[cadius] IWWUA 2007 - CALL FOR PAPERS

[Maristella Matera]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop on Web Usability and 
Accessibility (IWWUA 2007)
December 3rd 2007, Nancy, France
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua07

Co-located with the 8th International Conference on Web 
Information Systems Engineering
http://wise2007.loria.fr
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According to recent studies an estimated 90% of Web sites 
and applications suffer from usability and/or 
accessibility problems. As user satisfaction has increased 
in importance, the need for usable Web applications has 
become more critical. To achieve Web usability and 
accessibility, models describing all the Web artifacts' 
attributes and their relationships should be built, and 
evaluation methods should be used during requirements, 
design and implementation stages based on these models.

The goal of IWWUA 2007 is to bring together professionals 
and researchers who are interested in discussing recent 
trends and perspectives in Web usability and 
accessibility. The main purpose is to assess the 
effectiveness of existing approaches for the evaluation of 
such two factors. These include, but are not limited to: 
review guidelines, usability models, usability checkers, 
accessibility verifiers, logging tools, automatic metric 
capture tools, statistical tools, usability evaluation 
methods, etc. The Workshop will allow participants to gain 
insight into the state-of-the-art in usability and 
accessibility for the Web. Discussions are also planned to 
classify the existing works along dimensions in order to 
identify gaps in the existing practices that will lead to 
topics for further research.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite contributions discussing methodological, 
technical and theoretical aspects of usability and 
accessibility for Web applications. Relevant topics 
include, but are not limited to:

- Usability factors, criteria, metrics, patterns, and 
recommendations
- Ergonomic/HCI criteria and principles for the Web
- Usability and accessibility guidelines
- Usability criteria for Web vertical domains (e.g., 
e-commerce, e-government, e-learning)
- Usability of Web services
- Integration of usability methods in Web development 
processes
- Early usability evaluation (e.g., based on navigational 
models, abstract Web user interfaces, etc.)
- Usability testing for the Web
- Evaluation of Web user’s performance and satisfaction
- Model-based evaluation for Web usability and 
accessibility
- Tools for automatic evaluation of Web usability and 
accessibility
- Usability evaluation of multimodal Web applications
- Comparative analysis of usability/accessibility metrics
- Theoretical/empirical validation of 
usability/accessibility metrics
- Empirical studies

SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit papers of a maximum of 12 
pages. These papers should clearly emphasize the issues 
relevant to the Workshop. Submissions will be then 
evaluated according to the relevance and originality of 
the work, and their ability to stimulate the discussion at 
the Workshop.
The format of submitted papers must follow the 
Springer-Verlag LNCS standard paper format 
(http://www.springer.de) and be submitted electronically 
in PDF format at 
https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/webchair/inicial.php?id=14.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: July 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2007
Camera-ready papers: September, 3
Workshop: December 3, 2007

PUBLICATION
All papers accepted for the Workshop will be published by 
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
(LNCS) series, as a separate volume for the WISE 
Workshops. Selected papers will also be invited to submit 
an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of 
Web Engineering (pending approval).

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the 
address:
admin_iwwua07 at dlsi.ua.es

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, United 
Kingdom
Coral Calero, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande 
do Norte, Brazil
Maria-Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari, Italy
Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Emilio Insfran, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Effie Lai-Chong Law, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Maria Dolores Lozano, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, 
Spain
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Corina Sas, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Marco Winckler, Université de Tarbes, France

SPONSORS
The Workshop is mainly sponsored by the European COST 
Action n. 294 MAUSE (Towards the Maturation of IT 
Usability Evaluation – www.cost294.org). Several members 
of this COST action are members of the Workshop Program 
Committee and guarantee a large topical coverage of the 
Workshop.

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Maristella Matera
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Via Ponzio, 34/5
20133 - Milano - Italy

Tel: +39-02-2399 3408
Fax: +39-02-2399 3411