iHCI 2011 paper reviews
Monday, 27 June 2011
Mark Magennis is reviewing paper submissions to the iHCI conference again this year. There are some papers on accessibility topics. Interesting work being done on Irish Sign Language avatars. Early stages yet, but it would be great to see this develop into automatic text-to-sign language processing. Also work on interfaces to word processors for people with occular-motor dysfunction and taking account of the needs of people with low-literacy in the design of information kiosks.
It's great to see students and researchers addressing issues that are socially important as well as interesting, challenging and personally rewarding. Our own recent experiences with supporting a University of Limerick student to make the RTÉ Player accessible to screen reader users has been very rewarding with great results, so we'll be looking to get more engagements like this in the future.