Tentative Schedule ( *** Subject to Change *** )

• Sunday, October 21st (Registration and DC only)
• Monday, October 22nd
• Tuesday, October 23rd
• Wednesday, October 24th


• Poster Session 1 (Monday, October 22nd, 14:30 - 16:00)
• Poster Session 2 (Tuesday, October 23rd, 14:00 - 15:30)

Sunday, October 21st

08:00 — 18:00	Doctoral Consortium This event is only open to the invited students and the faculty panel. List of Doctoral Consortium participants
17:00 — 19:00	Registration desk open Near Millennium Room, 1st floor

Monday, October 22nd

08:00 — 08:30	Registration Near Grand BallRoom
08:30 — 09:00	Opening Welcome to ASSETS 2012 Matt Huenerfauth (General Chair), Sri Kurniawan (Program Chair) Other Announcements and Welcomes (to be announced)
09:00 — 10:00	Keynote Address Dr. John Gardner
10:00 — 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 — 12:00	Screen Reader Usage Session Chair: Jeffrey Bigham (University of Rochester) Back Navigation Shortcuts for Screen Reader Users Romisa Rohani Ghahari, Mexhid Ferati, Tao Yang and Davide Bolchini Capture: A Desktop Display-Centric Text Recorder Oren Laadan, Andrew Shu and Jason Nieh Thematic Organization of Web Content for Distraction-Free Text-to-Speech Narration Muhammad Islam, Faisal Ahmed, Yevgen Borodin and I.V. Ramakrishnan
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:30	Designing for Older Adults Session Chair: Vicki Hanson (University of Dundee) Basic Senior Personas: A Representative Design Tool Covering the Spectrum of European Older Adults Bernhard Wöckl, Ulcay Yildizoglu, Isabella Buber, Belinda Aparicio Diaz, Ernst Kruijff and Manfred Tscheligi Considerations For Technology That Support Physical Activity By Older Adults Chloe Fan, Jodi Forlizzi and Anind Dey Design Recommendations for TV User Interfaces for Older Adults: Findings from the eCAALYX Project Francisco Nunes, Maureen Kerwin and Paula Alexandra Silva
14:30 — 16:00	Poster Session 1 and Coffee Break Poster Session 1:Posters and Demonstrations (includes SRC posters and posters of the SIGACCESS Scholarship awardees)
16:00 — 17:30	Communication Aids Session Chair: Adam Sporka (Czech Technical University ) What We Talk About: Designing a Context-Aware Communication Tool for People with Aphasia Shaun Kane, Barbara Linam-Church, Kyle Althoff and Denise Mccall iSCAN: A Phoneme-based Predictive Communication Aid for Nonspeaking Individuals Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson and Vicki L. Hanson Detecting Linguistic HCI Markers in an Online Aphasia Support Group Yoram M Kalman, Kathleen Geraghty, Cynthia K Thompson, Darren Gergle
19:00	Conference Reception

Tuesday, October 23th

08:00 — 08:30	Registration
08:30 — 10:00	Accessibility at Large Session Chair: Simon Harper (University of Manchester) Accessible Views Collaboration Raja Kushalnagar, Walter Lasecki and Jeffrey Bigham Web Accessibility as a Side Effect John T. Richards, Kyle Montague and Vicki L. Hanson How do professionals who create computing technologies consider accessibility? Cynthia Putnam, Kathryn Wozniak, Mary Jo Zefeldt, Jinghui Cheng, Morgan Caputo and Carl Duffield
10:00 — 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 — 12:00	Interactions without Sight Session Chair: Armando Barreto (Florida International University) Learning Non-Visual Graphical Information using a Touch-Based Vibro-Audio Interface Nicholas Giudice, Hariprasath Palani, Eric Brenner and Kevin Kramer Helping Visually Impaired Users Properly Aim a Camera Marynel Vázquez and Aaron Steinfeld
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00	SRC Finalist Presentations List of SRC Papers
14:00 — 15:30	Poster Session 2 and Coffee Break Poster Session 2:Posters and Demonstrations (includes DC posters)
15:30 — 16:30	Understanding Aging Performance Session Chair: Faustina Hwang (University of Reading) Understanding the role of age and fluid intelligence in information search Shari Trewin, John T. Richards, Vicki L. Hanson, David Sloan, Bonnie E. John, Cal Swart and John C. Thomas Elderly Text-Entry Performance on Touchscreens Hugo Nicolau and Joaquim Jorge
16:30 — 17:30	SIGACCESS Business Meeting
19:00	Evening Event See details on Special Events page

Wednesday, October 24th

08:00 — 08:30	Registration
08:30 — 10:00	Shared Work Session Chair: Richard Ladner (University of Washington, Seattle campus) Crowdsourcing Subjective Fashion Advice Using VizWiz: Challenges and Opportunities Michele A. Burton, Erin Brady, Robin Brewer, Callie Neylan, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Amy Hurst Online Quality Control for Real-time Crowd Captioning Walter Lasecki and Jeffrey Bigham Designing for Individuals: Usable Touch-Screen Interaction through Shared User Models Kyle Montague, Vicki L. Hanson and Y. Cobley
10:00 — 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 — 12:00	Visual Impairment Simulation Session Chair: Shari Trewin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) PassChords: Secure Multi-Touch Authentication for Blind People Shiri Azenkot, Kyle Rector, Richard Ladner and Jacob Wobbrock "So That’s What You See!" Building Understanding with Personalized Simulations of Color Vision Deficiency David Flatla and Carl Gutwin Evaluation of Dynamic Image Pre-Compensation for Computer Users with Severe Refractive Error Jian Huang, Armando Barreto and Malek Adjouadi
12:00 — 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00	Sign Language Session Chair: Raja Kushalnagar (Rochester Institute of Technology) Effect of Presenting Video as a Baseline During an American Sign Language Animation User Study Pengfei Lu and Hernisa Kacorri Design and Evaluation of Classifier for Identifying Sign Language Videos in Video Sharing Sites Caio Monteiro, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna and Frank Shipman
14:00 — 14:30	Wrap-up and Awards ASSETS 2012 Thank yous Matt Huenerfauth (General Chair) ASSETS 2012 Awards Sri Kurniawan (Program Chair) ACM Student Research Competition Awards Simon Harper (SRC Chair) ASSETS 2013 Preview Clayton Lewis (ASSETS 2013 General Chair)
14:30 — 17:30	Smart House Tours See Special Events page for details.

Poster Session 1 (Monday, October 22nd, 14:30 - 16:00)



• An Electronic Textile Wearable Communication Board for Individuals with Autism for Horse Therapy
  Halley Profita
• Tongible: A Non-contact Tongue-based Interaction Technique
  Shuo Niu; Li Liu; Jingjing Ren; Chenglei Yang
• Effectiveness of the Haptic Chair in Speech Training
  Suranga Nanayakkara; Lonce Wyse; Elizabeth A. Taylor
• Access to UML diagrams with the HUTN
  Helmut Vieritz; Daniel Schilberg
• An Interactive Play Mat for Deaf-blind Infants
  Crystal O'Bryan; Amina Parvez; Dianne Pawluk
• Investigating Authentication Methods Used by Individuals with Down Syndrome
  Yao Ma; Jinjuan Feng; Libby Kumin; Jonathan Lazar; Lakshmidevi Sreeramareddy
• WatchMe: Wrist-worn interface that makes remote monitoring seamless
  Shanaka Ransiri; Suranga Nanayakkara
• Musica Parlata: a software to teach music to blind people
  Alfredo Capozzi; Roberto De Prisco; Michele Nasti; Rocco Zaccagnino
• Supporting Employment Matching with Mobile Interfaces
  Ziyi Zhang; Scott McCrickard; Shea Tanis; Clayton Lewis
• Combining Emotion and Facial Nonmanual Signals in Synthesized American Sign Language
  Jerry Schnepp; Rosalee Wolfe; John McDonald; Jorge Toro
• Displaying Braille and Graphics with a “Tactile Mouse”
  Victoria E. Hribar; Laura G. Deal; Dianne T.V. Pawluk
• A Participatory Design Workshop on Accessible Apps and Games with Students with Learning Differences
  Lisa Anthony; Sapna Prasad; Amy Hurst; Ravi Kuber
• Hybrid Auditory Feedback: A New Method for Mobility Assistance of the Visually Impaired
  Ibrar Hussain; Ling Chen; Hamid Turab Mirza; Abdul Majid; Gencai Chen
• ClickerAID: A Tool for Efficient Clicking Using Intentional Muscle Contractions
  Torsten Felzer; Stephan Rinderknecht
• It Is Not a Talking Book; It Is More Like Really Reading a Book!
  Yasmine El-Glaly; Francis Quek; Tonya Smith-Jackson; Gurjot Dhillon
• ^DEMO IDEAL: a Dyslexic-Friendly E-Book Reader
  Gaurang Kanvinde; Luz Rello; Ricardo Baeza-Yates
• ^DEMO FEPS: A Sensory Substitution System for the Blind to Perceive Facial Expressions
  M. Iftekhar Tanveer; A.S.M. Iftekhar Anam; A.K.M. Mahbubur Rahman; Sreya Ghosh; Mohammed Yeasin
• ^DEMO SlideCHAT: A Continuous Motion Overlay System for Icon-Based AAC
  Karl Wiegand; Rupal Patel
• ^DEMO Automated Description Generation for Indoor Floor Maps
  Devi Paladugu; Himabindu Maguluri; Qiongjie Tian; Baoxin Li
• ^DEMO EZ Ballot with Multimodal Inputs and Outputs
  Seunghyun "Tina" Lee; Xiao Xiong; Liu Elaine Yilin; Jon Sanford
• ^DEMO Breath Mobile – A Software-Based Hands-free and Voice-free Breathing Controlled Mobile Phone Interface
  Jackson Feijó Filho; Wilson Prata; Thiago Valle
• ^DEMO Tapulator: A Non-Visual Calculator using Natural Prefix-Free Codes
  Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk; Shiri Azenkot; Richard Ladner
• ^DEMO Design Goals for a System for Enhancing AAC with Personalized Video
  Katie O'Leary; Charles Delahunt; Patricia Dowden; Ivan Darmansya; Jiaqi Heng; Eve Riskin; Richard Ladner; Jacob Wobbrock
• ^SRC Accessible Skimming: Faster Screen Reading Of Web Pages
  Faisal Ahmed
• ^SRC Accessible Web Automation Interface: A User Study
  Yury Puzis
• ^SRC Detecting Hunchback Behavior In Autistic Children With Smart Phone Assistive Devices
  Shu-Hsien Lin
• ^SRC Detecting The Hand-Mouthing Behavior Of Children With Intellectual Disability Using Kinect Imaging Technology
  Tzu-Wei Wei
• ^SRC Face Tracking User Interfaces Using Vision-Based Consumer Devices
  Norman Villaroman
• ^SRC Kinempt: A Kinect-Based Prompting System To Transition Autonomously Through Vocational Tasks For Individuals With Cognitive Impairments
  Yu-Chi Tsai
• ^SRC Reusable Game Interfaces For People With Disabilities
  Javier Torrente, Pablo Moreno-Ger and Baltasar Fernández-Manjón
• ^SRC Wii Remote As A Customizable Web Navigation Device For People With Cerebral Palsy
  Nithin Santhanam, Shari Trewin, Cal Swart and Padmanabhan Santhanam

Poster Session 2 (Tuesday, October 23rd, 14:00 - 15:30)



• Toward the Development of a BCI and Gestural Interface to Support Individuals with Physical Disabilities
  Kavita Krishnaswamy; Ravi Kuber
• Assistive System Experiment Designer ASED: A Toolkit for the Quantitative Evaluation of Enhanced Assistive Systems for Impaired Persons in Production
  Oliver Korn; Albrecht Schmidt; Thomas Hörz; Daniel Kaupp
• Optimizing Gaze Typing for People with Severe Motor Disabilities: The iWriter Arabic Interface
  Areej Al-Wabil; Arwa Al-Issa; May Al-Humaimeedi; Etessam Al-Hazza; Lujain Al-Tamimi; Bushra Al-Kadhi
• Toward a Design of Word Processing Environment for People with Disabilities
  Adam Sporka; Ondrej Polacek
• Preliminary Evaluation of Three Eyes-Free Interfaces for Point-and-Click Computer Games
  Javier Torrente; Eugenio J Marchiori; José-Ángel Vallejo-Pinto; Manuel Ortega-Moral; Pablo Moreno-Ger; Baltasar Fernández-Manjón
• Accessible Collaborative Writing for Persons Who Are Blind: A Usability Study
  John Schoeberlein; Yuanqiung Wang
• E-Arithmetic: Non-Visual Arithmetic Manipulation for Students with Impaired Vision
  Nancy Alajarmeh ; Enrico Pontelli
• A Music Application for Visually Impaired People Using Daily Goods and Stationeries on the Table
  Ikuko Eguchi Yairi; Takuya Takeda
• A Feasibility Study of Crowdsourcing and Google Street View to Determine Sidewalk Accessibility
  Kotaro Hara; Victoria Le; Jon Froehlich
• Replicating Semantic Connections Made by Visual Readers for a Scanning System for Nonvisual Readers
  Debra Yarrington; Kathleen McCoy
• MeetUp: A Universally Designed Smartphone Application To Find Another
  Matt Moyers; Nara Kim
• Gesture Interface Magnifiers for Low-Vision Users
  Seunghyun "Tina" Lee; Jon Sanford
• 3D Point of Gaze Estimation Using Head-mounted RGB-D Cameras
  Christopher McMurrough; Christopher Conly; Vassilis Athitsos; Fillia Makedon
• Displaying Error and Uncertainty in Auditory Graphs
  Jared Batterman; Bruce Walker
• Visualizations for Self-Analysis of Performance in Mouse Use for Older Adults
  Jasmine Jones; Steven Hall; Mieke Gentis; Carrie Rennolds; Chitra Gadwal; Amy Hurst; Judah Ronch
• ^DEMO Blue Herd: Automated Captioning for Videoconferences
  Ira Forman; Ben Fletcher; John Hartley; Bill Rippon; Allen Wilson
• ^DEMO Toward Non-visual-cueing-based Surroundings' Insight
  Juan Diego Gomez; Guido Bologna; Thierry Pun
• ^DEMO Liberi and the Racer Bike: Exergaming Technology for Children with Cerebral Palsy
  Zi ye; Hamilton A Hernandez; T.C. Nicholas Graham; Darcy Fehlings; Lauren Switzer; Irina Schumann
• ^DEMO A Texture-Based Solution for Turning Off-The-Shelf Software into a Biofeedback Training System
  Regan Mandryk; Michael Kalyn; Andre Doucette; Brett Taylor; Shane Dielschneider
• ^DEMO Smart phone application for indoor scene localization
  Nabeel Khan; Brendan McCane
• ^DEMO Specialized DVD Player to render Audio description and its usability performance
  Claude Chapdelaine
• ^DEMO What is wrong with this word? Dyseggxia: a game with exercises for dyslexics
  Luz Rello; Clara Bayarri; Azuki Gorriz
• ^DC Towards Human-Centered Optimization of Mobile Sign Language Video Communication
  Jessica J. Tran, University of Washington
• ^DC Semantic Disambiguation of Non-Syntactic and Continuous Motion Text Entry for Icon-Based AAC
  Karl Wiegand, Northeastern
• ^DC Parameterized Models of Linguistic Facial Expressions for American Sign Language Animation
  Hernisa Kacorri, The Graduate Center CUNY
• ^DC Spatial representations in the blind: contribution of multimodal interactive maps
  Anke Brock, IRIT University of Toulouse & CNRS
• ^DC Enabling Spatial Reading Using Multi-modal System For Individuals With Blindness
  Yasmine El-Glaly, Virginia Tech
• ^DC Scenario-Based Design of an Digital Reminiscing System for the Elderly
  Elizabeth Thiry, Penn State
• ^DC Web Accessibility
  Valentyn Melnyk, Stony Brook University
• ^DC Touch It, Key It, Speak It
  Sina Bahram, NC State
• ^DC Making Web Localisation Accessible between Communities
  Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez, University of Geneva
• ^DC An interdisciplinary methodology for designing and implementing educational tools for children and youth with special needs
  Benoît Bossavit, Public University of Navarra