The Austrian Computer Society and the University of Linz announce

8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special
Needs ICCHP '02

15 - 20 July 2002 University of  Linz, Austria

http://www.aib.uni-linz.ac.at/icchp02.html

"The Conference's mission is to make the Information Society accessible
and usable for all and that special needs and abilities of all are taken
into account. Come and get involved!"
        Harry J. Murphy, General Chair of ICCHP 2002

ICCHP conferences focus on all aspects of information, communication and
assistive technology for people with disabilities and elderly people.

Deadline for abstracts:
January 31, 2002
Deadline for full papers:
May 1, 2002

ICCHP offers a unique platform for outstanding researchers, practitioners
and experts to present their work on all aspects of information,
communication and assistive technology for people with disabilities and
elderly people.

- Specialists are invited to organize and chair Specific Thematic Topics
within the framework of the conference
- Contributions will be published in SPRINGER Lecture Notes in Computer
Science
        http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html
- ICCHP wants to foster the transfer of know-how between research and
practice and to increase the audience to the outstanding presentations.
Authors and non-publishing participants (e.g. project consortia) are
invited to take part at a very low participation fee. Rooms and facilities
for meetings of project and other consortia will be provided
- Companies are invited to take part in the exhibition and to give more
intensive introductions in product workshops and seminars

Conference office:
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Dr. Klaus Miesenberger / Barbara Arrer
Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz
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Phone: + 43 732 2468-9853
Fax:  + 43 732 2468 9322