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1st International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA 2007) December 3rd 2007, Nancy, France http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua07 Co-located with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering http://wise2007.loria.fr ******************************************************************************** According to recent studies an estimated 90% of Web sites and applications suffer from usability and/or accessibility problems. As user satisfaction has increased in importance, the need for usable Web applications has become more critical. To achieve Web usability and accessibility, models describing all the Web artifacts' attributes and their relationships should be built, and evaluation methods should be used during requirements, design and implementation stages based on these models. The goal of IWWUA 2007 is to bring together professionals and researchers who are interested in discussing recent trends and perspectives in Web usability and accessibility. The main purpose is to assess the effectiveness of existing approaches for the evaluation of such two factors. These include, but are not limited to: review guidelines, usability models, usability checkers, accessibility verifiers, logging tools, automatic metric capture tools, statistical tools, usability evaluation methods, etc. The Workshop will allow participants to gain insight into the state-of-the-art in usability and accessibility for the Web. Discussions are also planned to classify the existing works along dimensions in order to identify gaps in the existing practices that will lead to topics for further research. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite contributions discussing methodological, technical and theoretical aspects of usability and accessibility for Web applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Usability factors, criteria, metrics, patterns, and recommendations - Ergonomic/HCI criteria and principles for the Web - Usability and accessibility guidelines - Usability criteria for Web vertical domains (e.g., e-commerce, e-government, e-learning) - Usability of Web services - Integration of usability methods in Web development processes - Early usability evaluation (e.g., based on navigational models, abstract Web user interfaces, etc.) - Usability testing for the Web - Evaluation of Web user’s performance and satisfaction - Model-based evaluation for Web usability and accessibility - Tools for automatic evaluation of Web usability and accessibility - Usability evaluation of multimodal Web applications - Comparative analysis of usability/accessibility metrics - Theoretical/empirical validation of usability/accessibility metrics - Empirical studies SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers of a maximum of 12 pages. These papers should clearly emphasize the issues relevant to the Workshop. Submissions will be then evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work, and their ability to stimulate the discussion at the Workshop. The format of submitted papers must follow the Springer-Verlag LNCS standard paper format (http://www.springer.de) and be submitted electronically in PDF format at https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/webchair/inicial.php?id=14. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: July 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2007 Camera-ready papers: September, 3 Workshop: December 3, 2007 PUBLICATION All papers accepted for the Workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a separate volume for the WISE Workshops. Selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering (pending approval). WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRAM COMMITTEE Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, United Kingdom Coral Calero, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Maria-Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari, Italy Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Emilio Insfran, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Effie Lai-Chong Law, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Maria Dolores Lozano, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Italy Corina Sas, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Marco Winckler, Université de Tarbes, France SPONSORS The Workshop is mainly sponsored by the European COST Action n. 294 MAUSE (Towards the Maturation of IT Usability Evaluation – www.cost294.org). Several members of this COST action are members of the Workshop Program Committee and guarantee a large topical coverage of the Workshop. __________________________________ Maristella Matera Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio, 34/5 20133 - Milano - Italy Tel: +39-02-2399 3408 Fax: +39-02-2399 3411 _______________________________________________ altas, bajas y modificaciones: http://www.cadius.org/lista/opciones.html
