<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>For anyone interested in getting involved in the future of accessible interactive television (iTV), there's a one-day workshop in Salzburg, Austria on July 2nd (you could make a long trip out of this and go to the ICCHP conference that Mark circulated also). The call for papers is attached below and more information is available on the website at <a href="http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk//workshop/index.html">http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk//workshop/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Graham.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><b>Title: Inclusive Interactive Television: Setting the Agenda for Innovative Research</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><b>One-Day Workshop organised by COST Action 294, EuroiTV 2008</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><b>Salzburg (Austria) 2<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">nd</font></sup> July 2008</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> </font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b></b><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b></b><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Technical description </font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">This workshop seeks to bring together broadcasters, industrial service designers and academics who are concerned about making Interactive Television inclusive and accessible to all citizens. Worldwide, as many countries prepare for a ‘digital switchover’, questions remain over the ‘inclusiveness’ of this emerging technology. Currently, there appears to be minimal commitment from industry to make interactive television (iTV) related services more accessible across the wide spectrum of users. Whilst contemporary design thinking tends to target at a notional ‘average’ user without impairments, an increasingly significant segment of the population does not fit this description. Therefore a different perspective is needed. Many vulnerable groups are at significant risk of being increasingly marginalized if deeper consideration is not given to the wide diversity of abilities within television viewing populations, and how this may be addressed by design. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The next phase of development involves an increase in the personalisation of services and handheld devices to enhance the iTV experience. This implies a significant challenge to designers and developers. As with every technological advance, user groups on the margins (e.g. older adults, those with sensory and cognitive impairments) are in danger of being further segregated, as digital services overwhelmingly focus on mainstream audiences. This is partly due to commercial expediency, but also due to a tendency for designers to work with a mental model of the ‘average user’ as the target group. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">iTV has both a clear imperative for ‘design-for-all’, and an opportunity to use ‘design-for-all’ as a mission that motivates exploration and innovation by practitioners working within this growing multidisciplinary field. The imperative is that a whole range of users have much to gain from, and contribute to, the next generation of digital products and services. Therefore it would be bitterly ironic if such audience groups were purposefully excluded. For example, AbilityNet in the UK <a href="http://www.abilitynet.com">www.abilitynet.com</a> have found that many users with impairments have huge enthusiasm for social software such as ‘YouTube’ and ‘MySpace’ and see them as having the potential to compensate for social difficulties caused by their impairments. However many current User Generated Content sites effectively exclude users with impairments. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The opportunity is that the vast spectrum of needs and desires represented by the population of ‘non-average’ users affords the discovery and development of pioneering solutions at the leading-edge, which may also prove to be a better fit for many other (almost-but-not-quite) ‘average’ users. The ubiquity of host technologies, innovation and diversity in the design of input devices, greater tailorability in content delivery and greater user involvement in the creation and selection of content and in all aspects of ‘interface design’ all represent this leading edge. Rather than condense design targets to ‘typical’ users, the agenda is to explore the space of possible solutions for diversity and personalisation across the wider heterogeneous population. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The considerations above suggest that ‘design-for-all’ belongs at the leading edge of iTV research. This implies the need for novel strategies in research and design that facilitate exploration of the whole user population, of the physical, psychological and social landscape, of the evolving leisure, entertainment and domestic contexts and of technology (device) and service (infrastructure) designs. This workshop seeks to set out an agenda for putting universal usability and accessibility in the forefront of iTV research innovation.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Position papers are sought from those who wish to attend. Workshop candidates are requested to send a position paper of 1000 words length (2 A4 pages) before 29/02/2008. Themes include but are not limited to:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Strategies for designing accessible social software and supporting user-generated content</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Innovation in design of handheld interaction devices to support users with impairments</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Inclusive and participatory design approaches</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Design for ubiquitous TV</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Design for supporting users with specific impairments</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Tangible interaction and iTV</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">New metaphors and models for iTV interaction</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Accessible games as a pioneer application</font></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Design for diversity (rather than an ‘average user’)</font></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Intended audience:</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> The workshop invites contributions from industrial iTV service designers, human factors practitioners, broadcasters, researchers, HE academics and students interested in design-for-all, innovation in design and the design process in general. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The workshop will begin with a plenary discussion of the major issues raised in previously submitted position statements. The discussion will be introduced by a member of the organising group presenting an overview of the interests and concerns expressed in the position statements.</font><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">This will be followed by breakout groups themed by the organising committee on the basis of papers received. Prior to the workshop, and based on the overview, a number of topics for breakout groups will be proposed together with proposed membership. The relevance of this grouping will be confirmed or amended by the plenary discussion.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The breakout groups will report to a plenary session where the rapporteurs will summarise the discussion and present the prioritised research agenda for the topic addressed by their group. An integrated agenda for research will be developed through discussion (and hopefully consensus).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The final plenary session of the workshop will discuss the practicalities of putting the research agenda into action. This will include setting up a network for future communication and collaboration. Possibilities for collaboration through FP7, an ACM Special Interest Group or other funding streams will be examined. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Workshop agenda:</font></b><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> </font></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">09.00 - Introduction and Welcome</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">09.15 - Plenary discussion: Overview of interests and concerns raised in position papers</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">10.15 - Organisation of breakout groups</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">10.30 - Coffee Break</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">11.00 - Breakout groups</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">13.00 - Lunch</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">14.00 - Continue breakout groups</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">15.00 - Coffee break</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">15.30 - Breakout group summaries</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">16.15 - Final Plenary session: future agenda</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">17.15 - Close</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "><b>Deadlines</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "> * March 14th, 2008: Workshop submission deadline</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "> * March 31st, 2008: Feedback to authors</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "> * April 25th, 2008: Submission of camera-ready papers</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; "> * July 2nd, 2008: Workshop at EuroITV2008, Salzburg, Austria</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Organizing Committee: </font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dr Mark Springett (</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><a href="mailto:m.springett@mdx.ac.uk">m.springett@mdx.ac.uk</a>) </font><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">is a member of the Interaction Design Centre and the Design-for-all research group at Middlesex University. He is a member of the Usability Professionals Association. He is a Working Group Co-ordinator for MAUSE (COST action 194). He has 19 years experience of working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, and has had a specialist interest in accessibility since 2000. His recent research includes investigations of iTV accessibility for citizens with low vision.</font></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> (primary contact)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Mr Mark Rice </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">is a researcher at the Queen Mother Research Centre, University of Dundee. He is also a board member of Capability Scotland (Scotland’s largest disability organisation). With a keen interest in the development of user interfaces and user-centered methods for non-mainstream groups, he has worked on a number of iTV-related projects in support of people with low vision, dementia, and older people per se. He has also been involved in logistically supporting (organizing committee - Pemberton, Griffiths, Masthoff) both the 1</font><sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">st</font></sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> and 2</font><sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">nd</font></sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> EuroITV conferences held in Brighton, UK. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dr Alex Carmichael</font></b><span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">is an applied cognitive ageing researcher (BA Psych, PhD Applied Experimental Cognitive Psychology [based on EC funded AUDETEL project]). He has fifteen years experience in human factors research of older users of ICT (including digital television), covering all aspects from initial requirements gathering to summative evaluation. Throughout this, his approach has aimed to emphasise ‘ageing’ as a reflection of the true diversity of the ‘normal’ population, rather than as a separate sub-group. He was involved in organising the workshop (with Newell, Mueller & Jones); </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Promoting User Sensitive Inclusive Design: Strategies for Communicating User Needs to Designers</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">, which was part of </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Accessible Design in the Digital World</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> Conference, 23-25 August, 2005, Dundee. He was also involved (as part of the UTOPIA Project team) in organising </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">In Search of Utopia</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">, a workshop aimed primarily at people from industry to raise awareness about the requirements of older adult users of ICT, held on the 20th April 2004 in Edinburgh.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Mr Richard N Griffiths</span></b></font></i><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">a member of the British HCI Group is course leader of the MSc in Digital Television Management & Production at the University of Brighton, UK, a course the he has managed since its inception in 2001. He researches usability design for interactive TV, particularly accessibility, and is currently involved with an EU FP6 multi-partner project; LOGOS: Knowledge on demand for ubiquitous learning. He has previously been an organising member of workshops at Interact 1999 and CHI 2000 on usability pattern language, and HCI 2002 and 2003 on iTV and accessibility.</span></span></font></i></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><i><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></i></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Prof Rudolf Jäger </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">heads the interactive TV Laboratory at the University of Applied Science Giessen-Friedberg, Germany. He has more than 10 years experience in digital TV, STB development and in the design of user Interfaces for interactive digital TV Services. His current research concerns advanced iTV-services comprising the broadcast and the on demand model in a modern Home-IPTV environment. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Dr Graham McAllister</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> is a Senior Lecturer in HCI at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests are in the areas of accessibility and usability of video games and interactive systems. In particular, how the user experience of interactive media can be evaluated and how games can be designed for people with special needs.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Effie Lai-Chong Law</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> is a Research Fellow at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and at the University of Leicester (UK). She obtained her M. Soc. Sc. in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. Her research domains are human-computer interaction (HCI) and technology-enhanced learning (TEL). She has presented and published a number of papers in international conferences, books and journals. She is the chief editor of a recent book entitled </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">“Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value”</font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"> (2008, Springer UK). Currently, she is chairing a large-scale international project COST294-MAUSE (<a href="http://www.cost294.org">http://www.cost294.org</a>) in which leading HCI experts from 21 European countries are involved. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div><br></body></html>