The following document reports evaluation studies that were carried out on a prototype for genera... more The following document reports evaluation studies that were carried out on a prototype for generating multiple interfaces for mobile devices. The evaluation primarily entailed assessing the usability and accessibility of the prototype as far as the interface generation process is concerned.
The present paper describes a study on the use of the International Classification of Functioning... more The present paper describes a study on the use of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organization (WHO) for modelling the interaction between humans and devices within the context of the Information Society. An extension of the human abilities section of ICF and an ICF-like classification for ICT interactions and the environment are proposed.
The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There... more The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There is a need to have design tools for modeling user interfaces that are adapted to the characteristics of the context. Moreover, there is the need to ensure that the realized user interfaces are assessed and refined accordingly (in an iterative manner) toward ensuring
The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every pa... more The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every part of any system and service, in order to be able to regard that system or service as having the characteristic of being plastic, irrespective of user needs and system (especially device) capabilities. The discussion, which is based on examples of people with visual impairments and blind persons accessing the web, will take into account mainly WAI principles and guidelines, in addition to the results of accessibility tests recently conducted at CNR - IFAC (Florence, Italy).
An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to t... more An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to the ongoing technological developments. The paper aims to show that a designed for all AmI environment can have a positive impact on people with activity limitations in the long term and that the technology made available for the implementation of the AmI concepts can offer new
This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services dev... more This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides services suited to different mobile devices. The discussion is aimed at highlighting the methodology adopted, which is tailored to characteristics of mobile computing and the relative results obtained.
Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent the... more Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent their being understood by disabled users. Content Management Systems are a widespread class of products that enable the creation, archiving and publishing of information on web. This paper discusses how to relate accessibility with CMS, starting from some key functions of this family of products.
The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There... more The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There is a need to have design tools for modeling user interfaces that are adapted to the characteristics of the context. Moreover, there is the need to ensure that the realized user interfaces are assessed and refined accordingly (in an iterative manner) toward ensuring
The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every pa... more The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every part of any system and service, in order to be able to regard that system or service as having the characteristic of being plastic, irrespective of user needs and system (especially device) capabilities. The discussion, which is based on examples of people with visual impairments and blind persons accessing the web, will take into account mainly WAI principles and guidelines, in addition to the results of accessibility tests recently conducted at CNR - IFAC (Florence, Italy).
An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to t... more An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to the ongoing technological developments. The paper aims to show that a designed for all AmI environment can have a positive impact on people with activity limitations in the long term and that the technology made available for the implementation of the AmI concepts can offer new integration possibilities for them in the short/medium term, reintroducing innovation in Assistive Technology.
This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services dev... more This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides services suited to different mobile devices. The discussion is aimed at highlighting the methodology adopted, which is tailored to characteristics of mobile computing and the relative results obtained.
Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent the... more Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent their being understood by disabled users. Content Management Systems are a widespread class of products that enable the creation, archiving and publishing of information on web. This paper discusses how to relate accessibility with CMS, starting from some key functions of this family of products.
The following document reports evaluation studies that were carried out on a prototype for genera... more The following document reports evaluation studies that were carried out on a prototype for generating multiple interfaces for mobile devices. The evaluation primarily entailed assessing the usability and accessibility of the prototype as far as the interface generation process is concerned.
The present paper describes a study on the use of the International Classification of Functioning... more The present paper describes a study on the use of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organization (WHO) for modelling the interaction between humans and devices within the context of the Information Society. An extension of the human abilities section of ICF and an ICF-like classification for ICT interactions and the environment are proposed.
The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There... more The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There is a need to have design tools for modeling user interfaces that are adapted to the characteristics of the context. Moreover, there is the need to ensure that the realized user interfaces are assessed and refined accordingly (in an iterative manner) toward ensuring
The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every pa... more The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every part of any system and service, in order to be able to regard that system or service as having the characteristic of being plastic, irrespective of user needs and system (especially device) capabilities. The discussion, which is based on examples of people with visual impairments and blind persons accessing the web, will take into account mainly WAI principles and guidelines, in addition to the results of accessibility tests recently conducted at CNR - IFAC (Florence, Italy).
An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to t... more An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to the ongoing technological developments. The paper aims to show that a designed for all AmI environment can have a positive impact on people with activity limitations in the long term and that the technology made available for the implementation of the AmI concepts can offer new
This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services dev... more This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides services suited to different mobile devices. The discussion is aimed at highlighting the methodology adopted, which is tailored to characteristics of mobile computing and the relative results obtained.
Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent the... more Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent their being understood by disabled users. Content Management Systems are a widespread class of products that enable the creation, archiving and publishing of information on web. This paper discusses how to relate accessibility with CMS, starting from some key functions of this family of products.
The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There... more The HCI community is yet to fully come to terms with the ramifications of mobile computing. There is a need to have design tools for modeling user interfaces that are adapted to the characteristics of the context. Moreover, there is the need to ensure that the realized user interfaces are assessed and refined accordingly (in an iterative manner) toward ensuring
The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every pa... more The present document addresses the need to consider as pre- eminent the accessibility of every part of any system and service, in order to be able to regard that system or service as having the characteristic of being plastic, irrespective of user needs and system (especially device) capabilities. The discussion, which is based on examples of people with visual impairments and blind persons accessing the web, will take into account mainly WAI principles and guidelines, in addition to the results of accessibility tests recently conducted at CNR - IFAC (Florence, Italy).
An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to t... more An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to the ongoing technological developments. The paper aims to show that a designed for all AmI environment can have a positive impact on people with activity limitations in the long term and that the technology made available for the implementation of the AmI concepts can offer new integration possibilities for them in the short/medium term, reintroducing innovation in Assistive Technology.
This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services dev... more This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate accessibility and usability of services developed by the MAIS Designer, a new design tool that provides services suited to different mobile devices. The discussion is aimed at highlighting the methodology adopted, which is tailored to characteristics of mobile computing and the relative results obtained.
Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent the... more Accessibility tries to avoid introducing in web pages any kind of barriers that might prevent their being understood by disabled users. Content Management Systems are a widespread class of products that enable the creation, archiving and publishing of information on web. This paper discusses how to relate accessibility with CMS, starting from some key functions of this family of products.
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