3rd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All
by Constantine Stephanidis and Noëlle Carbonell
The 3rd ERCIM Workshop on "User Interfaces for All" took
place at Obernai, France, 3-4 November 1997 and was organised by INRIA
Lorraine (Noelle Carbonell). The Workshop built upon the results of the
two previous Workshops held at ICS-FORTH, Crete, Greece, 30-31 October
1995, and Prague, Czech Republic, 7-8 November 1996. This yearly ERCIM
Workshop aims to stimulate further discussion on the state of the art in
work committed to the promotion of the 'Design for All' principle in the
field of Human-Computer Interaction, and to consolidate recent work in
the areas of adaptation (adaptability and adaptivity), platform independence
and interoperability, multimodality, interaction metaphors, user empowerment,
ergonomic and human factors guidelines, multi-linguality, internationalisation
and localisation of interactive applications, etc.
Seven paper submissions were accepted as long papers, seventeen as short
papers, and six as poster presentations. Also, the Workshop featured one
position paper and two invited speakers:
- Dr Len Bass, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon,
University, Pittsburgh, USA
- Dr Mark T. Maybury, from the Advanced Information Systems Centre, the
MITRE Corporation, Bedford, USA.
On the 5th of November 1997, the meetings of the Workshop Programme
Committee and the ERCIM Working Group on 'User Interfaces for All' took
place at the same location. A series of activities was discussed and planned,
aimed at bringing closer together researchers and teams working in the
different ERCIM institutes, as well as industrial actors and other organisations
across the world with the common objective to work towards making interactive
applications and services accessible and usable by all potential users.
Specific collaborative R&D activities and project proposals have been
initiated.
The Proceedings of the Workshop will be made electronically available
via the Web site of the ERCIM Working Group on User Interfaces for all
at: http://www.ics.forth.gr/ercim-wg-ui4all
Please contact:
Constantine Stephanidis - FORTH
Tel: +30 81 391741
E-mail: cs@ics.forth.gr
Noelle Carbonell - INRIA
Tel: +33 3 83 59 20 32
E-mail: Noelle.Carbonell@loria.fr
