-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] International workshop on Intelligent Information Technologies for Blind and Visually Impaired Peoples (IITBVIP2009-) Datum: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:34:27 -0500 Von: Mariofanna Milanova mgmilanova@ualr.edu Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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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/ ======================================================== 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

======================= 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