USAB 2009: Linz, Austria

Keynote: New Trends in Human-Computer Interaction

• Yvonne Rogers:
  The Changing Face of Human-Computer Interaction in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. 1-19
  

Age, Attitudes, Abilities, Acceptance, Attention: Gender and Cognitive Performance

• Katrin Arning, Martina Ziefle:
  Different Perspectives on Technology Acceptance: The Role of Technology Type and Age. 20-41
  
• Effie Lai-Chong Law, Tim Gamble, Daniel Schwarz, Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Andreas Holzinger:
  A Mixed-Method Approach on Digital Educational Games for K12: Gender, Attitudes and Performance. 42-54
  
• Chiara Martinengo, Francesco Curatelli:
  Improving Cognitive Abilities and e-Inclusion in Children with Cerebral Palsy. 55-68
  
• Sonja Stork, Isabella Hild, Mathey Wiesbeck, Michael F. Zaeh, Anna Schubö:
  Finding Relevant Items: Attentional Guidance Improves Visual Selection Processes. 69-80
  

Usefulness, Usability, Accessibility, Emotion: Confidence and the Elderly

• Wiktoria Wilkowska, Martina Ziefle:
  Which Factors Form Older Adults' Acceptance of Mobile Information and Communication Technologies? 81-101
  
• Özge Subasi, Michael Leitner, Manfred Tscheligi:
  A Usability and Accessibility Design and Evaluation Framework for ICT Services. 102-110
  
• Joseph P. Wherton, David Prendergast:
  The Building Bridges Project: Involving Older Adults in the Design of a Communication Technology to Support Peer-to-Peer Social Engagement. 111-134
  
• Anna Esposito, Maria Teresa Riviello, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis:
  Cultural Specific Effects on the Recognition of Basic Emotions: A Study on Italian Subjects. 135-148
  

Usability Testing, Evaluation, Measurement: Education, Learning and e-Inclusion

• Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan:
  Digital Literacy - Is It Necessary for eInclusion? 149-158
  
• Caterina Senette, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini:
  Enhancing Wikipedia Editing with WAI-ARIA. 159-177
  
• Andreas Holzinger, Christian Stickel, Markus Fassold, Martin Ebner:
  Seeing the System through the End Users' Eyes: Shadow Expert Technique for Evaluating the Consistency of a Learning Management System. 178-192
  
• Giovanni Paolo Caruso, Lucia Ferlino:
  Accessibility of Educational Software: A Problem Still to Be Solved. 193-208
  

Special Session: Design for Adaptive Content Processing

• Atta Badii, David Fuschi, Ali Khan, Adedayo Adetoye:
  Accessibility-by-Design: A Framework for Delivery-Context-Aware Personalised Media Content Re-purposing. 209-226
  
• Ludek Bártek:
  Generating Dialogues from the Description of Structured Data. 227-235
  
• Antonello Calabrò, Elia Contini, Barbara Leporini:
  Book4All: A Tool to Make an e-Book More Accessible to Students with Vision/Visual-Impairments. 236-248
  
• Aimilios Chalamandaris, Spyros Raptis, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Sotiris Karabetsos:
  Enhancing Accessibility of Web Content for the Print-Impaired and Blind People. 249-263
  

Heuristics and Theory Based Research: Grounded Theory, Activity Theory and Situated Action

• Per-Olof Hedvall:
  Towards the Era of Mixed Reality: Accessibility Meets Three Waves of HCI. 264-278
  
• Zahid Hussain, Wolfgang Slany, Andreas Holzinger:
  Investigating Agile User-Centered Design in Practice: A Grounded Theory Perspective. 279-289
  
• Lourdes Moreno, Paloma Martínez, Belén Ruíz-Mezcua:
  A Bridge to Web Accessibility from the Usability Heuristics. 290-300
  
• Günther Schreder, Karin Siebenhandl, Eva Mayr:
  E-Inclusion in Public Transport: The Role of Self-efficacy. 301-311
  

Special Session: Smart Home, Health and Ambient Assisted Living

• Sylvia Gaul, Martina Ziefle:
  Smart Home Technologies: Insights into Generation-Specific Acceptance Motives. 312-332
  
• Spyros Raptis, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Aimilios Chalamandaris, Sotiris Karabetsos:
  User Interaction Design for a Home-Based Telecare System. 333-344
  
• Johannes Oberzaucher, Katharina Werner, Harald P. Mairböck, Christian Beck, Paul Panek, Walter Hlauschek, Wolfgang L. Zagler:
  A Videophone Prototype System Evaluated by Elderly Users in the Living Lab Schwechat. 345-352
  
• Martin Morandell, Andreas Hochgatterer, Bernhard Wöckl, Sandra Dittenberger, Sascha Fagel:
  Avatars@Home. 353-365
  
• André Calero Valdez, Martina Ziefle, Andreas Horstmann, Daniel Herding, Ulrik Schroeder:
  Effects of Aging and Domain Knowledge on Usability in Small Screen Devices for Diabetes Patients. 366-386
  

User Centred Design and Usability Practice: Showcases and Surveys

• Theofanis Oikonomou, Konstantinos Votis, Peter Korn, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Spriridon Likothanasis:
  A Standalone Vision Impairments Simulator for Java Swing Applications. 387-398
  
• Kathleen Asjes:
  AltText: A Showcase of User Centred Design in the Netherlands. 399-404
  
• Chufeng Chen, José L. Abdelnour-Nocera, Stephen Wells, Nora Pan:
  Usability Practice in Medical Imaging Application Development. 405-415
  
• Zahid Hussain, Wolfgang Slany, Andreas Holzinger:
  Current State of Agile User-Centered Design: A Survey. 416-427
  

Applications and Analyses: Interaction, Assistive Technologies and Virtual Environments

• Pradipta Biswas, Peter Robinson:
  Predicting Pointing Time from Hand Strength. 428-447
  
• Bettina Grünzweil, Michael Haller:
  Analyzing Interaction Techniques Using Mouse and Keyboard for Preschool Children. 448-456
  
• Nadia Diraä, Jan Engelen, Pol Ghesquière, Koen Neyens:
  The Use of ICT to Support Students with Dyslexia. 457-462
  
• Cecilia Sik-Lányi:
  Investigating of Memory - Colours of Intellectually Disabled Children and Virtual Game Addict Students. 463-475
  

Analyses and Investigations: Communication, Interfaces and Haptic Technology

• Oussama El Ghoul, Mohamed Jemni:
  A Sign Language Screen Reader for Deaf. 476-483
  
• Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Pepi Stavropoulou, Georgios Kouroupetroglou:
  Spoken Dialogue Interfaces: Integrating Usability. 484-499
  
• Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini, Fahim Akhter:
  Usability and Accessibility of eBay by Screen Reader. 500-510
  
• Christophe Ponsard, Joelle Sutera, Michael Henin:
  Video Relay Service for Signing Deaf - Lessons Learnt from a Pilot Study. 511-522
  
• Fannar Freyr Jónsson, Ebba Þóra Hvannberg:
  Using a Log Analyser to Assist Research into Haptic Technology. 523-531
  

Closing: New Technologies and Challenges for People with Disabilities

• Giuliano Pirelli:
  Usability in Public Services and Border Control. 532-552