main workshop.
Workshop format
The CWUAAT workshop is structured to offer a range of formats for presentation of new and exciting research in the fields of Inclusive Design, Universal Access and Assistive Technology. These formats include:
Formal paper presentations
Formal papers represent the core backbone of the workshops, with the majority of sessions dedicated to single-track presentations. Although there is an argument for multi-track sessions with a tighter focus, the over-riding aim of the workshops is to stimulate discussion and information transfer between the different research and industrial communities and to expose participants to research they may otherwise not encounter.
Posters
Poster sessions are available for authors who choose not to give formal paper presentations, or who feel that their research is not yet at a stage to describe in a formal paper. The poster sessions are ideal for students in the early stages of their research, or for late-breaking developments.
Demonstrations
Demonstration sessions allow workshops participants to observe and gain hands-on experience of working systems. Space and time is available for demonstrations of functioning software and/or hardware.
Plenary discussions
One of the principal aims of the workshop is to promote discussion between different research communities. To this end, the workshops have explicit discussion sessions included in the schedule.  
Demonstrations
It is hoped that participants will be able to gain hands-on experience with working systems. Space and time will be available for demonstrations of software and hardware. 
Invited contributions
CWUAAT aims to generate:
  •   Formal papers (6-10 pages), reporting original work relevant to the workshop themes;
  •   Poster presentations (1-2 pages abstract, 3-4 pages for camera-ready copy); and
  •   Demonstrations (1 page description)
Further details on paper format can be found on our submission formatting page. Please submit your accepted paper in camera-ready format  (Microsoft Word only) via our online submissions system by 16 November 2007.
All papers have been reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee, and the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop. 
Important dates
Deadline for submission of formal/position papers, poster abstracts: 3 September, 2007
Deadline for demonstration submissions: 1 October, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance: 12 October, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready version of submitted papers: 16 November, 2007
Advance registration (ends): 19 December, 2007
Late registration (ends): 26 February, 2008
CWUAAT Workshop: 14-16 April, 2008.
 
Registration form is now available on-line. Authors of accepted posters and papers must register by 3 December, 2007. Please see the form for our cancellation policy.
Early academic (received by 19th December, 2007)………..………£275
Late academic (received by 26th February, 2008)…………………..£325
Student (received by 26th February, 2008)...………………..………..£225*
 
* Student registrations must be accompanied by proof of student status, such as a letter from a school or department official verifying status. Any student registration that is not accompanied by proof of student status will be charged as an academic delegate.

Organising Committee

Dr Patrick Langdon, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Prof John Clarkson, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Prof Peter Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Programme Committee

Dr Colette Nicolle, Loughborough University
Dr Gail Mountain, CHSCR, Sheffield Hallam University
Dr Gordon Rugg, University of Keele
Dr Hua Dong, Brunel University UK
Prof John Clarkson, University of Cambridge
Dr Joy Goodman-Deane, University of Cambridge
Dr Kerry Platman, University of Warwick
Dr Mark Rouncefield, Computing, University of Lancaster
Dr Mary Zajicek, Oxford Brookes University
Prof Marcus Ormerod, University of Salford
Dr Pat Langdon, University of Cambridge
Dr Rachel McCrindle, University of Reading
Dr Ray Adams, Middlesex University
Dr Ruth Mayagoitia-Hill, Kings College London
Dr Stephen Furner,  BT Group Chief Technology Offices
Dr Susan Cobb, Nottingham University VIRART
Dr Tariq Rahman, University of Delaware, USA
Dr Tony Brooks, Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg, Denmark
Dr Michael Hillman, BIME
Dr Faustina Hwang, University of Reading
Dr Gill Whitney, Middlesex University
Prof Constantine Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Prof Roger Coleman, Royal College of Art
Prof  Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge
Prof Alastair  Macdonald, The Glasgow School of Art
Prof Andrew Monk, Psychology, University of York
Prof Bipin Bhakta, Neurological  Rehabilitation, University of Leeds
Prof Helen Petrie, Psychology, University of York
Prof Julienne Hanson, Bartlett Institute, University College London
Prof Noelle Carbonell, LORIA, France
Prof Penny Standen, University of Nottingham
Jane Dillon, Royal Mail 
Susan Hewer, RSA

Contact Information

For further information please contact:
Ms Mari Huhtala or Ms Suzanne Williams
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
United Kingdom
Tel:  +44 (0)1223 748245 / 748247
Fax: +44 (0)1223 339263
cwuaat-enquiries@eng.cam.ac.uk 

 

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