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Call for paper

International workshop on  Intelligent Information Technologies for Blind
and Visually Impaired Peoples (IITBVIP2009-) To be held in conjunction with
the 10th IEEE  International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
Applications, ISDA’10

Under the framework of the 10th IEEE  International Conference on
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA’10
November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt
Conference web page: http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/
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Technically sponsored by:
Sponsor :

Machine Intelligence Research Labs


Technical Sponsors:

Egypt IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter
IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE - SMC)
International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) (pending approval)
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (pending approval)

The World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC) (pending approval)

Technically Supported by:

IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Soft
Computing
IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Granular
Computing

Proceedings published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore

Disabled people should be able to play their part in our information society
using new technologies under the same conditions as any other citizen. There
are now tools that, to a greater or lesser extent, can alleviate the
difficulties arising from visual impairment, and there are also design
standards for Web pages that make Internet access possible for the visually
impaired who, in turn, should commit to accessibility by using and helping
to develop the new solutions.  The two fundamental problems facing blind
people are the difficulty of knowing where they are and getting about, and
the impossibility of having direct access to information, whether in written
or in electronic form. The introduction of computer technology into the
work-place and education has had a great impact on opportunities available
to visually disabled people in both education and employment. For example,
Deaf-Blind people can be guided and can obtain various types of information
by using a wearable computer equipped with the Finger-Braille device and an
RFID tag reader. Moreover, Communication support technology and position
identification technology are essential to support Deaf-Blind people. As
communication interfaces, we proposed wearable Finger-Braille interfaces
which are hands-free and can communicate with others in real-time.  Learners
with visual impairment need to acquire basic competencies in the
communication and information society and enjoy the same learning
opportunities in ICT as their sighted counterparts. Sighted children
observe, imitate, and are constantly surrounded by technology. They press
buttons, touch computers and “play” on them whenever they are allowed to.
However, visually impaired children need help and support at this initial
stage. They require existing resources to be adapted to their needs and
presented to them by others. To give people with visual disabilities the
chance to have access to multimedia games should be seen as an important
issue for better inclusion and participation in society. Designing games
that work for visually impaired children is quite a challenge since the main
feedback channel in games is usually visual. Indeed even if audio is more
and more used in mainstream games, it has only a complementary role in a
huge majority of cases. It improves the experience of the player but it is
usually not bringing necessary pieces of information that the player would
not get visually. For instance most of these games can be played efficiently
with sound switched off.
This workshop will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal
with the   intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually
Impaired Peoples using intelligent computing   and virtual reality
technologies as an emerging research area.
• Computer Vision Tools for Visually Impaired Children Learning
• Virtual reality technologies for blind people  and people with special
needs
• Intelligent Image Processing for blind  and Visually Impaired Peoples
• Computer Games and Visually Impaired People
• Improving the Reality Perception of Visually Impaired through Pervasive
Computing
• Virtual Leading Blocks for the Deaf-Blind
• Wearable Finger-Braille Interface for Navigation of Deaf-Blind in
Ubiquitous
• Access to Scientific Content by Visually Impaired People
• Intelligent Game Accessibility for blind and Visually Impaired People
• Intelligent navigating in speech for blind
• Augmented Indoor Modeling for Navigation Support for the Blind
• Web based information system for blind and  visually impaired
• Creation of a virtual acoustic space Haptic virtual reality for blind
• RFID in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired.
• Interact with computer-generated graphical information for Blind people
• Initial design and evaluation of an interface to hypermedia systems for
blind users
• Issue of Technical Assistance for Blind People
• Assistive Technology for the Blind
• Design of an Intelligence Auditory Interfaces
• Designing an intelligent haptic computer interfaces for blind people
• Interpretation and understanding of complex scientific data for blind
peoples
• Indoor navigation system for blind individuals with impaired vision
• An Intelligent Mobility System for  for  visually impaired peoples
Instructions for Authors:

Submission of paper should be made through the submission link in ISDA2010
official website
(http://cig.iet.unipi.it/isda2010/) Please refer to the conference website
for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be
compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society's
Conference Publishing Services. It is mandatory at least an author registers
for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings
will be made available during the conference.
Expanded versions of ISDA2010  selected papers will be published in special
issues of internationally referred journals.
Tentative Dates of Submission and Acceptance
-  Paper submission: July  17, 2010
-  Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2010
-  Camera-ready manuscript submission: September 20, 2010
-  Registration deadline: September 20, 2010

Workshop Chairs

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Aboul Ella Hassanien
Cairo University,
Faculty of Computers and Information,
Cairo,  Egypt
Aboitcairo@gmail.com
Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute,
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland
Email: kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~kacprzyk