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Approximately half of the elderly people over 55 suffer from some type of typically mild visual, auditory, motor or cognitive impairment. For them interaction, especially with PCs and other complex devices is sometimes challenging, although accessible ICT applications could make much of a difference for their living quality. Basically they have the potential to enable or simplify participation and inclusion in their surrounding private and professional communities. However, the availability of accessible user interfaces being capable to adapt to the specific needs and requirements of users with individual impairments is very limited. Although there are a number of APIs [1, 2, 3, 4] available for various platforms that allow developers to provide accessibility features within their applications, today none of them provides features for the automatic adaptation of multimodal interfaces being capable to automatically fit the individual requirements of users with different kinds of impairments. Moreover, the provision of accessible user interfaces is still expensive and risky for application developers, as they need special experience and effort for user tests. Today many implementations simply neglect the needs of elderly people, thus locking out a large portion of their potential users. The workshop is organized as part of the dissemination activity for the European-funded project GUIDE ”Gentle user interfaces for elderly people”, which aims to address this situation with a comprehensive approach for the realization of multimodal user interfaces being capable to adapt to the needs of users with different kinds of mild impairments. As application platform, GUIDE will mainly target TVs and Set-Top Boxes, such as the emerging Connected-TV or WebTV platforms, as they have the potential to address the needs of the elderly users with applications such as for home automation, communication or continuing education.
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AT-SPI Toolkit, Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface
GNOME ATK, Accessibilty Toolkit
MSAA, Microsoft Active Accessibility API, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms697707
JAAPI, Java Accessibility API, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/j2se/javase/technologies/accessibility/docs/jaccess-1.2/doc/core-api.html
CEN/CENELEC Guide 6, Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities (January 2002)
HbbTV, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV, www.hbbtv.org
OpenTV, www.OpenTV.com
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Hahn, V., Hamisu, P., Jung, C., Heinrich, G., Duarte, C., Langdon, P. (2010). Workshop AccessibleTV ”Accessible User Interfaces for Future TV Applications”. In: de Ruyter, B., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16917-5_45
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