ERCIM News No.28 - January 1997

C O N T E N T S

• Guest Editorial by Roberto Carneiro, Vice-President of the European Forum for the Information Society and President of the Evaluation Committee for the European Union's ESPRIT Programme
  

• ERCIM New Members Policy by Keith Jeffery
• ERCIM Meetings in Prague by Michal Haindl and Jiri Zlatuska
• Dimitri Papadias awarded Cor Baayen Fellowship

SPECIAL THEME:

• Disabled and Elderly People in the Information Society by Constantine Stephanidis
• Navigating the Graphical User Interfaces - Supporting Equal Access in the 'Infomacracy by Arthur I. Karshmer
• Provision of a Communication Device for a Homebound ALS Client by Takuro Hatakeyama, Fumiko Osawa and Akira Hakuno
• Web Style Sheets for the Visually Impaired by Håkon Lie
• Triasis - Videotelephony adapted to Elderly and Disabled People's Needs by Jacqueline Floch
• DEFIE - An Environment Control System for Elderly and Disabled People by Rolando Bianchi Bandinelli and Antonina Saba
• Adaptable Appearance and Functionality in Communication Software for Speech Impaired People by Eija Kaasinen
• A Project to Support Sensor of Motion-Impaired by Jan Uhlír
• Interface Adaptation in a Teleworking Environment for Disabled People by Henrike Gappa and Stefanie Mermet
• Security Alarm System Supports Independent Living of Demented Persons by Jaana Leikas
• Robotic Wheelchair Platform Navigation by Panos Trahanias, Constantine Stephanidis and Stelios Orphanoudakis
• ISAEUS: Speech Training for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired People by Jean-Paul Haton
• Making Mathematics Accessible to Students who are Blind by Alistair D N Edwards
• Real Time Czech and Slovak Text-to-Speech System by Robert Vích
• Educational Software for Disabled Children by Michela Ott
• A Tool for Hospitalised Children and a Communication Tool for Users with Disabilities by Kristian Simsarian and Kristina Höök
• Notebook for the Blind by Radim Matulík
• Information Technology, Telecommunications and Disability - An Approach Towards Integration by Pier Luigi Emiliani
• IT connected Research at the Swedish Handicap Institute by Lena Birge and Margita Lundman
• Business Process Software Support for Sheltered Workshops by Ken Robinson
• Unified User Interface Development by Constantine Stephanidis

• Digital Techniques for Character Recognition in Old Documents by Luigi Bedini, Andrea Bozzi and Anna Tonazzini
• GMD Launches International Satellite Earth Stations by Sepideh Chakaveh
• Enhancing Information Systems with Co-operative Explanatory Capabilities by Simon Lambert
• TMR Research Network VIRGO: Vision-Based Robot Navigation Research Network by Stelios C. Orphanoudakis and Panos E. Trahanias
• ESPRESS - Engineering of Safety-Critical Embedded Systems by Sergio Montenegro
• Grammar Systems - A Language-Theoretic Approach to Distribution and Cooperation by Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú
• Virtual Reality in Education by Matti Kuusisto and Raimo Launonen
• Image Segmentation using Markov Random Field Model in Fully Parallel Cellular Network VLSI Architectures by Tamás Szirányi and Josiane Zerubia
• Calliope - An Experiment in Digital Libraries by Catherine Alauzun and François Rechenmann
  

• WAMM - A Metacomputer Graphical Interface by Ranieri Baraglia and Domenico Laforenza
• Evaluation of Quality Characteristics in Health Care Information Systems by Fabrizio Fabbrini and Mario Fusani
• European Entrypoint for the Brazilian Software Industry at GMD by Gilson Fonseca
• Looking for Advertisements based on a Map by Risto Vuorjoki
  
  

• TANGRAM wins Object Application Award by Gerd Schürmann and Klaus-Peter Eckert
• 2nd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All by Constantine Stephanidis
• Second ERCIM DELOS Workshop Examines Interoperability and Metadata by Thomas Baker
• ERCIM Working Group Environmental Modelling Kick-off Meeting by Achim Sydow
• ERCIM Workshop Heterogeneous Information Management by Jaroslav Pokorny
• ECCOMAS'96 ­ New Trends in Scientific Computing by Armel Guillet
  First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September 1997
• Second ERCIM International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, Cesena, Italy, 4-5 July 1997
• International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems 97, Berlin, Germany, 9-11 April 1997
• DELOS Spring Workshop on Multilinguality, Zurich, Switzerland, 5-7 March 1997
• Eurographics'97, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 September 1997
• 1st European Conference on Information Technologies for the Envrionment, Strasbourg, France, 10-12 September 1997
• First International Workshop on Mobile Agents'97, Berlin, Germany, 7-8 April 1997
• Second World Congress on Intelligent Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 June 1997
  

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