Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government, industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and development results in areas of accessibility.
This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with different points of view, taking into account specific technological constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called “curb cut effect” can be applied to any technological and digital context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs of people with disabilities.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market.
Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc: e-services and content often require specific technologies, being bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while richness and quantity of content may affect the users’ ability to process information.
Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting, etc.
Accessibility of games.
AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization (i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and special needs) and “enabler” (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the creation of accessible applications).
We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. Submissions fall into the following categories:
Original and unpublished research work.
Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas.
Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.
Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems.
Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing: The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information.
Paper size is strictly limited to 8 pages in the SAC style. A maximum of 2 additional pages may be included for an additional fee only in the final version of the accepted paper. Please check the author kit latex style on the main SAC website https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/authorkit.php (the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates). Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection.
Papers accepted as posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page at additional fee.
Submissions will be in electronic format, via the website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php.
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Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitations can be invited for the poster session.
Accepted, papers must fit within eigth (8) two column pages, with the option for up to 2 additional pages at additional cost.
A second set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as posters, limited to 2 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at additional cost.
Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in excluding the papers from the ACM/IEEE digital library.
Sept 20, 2024, 11:59PM (UTC+0.00), October 4, 2024, October 13, 2024 (EXTENDED!): Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts.
October 30, 2024, November 22, 2024 (EXTENDED!): Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research abstracts.
November 29, 2024, December 13, 2024 (EXTENDED!): Camera-ready copies of accepted papers.
December 6, 2024, December 13, 2024 (EXTENDED!): Authors registration due.
Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua.
Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna.
Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE.
Catia Prandi, University of Bologna.
Chiara Ceccarini, University of Bologna.
Thomas Bjørner, Aalborg University.
Kévin Bouchard, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
Cristina Liviana Caldiroli, University of Milano-Bicocca.
Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano.
Giovanni Delnevo, University of Bologna.
Mirko Franco, University of Padua.
Marco Furini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Joao Guerreiro, University of Lisbon.
Barbara Leporini, University of Pisa.
Andrea Mangiatordi, University of Milano-Bicocca.
Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Claudio Enrico Palazzi, University of Padua.
George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus.
Fabio Paternò, CNR Pisa.
Fabio Salice, Politecnico di Milano.
Ather Sharif, University of Washington.
David Sloan, The Paciello Group.
Markel Vigo, University of Manchester.