Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025
Part of the 40thACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '25)
https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/
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.
See the track website https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025
for more details.
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
available at https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php
(regular papers) and
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php
(SRC abstracts).
Contact us
For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact
gaggi@math.unipd.it .
We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC
2025 Conference!
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