CVHI 2007: Granada, Spain

• Marion A. Hersh:
  Conference Foreword.
  
• Dana Marlowe:
  Conference Keynote.
  

Session 1: Orientation and Mobility Systems for Visually Impaired People

• James Coughlan, Huiying Shen:
  Terrain Analysis for Blind Wheelchair Users: Computer Vision Algorithms for Finding Curbs and other Negative Obstacles.
  
• Shehzad Muhammad Hanif, Lionel Prevost:
  Texture based Text Detection in Natural Scene Images - A Help to Blind and Visually Impaired Persons.
  
• Eleanor Fontaine, Guillaume Tatur, Edwige Pissaloux:
  Experiments of Virtual Navigation as a Step in the Development of a Navigation Tool for Blind People.
  
• Sylvie Treuillet, Eric Royer, Thierry Chateau, Michel Dhome, Jean-Marc Lavest:
  Body Mounted Vision System for Visually Impaired Outdoor and Indoor Wayfinding Assistance.
  

Session 2: Access to Education and Information

• Adina Ionescu, Ileana Hamburg, Zoltan Puklus, Attila Kürtösi:
  Improving Social Life and Communication of People with Disabilities by using Internet Facilities.
  
• Paloma Cantón, Ángel Lucas González, Gonzalo Mariscal, Carlos Ruiz:
  Towards a Methodology for Educating Students with Special Needs.
  
• Ileana Hamburg, Thorsten Busse, Andreea Peca, Adina Ionescu:
  Socially Inclusive E-learning Models in Companies.
  
• David Crombie, Neil McKenzie, Benjie Marwick-Johnstone:
  Incorporating Accessibility within Pedagogical Environments.
  

Session 3: Assistive Technology for Independence

• Michael Leitner, Martin Tomitsch, Thomas Költringer, Karin Kappel, Thomas Grechenig:
  Designing Tangible Table-top Interfaces for Patients in Rehabilitation.
  
• Erik Loide, Ülle Lepp:
  E-voting - a Key to Independence for All.
  
• Dusan Simsík, Alena Galajdová, Zlatica Dolná, Jana Andrejková:
  The Ambient Intelligence and the Assistive Technologies for Elderly, Visually and Hearing Impaired Users in Slovakia.
  
• Barthélémy Durette, L. Gamond, S. Hanneton, David Alleysson, Jeanny Hérault:
  Biomimetic Space-Variant Sampling in a Vision Prosthesis Improves the User's Skill in a Localization Task.
  

Workshop

• Cristian Bernareggi, Sauro Cesaretti:
  Multimodal Access to Mathematics: The LAMBDA System.
  

Session 4: Improving the Accessibility of Complex Content

• Barbara Leporini:
  An Accessible and Usable E-Book as an Educational Tool: How To Get It?
  
• Thimoty Barbieri, Lorenzo Mosca, Licia Sbattella:
  Haptic and Aural Graphs Exploration for Visually Impaired Users.
  
• Cristian Bernareggi:
  Speech and Braille Tools to Improve Access to University Scientific Courses.
  
• Piotr Brzoza:
  E-learning Platform for Interactive Access to Multimedia Materials in Daisy Format.
  

Session 5: Access to Multi-Media for Hearing Impaired People

• Simon Nielsen, Hans-Heinrich Bothe:
  SUBPAL: A Device for Reading Aloud Subtitles from Television and Cinema.
  
• Morten Jønsson, Hans-Heinrich Bothe:
  OCR-Algorithm for Detection of Subtitles in Television and Cinema.
  
• James Ohene-Djan, Jenny Wright, Kirsty Combie-Smith:
  Emotional Subtitles: A System and Potential Applications for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People.
  
• Axel Plinge, Dieter Bauer:
  A System for Control of Hearing Instrument Selection and Adjustment based on Evaluation of Correct Transmission of Speech Elements and Features.
  

Panel Discussion Assistive Technology and Social Inclusion for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People from Ethnic and Other Minority Groups

• Mohamed Jemni:
  Taking into Account Cultural and Linguistic Factors: The Tunisian Experience.
  
• Sadaqat Ali:
  The Ethnic Minority End-user Perspective.
  
• James Ohene-Djan:
  Adaptive, Inclusive Software Design for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments.
  

Session 6: Sign Language and Access to Information for Deaf People

• Sadaqat Ali, Saduf Naqvi, Ken Carter:
  The Need to Develop Deaf Friendly Materials for Young Black Minority Ethnic Deaf Experiencing Identity Issues.
  
• Saduf Naqvi:
  End-user Involvement in Assistive Technology Design for the Deaf - are Artificial Forms of Sign Language Meeting the Needs of the Target Audience?
  
• Sara Morrissey, Andy Way:
  Joining Hands: Developing A Sign Language Machine Translation System with and for the Deaf Community.
  
• Martin Tomitsch, Thomas Grechenig:
  Design Implications for a Ubiquitous Ambient Sound Display for the Deaf.
  

Session 7: Telephony and Other Services for Hearing Impaired People

• Mohamed Jemni, Oussama El Ghoul, Nour Ben Yahia, Mehrez Boulares:
  Sign Language MMS to Make Cell Phones Accessible to the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Community.
  
• Jan Krebber:
  Telephone and Hearing Impaired - New Approaches for Increasing the Telephone Speech Quality for Hearing Impaired Users.
  
• Héctor Lozano Peiteado, Inma Hernáez, J. González, I. Idigoras:
  Household Sound Identification for People with Hearing Disabilities.