ERCIM News No.28 - January 1997

C O N T E N T S

EDITORIAL

Guest Editorial by Roberto Carneiro, Vice-President of the European Forum for the Information Society and President of the Evaluation Committee for the European Union's ESPRIT Programme

JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS

ERCIM New Members Policy by Keith Jeffery
ERCIM Meetings in Prague by Michal Haindl and Jiri Zlatuska
Dimitri Papadias awarded Cor Baayen Fellowship

SPECIAL THEME:

SPECIAL THEME: DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Disabled and Elderly People in the Information Society by Constantine Stephanidis
Navigating the Graphical User Interfaces - Supporting Equal Access in the 'Infomacracy by Arthur I. Karshmer
Provision of a Communication Device for a Homebound ALS Client by Takuro Hatakeyama, Fumiko Osawa and Akira Hakuno
Web Style Sheets for the Visually Impaired by Håkon Lie
Triasis - Videotelephony adapted to Elderly and Disabled People's Needs by Jacqueline Floch
DEFIE - An Environment Control System for Elderly and Disabled People by Rolando Bianchi Bandinelli and Antonina Saba
Adaptable Appearance and Functionality in Communication Software for Speech Impaired People by Eija Kaasinen
A Project to Support Sensor of Motion-Impaired by Jan Uhlír
Interface Adaptation in a Teleworking Environment for Disabled People by Henrike Gappa and Stefanie Mermet
Security Alarm System Supports Independent Living of Demented Persons by Jaana Leikas
Robotic Wheelchair Platform Navigation by Panos Trahanias, Constantine Stephanidis and Stelios Orphanoudakis
ISAEUS: Speech Training for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired People by Jean-Paul Haton
Making Mathematics Accessible to Students who are Blind by Alistair D N Edwards
Real Time Czech and Slovak Text-to-Speech System by Robert Vích
Educational Software for Disabled Children by Michela Ott
A Tool for Hospitalised Children and a Communication Tool for Users with Disabilities by Kristian Simsarian and Kristina Höök
Notebook for the Blind by Radim Matulík
Information Technology, Telecommunications and Disability - An Approach Towards Integration by Pier Luigi Emiliani
IT connected Research at the Swedish Handicap Institute by Lena Birge and Margita Lundman
Business Process Software Support for Sheltered Workshops by Ken Robinson
Unified User Interface Development by Constantine Stephanidis

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Digital Techniques for Character Recognition in Old Documents by Luigi Bedini, Andrea Bozzi and Anna Tonazzini
GMD Launches International Satellite Earth Stations by Sepideh Chakaveh
Enhancing Information Systems with Co-operative Explanatory Capabilities by Simon Lambert
TMR Research Network VIRGO: Vision-Based Robot Navigation Research Network by Stelios C. Orphanoudakis and Panos E. Trahanias
ESPRESS - Engineering of Safety-Critical Embedded Systems by Sergio Montenegro
Grammar Systems - A Language-Theoretic Approach to Distribution and Cooperation by Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú
Virtual Reality in Education by Matti Kuusisto and Raimo Launonen
Image Segmentation using Markov Random Field Model in Fully Parallel Cellular Network VLSI Architectures by Tamás Szirányi and Josiane Zerubia
Calliope - An Experiment in Digital Libraries by Catherine Alauzun and François Rechenmann

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

WAMM - A Metacomputer Graphical Interface by Ranieri Baraglia and Domenico Laforenza
Evaluation of Quality Characteristics in Health Care Information Systems by Fabrizio Fabbrini and Mario Fusani
European Entrypoint for the Brazilian Software Industry at GMD by Gilson Fonseca
Looking for Advertisements based on a Map by Risto Vuorjoki

EVENTS

TANGRAM wins Object Application Award by Gerd Schürmann and Klaus-Peter Eckert
2nd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All by Constantine Stephanidis
Second ERCIM DELOS Workshop Examines Interoperability and Metadata by Thomas Baker
ERCIM Working Group Environmental Modelling Kick-off Meeting by Achim Sydow
ERCIM Workshop Heterogeneous Information Management by Jaroslav Pokorny
ECCOMAS'96 New Trends in Scientific Computing by Armel Guillet
First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September 1997
Second ERCIM International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, Cesena, Italy, 4-5 July 1997
International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems 97, Berlin, Germany, 9-11 April 1997
DELOS Spring Workshop on Multilinguality, Zurich, Switzerland, 5-7 March 1997
Eurographics'97, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 September 1997
1st European Conference on Information Technologies for the Envrionment, Strasbourg, France, 10-12 September 1997
First International Workshop on Mobile Agents'97, Berlin, Germany, 7-8 April 1997
Second World Congress on Intelligent Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 June 1997