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P A P E R S U B M I S
S I O N E X T E N D E D
2nd International Workshop on Web Usability
and Accessibility (IWWUA 2008)
September 1st 2008,
Auckland, New Zealand
http://
gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua08
Co-located with the 9th International Conference on Web Information
Systems Engineering (WISE 2008)
http://wise2008.mucoms.org
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According to recent studies an estimated 90% of Web sites and
applications suffer from usability
and/or accessibility problems. As user satisfaction has increased in
importance, the need for
usable Web applications has become more critical. To achieve Web
usability and accessibility,
models describing all the Web artifacts' attributes and their
relationships should be built, and
evaluation methods should be used during requirements, design and
implementation stages based on
these models. Another major challenge in industry today is to make
the Web more accessible for
everybody, including those with disabilities.
The goal of IWWUA 2008 is to bring together professionals and
researchers who are interested in
discussing recent trends and perspectives in Web usability and
accessibility. The main purpose
is to assess the effectiveness of existing approaches for the
evaluation of such two factors,
with special focus on those results that may lead to improving the
universal access in the
information society. These approaches include, but are not limited
to: review guidelines,
usability models, usability checkers, accessibility verifiers,
logging tools, automatic metric
capture tools, statistical tools, usability evaluation methods, etc.
The Workshop will allow
participants to gain insight into the state-of-the-art in usability
and accessibility for the Web.
Discussions are also planned to classify the existing works along
dimensions in order to identify
gaps in the existing practices that will lead to topics for further
research.
Some of the questions to be discussed are:
- What are the shortcomings of existing approaches for Web usability
and accessibility evaluation?
- How can the Web application usability be decomposed into a set of
measurable attributes?
- What is the suitability of existing evaluation methods for Web
interfaces?
- What are the specific usability/accessibility criteria for Web
artifacts? To what extent do
they depend on the family of applications under consideration?
- How can we broaden accessibility evaluation to involve people with
disabilities? Does it
provide a more effective solution than merely conforming to
accessibility standards?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of tools for automated
evaluation?
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite contributions discussing methodological, technical and
theoretical aspects of usability
and accessibility for Web applications. Relevant topics include, but
are not limited to:
- Usability and accessibility guidelines, factors, criteria, metrics,
patterns, and recommendations
- Ergonomic/HCI criteria and principles for the Web
- Usability and accessibility criteria for Web vertical domains
(e.g., e-commerce, e-government,
e-learning)
- Usability and accessibility evaluation of Web services
- Integration of usability and accessibility evaluation activities in
Web development processes
- Early usability evaluation (e.g., based on navigational models,
abstract Web user interfaces)
- Usability testing for the Web
- Evaluation of Web usersÕ performance and satisfaction
- Model-based evaluation for Web usability and accessibility
- Tools for automatic evaluation of Web usability and accessibility
- Usability and accessibility evaluation of multimodal Web applications
- Comparative analysis of usability/accessibility metrics
- Theoretical and empirical validation of usability/accessibility
metrics
- Empirical studies
- Industrial experiences
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit papers of a maximum of 10 pages. These
papers should clearly
emphasize the issues relevant to the workshop. Submissions will be
then evaluated according
to the relevance and originality of the work, and their ability to
stimulate the discussion
at the workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the
Springer-Verlag LNCS standard
paper format (http://www.springer.de) and be submitted electronically
in PDF format at
https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/webchair/inicial.php?id=15.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: April 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2008
Camera-ready papers: May 30, 2008
Workshop: September 1, 2008
PUBLICATION
All papers accepted for the Workshop will be published by Springer-
Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a separate volume for the WISE
Workshops. Provided that
accepted papers are substantive both in quantity and quality, a
special issue of the Universal
Access in the Information Society (UAIS) journal has been already
agreed.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Silvia Abrahao, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Valencia, Spain
Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, United Kingdom
Davide Bolchini, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Coral Calero, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Tiziana Catarci, Universita degli Studi di Roma ÔLa SapienzaÕ, Italy
Vicente Luque Centeno, University Carlos III, Spain
Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte,
Brazil
Florian Daniel, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Gerry Gaffney, Information & Design. Australia.
Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Emilio Insfran, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Valencia, Spain
Effie Lai-Chong Law, ETH ZŸrich, Switzerland
Maria Dolores Lozano, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina
Geert Poels, University of Ghent, Belgium
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Juan Carlos Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain
Jean Vanderdonckt, UniversitŽ catolique de Louvain, Belgium
Marco Winckler, University Paul Sabatier, France
SPONSORS
The Workshop is mainly sponsored by the European COST Action n°294
MAUSE (Towards the
Maturation of IT Usability Evaluation - www.cost294.org). Several
members of this COST action
are members of the Workshop Program Committee and guarantee a large
topical coverage
of the Workshop.
CONTACT
The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the address
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