[hpc-announce] CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '25) - ACM SAC 2025

[Salvatore Gatto]

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT ‘25)


Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025


Part of the 40thACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘25)


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Theme and Scope

Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for 
users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling 
tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical 
topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European 
laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an 
updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track 
invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, 
industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and 
development results in areas of accessibility.

This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance 
to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with 
different points of view, taking into account specific technological 
constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called 
“curb cut effect” can be applied to any technological and digital 
context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that 
were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any 
other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several 
technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs 
of people with disabilities.


We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not 
limited to:

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    Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies
    refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for
    people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they
    were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread
    diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to
    find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On
    the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have
    been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with
    non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market.

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    Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc:
    e-services and content often require specific technologies, being
    bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with
    disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific
    interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while
    richness and quantity of content may affect the users’ ability to
    process information.

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    Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting,
    etc.

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    Accessibility of games.

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    AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization
    (i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and
    special needs) and “enabler” (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the
    creation of accessible applications).


Submission Guidelines

We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the 
Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current 
state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers 
addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will 
be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a 
double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers 
will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the 
ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and 
Scopus.

The track accepts full papers (max 8 pages), posters (max 2 pages), and 
SRC abstracts (max 2 pages). Submissions should be properly anonymized 
to facilitate blind reviewing. Papers that will receive high reviews 
(that is acceptable by reviewer standard) but will not be accepted due 
to space limitations can be invited for poster session. Authors of 
accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must 
pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be 
presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in 
excluding the papers from the ACM Digital Library.

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Important Dates

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    September 20, 2024, 11:59 PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular
    papers and SRC research abstracts

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    October 30, 2024: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research
    abstracts

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    November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

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    December 6, 2024: Authors registration due


Organization

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    Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua

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    Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna

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    Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE

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    Catia Prandi, University of Bologna


Submission Portal

Please submit your contribution through our online submission portal 
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Contact us

For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact 
gaggi at math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi at math.unipd.it>.

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC 
2025 Conference!