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Date: 6/18/98 10:38 PM
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Dear Prof Coombs,
I would like to ask you to post the following notice in
any of the distribution lists that you coordinate. I
believe that it could be of interest to many subscribers
since it is the first time the TIDE Congress (Directorate
General XIII, European Commission) will be webcasted.
Feel free to edit/modify.
Best Regards,
Carlos
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ISdAC WILL WEBCAST THE 3rd TIDE CONGRESS
The Information Society disAbilities Challenge (ISdAC,
http://www.isdac.org/ ) will webcast for the first time
some of the sessions of the 3rd TIDE Congress held in
Helsinki (Finland) this month. TIDE (Telematics Initiative
for the Disabled and the Elderly, DG-XIII, European
Commission) will organize its third Congress with the
collaboration of STAKES (Finland).
Thanks to the effort of ISdAC and the Periphera programme,
together with STAKES and HTY, a webcast will be launched
to offer to the community of People with Disabilities and
Designers of Assistive Technology products and services the
latest developments in the European Union in AT.
Further info can be obtained at:
http://www.stakes.fi/tidecong/
(All times correspond to Helsinki Local Time)
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* TUESDAY 23rd June
09:00-10:00 Opening : Plenary
General introduction to webcast and welcome: Egidio Ballabio
Chair: E Ballabio EC & Vapu Taipale Stakes
Ms Tertu Huttu-Juntunen Minister of Social affairs and Health
Commissioner Erkki Liikanen
Speeches :
Pier Luigi Emiliani, Assitive Technology in Europe
Katherine Seelman, AT in USA
Shigeru Yamauchi, AT in Japan
10:00-10:30 Session 1 & 2 - Keynote speech : Plenary
Design for all and Accessibility
Gregg Vanderheiden
10:30-11:00 Session 3, 4 & 5 - Keynote speech : Plenary
Users involvement
Christine Marking EurolinkAge and Bas Treffers EDF
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 1.1
ACCESS AND ACCESSIBILITIES IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETIES
Introduction to webcast: Inmaculada Placencia
- Designing Access to IT-Services
I.C. Marianne Karlsson
- Improving Access to Computers for Blind and
Visually-Impaired - the Development of the
Test-Method for Usability
Stig Becker, Dan Lundman
- Library Access for the Blind
Richard T. Tucker
- Automated Production of a Daily Electronic Newspaper:
Exploitation Results
Geert Bormans
14:00-14:30 Session 6, 7 & 8: keynote speech
Assistive Technology R&D
Alan Newell, Dundee University
14:00-16:00 Session 2.2
GOOD PRACTICE ON DESIGN FOR ALL
Introduction to webcast: Ivor Ambrose
- Commercial Design for All Homebrain
Henk T. J. Janssen, Herman van der Vegt, Jos Bruins
- Design for All
Jim Sandhu
- Universal Services - and Issue for All
Jan-Ingvar Lindstr=F6m
- Good Practices of Design for All in Two Case Studies
Ad van Berlo
16:30-18:00 Session 3.2
USER EMPOWERMENT
Introduction to webcast: Ronan Burgess
- Elderly on Internet: 2 Years of Experience with Special
Courses and Design of Course Material
Ad van Berlo
- Development and Adaptions in Industrial Work for People
with Intellectual Disabilities
Susanne Barkvik, Pia Martensson
- Developing an Adaptive Learning Environment for the
Disabled
Jaakko Kurhila
- Training under Project APHRODITE
Ger Craddock, Harry Murphy
- The Liberty of Life through Social Technology 1995-1999
Tuula Ikonen Coordinator et al.
* WEDNESDAY 24th June
10:00-11:00 ISdAC's workshop
Introduction to webcast: Frank Greco
11:30-13:00 Session 3.3
USER TRAINING AND LEARNING
Introduction to webcast: Frank Greco
- FORTUNE - Support to user orientated R&D
Christian B=FChler
- Experiences of User Involvement in Development and
Services Concerning IT based AAT Aids
Mats Lundalv, Marcia Bengtsson, Stefan Blom,
Anders Gustafsson, Mikael Wikberg
- User Involvement in the Tasc Project
Gunnar Fagerberg
- Assistive Technology Education for the End Users
the Eustat Perspective
Renzo Andrich
14:00-15:30 Session 8.3
PRODUCTION METHODS
Introduction to webcast: Michael Underwood
- Improving PC-Based Assistive Technology by Telematic
Service Provision
Wolfgang L. Zagler
- Niche Product Design, a New Model for Assistive Technology
W. S. Harwin
- Using the Internet in Project Management
Alistair Edwards
- Design for All in the TIDE ACCESS Project
C.Stephanidis, P. L. Emiliani
16:00-18:00 Software accesibility workshop
Introduction to webcast: Jorge Santos
* THURSDAY 25th June
11:00-13:00 Session 8.4
ECONOMICS AND POLICY
Introduction to webcast: Jorge Santos
- Economic Aspects of Flexible Braille Production
Using Present-Day
Fran=E7ois Guido
- Certain Cost Utility analysis
Jan Persson
- A Case for Professional Organisations to Take
Special Interest in the Area of Disability
Geoff Busby
- The Information Society disAbilities Challenge (ISdAC)
Carlos A. Velasco
- Increasing the IMPACT of Assistive Technology
Jan Steyaert
14:00-15:30 WORKSHOP ON 5th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
15:30-16:00 CLOSING PLENARY
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Carlos A. Velasco | Information Society
ATEC, S.L. | disAbilities Challenge
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