Integrating smart heterogeneous objects, IoT devices, data sources, and software services to
produce new business processes and functionalities continues to attract considerable …

The use of software and IoT services is increasing significantly among people with special
needs, who constitute 15% of the world's population. However, selecting appropriate …

Historically, the accessibility community has focused on designing assistive technologies
and systems related to single categories of impairments. While this approach is justifiable …

Ninety percent of the 1.2 billion people who need assistive technology (AT) do not have
access. Information seeking practices directly impact the ability of AT producers, procurers …

Ability-based design is a useful framework that centralizes the abilities (all that users can do)
of people with disabilities in approaching the design of assistive technologies. However …

As a field, the majority of our research tends to focus on the design and application of
assistive products to solve real world challenges for people with disabilities and functional …

While mobile devices offer many innovative possibilities to help increase the standard of
living for individuals with disabilities and other special needs, the process of developing …

Despite the increased demand, popularity, and cultural significance of streaming media and
digital entertainment, many individuals with disabilities are unable to experience this …

In life, everyone faces personalized conditions such as ageing, disease, and impairments in
hearing, vision, or mobility. In addition, some individuals are born with disabilities that can …

Human-centered computing and human-centered multimedia computing (HCMC) have
emerged as important subfields of computational science which leverage the social and …