Call for Papers

Designing Inclusive Futures:
"Creating a better balance of work, living and leisure, for disability and
ageing" 

The 4th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access (UA) and Assistive Technology
(AT) : CWUAAT 2008 

13-16 April, 2008 


Workshop Theme

The workshop theme "Designing Inclusive Futures" reflects the need to explore
the issues and practicalities of design that is intended to extend our active
future lives in a coherent way. This encompasses design for inclusion: in the
workplace; for businesses; for the individual and of products in these
contexts.

The philosophy underlying inclusive design specifically extends the
definition of product users to include people who are excluded by disability
and rapidly changing technology, especially the elderly and ageing, and
prioritises the role and value of impairment and disability in innovation and
new product and service development. It also addresses the context of use,
both physical and psychological, and the complexity of interactions between
products, services and their interfaces in specific contexts of use, such as
in the workplace and during independent living. Universal access and
assistive technology are seen as key focussing domains for these issues.

The workshop aims to encourage wide-ranging discussion, co-operation and
collaboration within and between the universal access and assistive
technology research communities in the context of inclusive design. We hope
this will lead to new solutions to reduce exclusion and difficulty arising
from impairment with special application to our future lives, in the
workplace, at home and at leisure.

Following the last CWUAAT 2006 and the two previous successful events in
Cambridge in 2002 and 2004, the conference will return again to Fitzwilliam
College in Cambridge on 13th - 16th April 2008.

The general themes are:

    Designing Assistive and Rehabilitation Technology for working and daily
    living environments 

    Measuring inclusion for the design of products for work and daily living 

    Computer Access, Intelligent Environments and New Technologies for
    inclusive design 

    Accessible and Inclusive Design for work and daily living environments 

    Assembling new User Data for inclusive design

    Social, Workplace and Environmental Context of Product use 

    Legislation, Standards and Government Awareness of Inclusive Design 

Contributions on other topics relevant to Assistive Technology, Universal
access, and Inclusive Design will also be accepted. Please note that we
welcome the submission of papers that include user testing of prototype
systems or demonstrators with real users. Space and time will be available
for demonstrations of software and hardware.

We expect that the accepted long papers will be published as a book by
Springer-Verlag, UK. Short papers will be published in the proceedings.
Selected long papers will appear in a special edition of the Universal Access
in the Information Society (UAIS) journal published by Springer.

As one of the most praised aspects of CWUAAT 06, the event will again include
a Doctoral Consortium on the first morning of the conference. Candidates who
submit to the doctoral consortium will be able to attend the workshop at a
greatly reduced registration and 10 places have been allocated for this
purpose. The two presentations judged to be the best by the consortium panel
will win a podium presentation in the main workshop.


Solicited Contributions

CWUAAT aims to solicit:

    Formal papers (6-10 pages), reporting original work relevant to the
    workshop themes; 

    Poster presentations (1-2 pages abstract, 3-4 pages for camera-ready
    copy); and

    Demonstrations (1 page description)

Further details of paper format and electronic submission instructions will
be available on the conference web-site. All papers will be reviewed by at
least two members of the programme committee, and the accepted papers will be
presented during the workshop.


Important Dates

Deadline for submission of formal/position papers, poster abstracts:-  3
September, 2007 

Deadline for demonstration submissions: 1 October, 2007 

Notification of paper acceptance: 12 October, 2007 

Deadline for camera-ready version of submitted papers: 16 November, 2007 

Advance registration (ends):  18 January, 2008 

Late registration (ends): 28 February, 2008 

CWUAAT Workshop: 13-16 April, 2008 


Organizing Committee

Prof John Clarkson, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Dr Patrick Langdon, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Prof Peter Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge


Contact Informationa nd Expressions of Interest to:

    pml24@eng.cam.ac.uk
    cwuaat-enquiries@eng.cam.ac.uk
    http://rehab-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/cwuaat/cwuaat08.htm


Demonstrations

It is hoped that participants will be able to gain hands-on experience with
working systems. Space and time will be available for demonstrations of
software and hardware.

We hope you will take this chance to plan to submit a paper to CWUAAT and
look forward to seeing you in 2008.

Pat Langdon, John Clarkson, and Peter Robinson: Organising Committee for
CWUAAT'08. 


Engineering Design Centre
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
Phone: 01223 748245
Fax: 01223 766963
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