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Introduction to the ASSETS’14 Special Issue, Part 2

Introduction to the ASSETS’14 Special Issue, Part 2 Introduction to the ASSETS'14 Special Issue, Part 2 We are pleased to present Part 2 of the special issue containing extended versions of conference papers presented at the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'14), which was held in Rochester, New York, October 20­22, 2014. After the conference, authors of several top papers submitted manuscripts for consideration, which underwent a full review process for the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. The guest editor for this issue is John Richards (IBM Watson Group, USA, and University of Dundee, Scotland), who served as Program Chair for ASSETS'14. In addition, Kathleen McCoy (University of Delaware, USA) served as an editor for several manuscripts considered for this issue, to ensure that conflicts of interest were carefully managed throughout the review process. The journal editors thank the authors for their excellent submissions, and we also thank all of the reviewers for the journal who contributed their time and expertise to this process. The first article, "Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with Intellectual Disabilities," describes the participatory design and evaluation of a tablet application for providing activity schedules for students in mainstreamed classroom environments. The conference version of this paper won the Best Paper Award at ASSETS'14. The second article, "An Analysis of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics Within Information Retrieval Tasks," investigates whether age is a sufficient metric for distinguishing individuals' performance in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies, providing evidence that individuals' previous Internet experience and other cognitive factors serve as useful predictors. The third article, "Investigating the Implications of 3D Printing in Special Education," describes several case studies in incorporating 3D fabrication technologies in the context of special education, including the development and evaluation of software for creating custom adaptive devices. The fourth article, "The Gest-Rest Family: Exploring Input Possibilities for Wheelchair Armrests," presents a set of "chairable" input devices that are incorporated into the form of the user's wheelchair, including a set of formative evaluations of their design and use. John Richards Guest Editor 2016 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). 1936-7228/2016/03-ART8 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2891030 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Association for Computing Machinery

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Introduction to the ASSETS'14 Special Issue, Part 2 We are pleased to present Part 2 of the special issue containing extended versions of conference papers presented at the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'14), which was held in Rochester, New York, October 20­22, 2014. After the conference, authors of several top papers submitted manuscripts for consideration, which underwent a full review process for the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. The guest editor for this issue is John Richards (IBM Watson Group, USA, and University of Dundee, Scotland), who served as Program Chair for ASSETS'14. In addition, Kathleen McCoy (University of Delaware, USA) served as an editor for several manuscripts considered for this issue, to ensure that conflicts of interest were carefully managed throughout the review process. The journal editors thank the authors for their excellent submissions, and we also thank all of the reviewers for the journal who contributed their time and expertise to this process. The first article, "Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with Intellectual Disabilities," describes the participatory design and evaluation of a tablet application for providing activity schedules for students in mainstreamed classroom environments. The conference version of this paper won the Best Paper Award at ASSETS'14. The second article, "An Analysis of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics Within Information Retrieval Tasks," investigates whether age is a sufficient metric for distinguishing individuals' performance in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies, providing evidence that individuals' previous Internet experience and other cognitive factors serve as useful predictors. The third article, "Investigating the Implications of 3D Printing in Special Education," describes several case studies in incorporating 3D fabrication technologies in the context of special education, including the development and evaluation of software for creating custom adaptive devices. The fourth article, "The Gest-Rest Family: Exploring Input Possibilities for Wheelchair Armrests," presents a set of "chairable" input devices that are incorporated into the form of the user's wheelchair, including a set of formative evaluations of their design and use. John Richards Guest Editor 2016 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). 1936-7228/2016/03-ART8 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2891030

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