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Conference program

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Morning 8:00 ~ 9:00 Registration

Room 1 9:00 ~ 10:00 Opening Ceremony

10:00 ~ 11:00 Plenary session : Accessible Technology: New Directions, New Possibilities Keynote speaker : Debra Ruh TecAccess USA

11:00 ~ 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 ~ 12:30 Plenary session: Web Accessibility – It’s not Magic, it’s Art Keynote speaker: Shadi Abou-Zahra W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Austria

12:30 ~ 14:00 Lunch Demonstrations

Educational Content environment for Deaf Accessibility Eleni Efthimiou & Stavroula-Evita Fotinea ILSP – Institute for Language and Speech Processing Greece Unix accessibility through braille devices Samuel Thibault & S´ebastien Hinderer LaBRI/LORIA France Websign : Towards automatic interpretation of texts to Sign language Mohamed JEMNI & Oussama Elghoul Research Unit UTIC Tunisia New ways to teach GPS technology in primary schools Pirita Ihamäki University of Turku Production and Landscape Studies Finland

14:00 ~ 15:00

Component Based Development of Applications for the Visually Handicapped Users Amina BOURAOUI and Mejdi SOUFI Research Unit UTIC Tunisia

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Tutorials

Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

15:00 ~ 16:30

Tutorial 1: Patterns and User Interface Engineering Animators: Ahmed Seffah & Mohamed Taleb University of Concordia Canada

Tutorial 2: eAccessibility, a new attitude Animators: Dominique BURGER & Pierre GUILLOU INSRM / Association BrailleNet, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France

Tutorial 3: A web-based library of activities to assist students identify learning needs Animators: Christine Stevens & Carol Clark University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

16:30 ~ 17:00 Coffee Break 17:00 ~ 18:30 Room 1 Room 2

Tutorial 1: Patterns and User Interface Engineering Animators: Ahmed Seffah & Mohamed Taleb University of Concordia Canada

Tutorial 2: eAccessibility, a new attitude Animators: Dominique BURGER & Pierre GUILLOU INSERM / Association BrailleNet, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France

Friday, April 13, 2007

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Morning Room 1

08:30~ 09:30

Plenary session: Make it possible, they say Keynote speaker : Dominique BURGER Association BrailleNet France

09:30~ 10:30

Plenary session: Opening Web-Based Learning to a Larger Student Community Keynote speaker : Kinshuk Athabasca University Canada

10:30~ 11:00 Coffee Break Room 1 Room 2

Session 1: Accessibility1 Session 2: Accessible E-learning 1

BrlAPI: Simple, Portable, Concurrent, Application-level Control of Braille TerminalsSamuel Thibault Sebastien Hinderer France

BeLearning: Using Mental Models to Design Accessible eLearning Applications Sabina Jeschke Helmut Vieritz Germany

11:00~ 13:00

Talking About People, not Technology: Web Accessibility Natasha Boskic Kirsten Bole Canada

E-Learning Contents for People with Disabilities: a Standardized Design Approach F. Colace, M. De Santo P. Rocca Italy

An Accessible Interface for a Mobile Phone-based Travel Information System Nick Tyler Marcela Wainstein United Kingdom

Teaching and Learning with Information and Communication Technologies for Intellectually Disabled Students: A Critical Review of the Empirical Literature Hajer Chalghoumi Jacques Viens Canada

Towards Web-Based automaticinterpretation of written text to SignLanguage

Exploring Usability and Accessibility of an E-Learning System for Improving Computer Literacy

Mohamed Jemni Oussama Elghoul Tunisia

Matjaž Debevc Petra Povalej Mateja Verlič1, Zoran Stjepanovič Slovenia

13:00~ 14:00 Lunch

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Afternoon Session 3 : accessibility 2 Session 4 : Accessible e-learning 2

Increasing the Robustness of Man-Machine Interfaces Fevzi Belli Germany

An Environment for Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea Greece

Graphical Tool to Simplify the Navigationand Web Accessibility

A model driven framework to provide e-learning for students with disabilities

Chabane Khentout Mahieddine Djoudi Lamri Douidi Algeria/ France

Mohsen Laabidi Mohamed Jemni Amina Bouraoui Tunisia

A Source of Inspiration: ATC for Visually Impaired Students at the Islamic University of Gaza Hatem A. Elaydi Hazem Shehada Palestine

Authoring Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Disabled Learners Said Talhi Mahieddine Djoudi Salima Ouadfel, Samir Zidat Algeria/France

14:00~ 16:00

AccèsSimple Web site: From innovation to evaluation Sonia Rioux Jacques Langevin Canada

Multimedia Distance Learning Environment Khadidja Harbouche Mahieddine Djoudi Algeria/France

16:00~16:30 Coffee Break Session 5 : Accessibility 3 Session 6 : ICT & Education 1

Accessibility Education: an European Challenge Roberto Scano Roberto Castaldo Italy

A Multi-Layered Interactive Collaborative Distance Learning System with Late Attendance Support Khalid A. Fakeeh Saudi Arabia 16:30 ~ 17:30

UNESCO IITE Contribution to e-Inclusion Policy Development for Education of Students with Disabilities KOTSIK Boris TOKAREVA Natalia Russia

Towards a model for evaluating the E-learner's behavior Benaceur Outtaj Rachida Ajhoun Mohamed Sidir Morroco/France

17:30 ~ 18:30 Poster Session

Saturday, April 14, 2007

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Morning Room 1 Room 2

Session 7 : Accessibility 4 Session 8 : Innovation and advanced research in ICT 1

An Arabic Optical Braille Recognition System AbdulMalik Al-Salman Yosef AlOhali Mohammed AlKanhal, and Abdullah AlRajih Saudi Arabia

Performance Evaluation of the distributed Arabic cursive characters recognition using the DTW algorithm on the SRTG. Maher KHEMAKHEM Mohamed Labidi Tunisia

User & service modeling in assistive environment to enhance accessibility of dependent people Mahmoud Ghorbel Rachid Kadouche Mounir Mokhtari France

EMASPEL (Emotional Multi-Agents System for Peer to peer E-Learning) Mahmoud NEJI Mohamed BEN AMMAR Tunisia

Automatic Hybrid Approach for Lip POI Localization: Application for Lip-reading System Saleh Werda Tunisia

08:30~10:30

@Science - Towards an Accessible Science Barbara Hengstberger Cristian Bernareggi Italy/austria

LR-Upward Drawing: a More Usable Ordered Sets Drawing Guy-Vincent Jourdan Livaniaina Rakotomalala Nejib Zaguia Canada

10:30~11:00 Coffee Break

Session 9 : ICT & Education 2 Session 10 : Innovation and advanced research in ICT 2

Geocaching in primary schools – New ways to teach GPS technology & Basics of orientation local geography Pirita Ihamäki Finland

Multiple Ant Colonies Optimization for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems Al Dahoud Ali Mohamed A. Belal Jordan

Views Of The Teaching Staff On Web Based mathematics Teaching Prepared On High School-1 Functions Ebru GÜVELİ Turkey

Proposal of Personalized Multi-modal Information Diffusion System Makram Soui Khaled Ghédira Slim Hammadi Tunisia/France

Learning objects for programming Ion MIERLUS MAZILU Alina Maria VADUVA Romania

A modified method for generating a secure accessibility pseudorandom bit sequences Abdulameer K .Hussain Jordan

11:00~13:00

Accessibility to Mathematical Documents Afef Kacem Tunisia

Serialisation based approach for processes strong mobility Soumaya Marzouk Maher Ben Jemaa Mohamed Jmaiel Tunisia

13:00~14:00 Lunch

Afternoon

Session 11 : ICT & Education 3 Session 12 :

Innovation and advanced research in ICT 3

An Ontological Approach for the Generationof Personalized Learning Scenarios

Mobile Internet Congestion Control

Fethi Essalmi Leila Jemni ben ayed Tunisia

Ilhem Lengliz Abir Ben Ali Farouk Kamoun Tunisia

Personalization of a group learning situationABIK Mounia AJHOUN Rachida Morroco

Bluetooth scatternet formation of wireless devices based on maximal independent sets Yassine Daadaa Ivan Stojmenovic Nejib Zaguia Canada

Learning applications based on Multi-layer perception system for automatic tagging Mohsen Maraoui France

Transactions security and payments via e-commerce in Tunisia BEN SALAH Abderrazek Tunisia

14:00~ 16:00

Technology assisted improvement of Service plane-aided Visualisation of virtual topology in transport networks learning objects quality

Ramzi Farhat Mohamed Jemni Bruno Defude Tunisia/ France

Valerio Martini Fabio Baroncelli Barbara Martini, Piero Castoldi, Michele Guglielmucci, Aymen Garbouj, Siddharth Mishra Italy

16:00~16:30 Coffee Break Session 13 :

Innovation and advanced research in ICT 4

Session 14 : Innovation and advanced research

in ICT 5 Extension of the Wahl-Rothermel temporal model for the multimedia documents Maredj Azze-Eddine Alimazighi Zaia Sadallah Madjid Algeria

Model Driven Approach For the Design and the Development of Non Visual Components Amina Bouraoui Mejdi Soufi Tunisia

A Framework Integrating Signal / Semantic Visual Characterizations for Conceptual Video Retrieval Mbarek Charhed Mounir Zrigui Tunisia

Assessment of System Development Models with Regard to Software Reuse Practice Adnan Rawashdeh Jordan

16:30~ 18:00

Lossless and Lossy Compression in 4D Bio-modeling Martin zagar Mario Kovac Croatia

Using ontologies to resolve semantic conflicts in information systems design Mohamed MHIRI Faïez GARGOURI Tunisia

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