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Guest Editorial Guest Editorial There are essentially two aspects characterizing the relationship between computers and accessibility. On the one hand, the focus is on the question of how persons with disabilities and elderly citizens can access a computer. On the other hand, computers and modern technology can help people to œaccess life , that is, to solve speci c problems, overcome barriers, or simply improve their individual situation. Twenty-nine high-quality technical papers, dealing with at least one (sometimes both) of these aspects, have been presented at ASSETS 2008 “ the 10th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Four of the most interesting ones have been selected for inclusion “ as an extended version “ in this special issue of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. The article œA3 : HCI Coding Guideline for Research Using Video Annotation to Assess Behavior of Nonverbal Subjects with Computer Based Intervention  by Joshua Hailpern et al., focuses on the development of speci c guidelines that will enable an ef cient analysis of video segments recorded for the study of nonverbal children (e.g., autistic children). This analysis tool could play a key role in computer-based research aimed at enhancing our understanding of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Association for Computing Machinery

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Copyright © 2009 by ACM Inc.
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1936-7228
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Guest Editorial There are essentially two aspects characterizing the relationship between computers and accessibility. On the one hand, the focus is on the question of how persons with disabilities and elderly citizens can access a computer. On the other hand, computers and modern technology can help people to œaccess life , that is, to solve speci c problems, overcome barriers, or simply improve their individual situation. Twenty-nine high-quality technical papers, dealing with at least one (sometimes both) of these aspects, have been presented at ASSETS 2008 “ the 10th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Four of the most interesting ones have been selected for inclusion “ as an extended version “ in this special issue of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. The article œA3 : HCI Coding Guideline for Research Using Video Annotation to Assess Behavior of Nonverbal Subjects with Computer Based Intervention  by Joshua Hailpern et al., focuses on the development of speci c guidelines that will enable an ef cient analysis of video segments recorded for the study of nonverbal children (e.g., autistic children). This analysis tool could play a key role in computer-based research aimed at enhancing our understanding of the

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ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 1, 2009

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