[Discussion] CFP: Enabling Technologies (12/15/04; 5/29/05-5/31/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

A joint panel from the Canadian Disability Studies Association and COCH/C=
OSH
http://www.coch-cosh.ca/

CFP: Enabling Technologies

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004

The technological revolution has produced an explosion of new hardware,
software and sensory modalities that open doors of accessibility for all
kinds of users. The Canadian Disability Studies Association and the
Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour
ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) welcome papers that deal
with accessibility issues, including alternative and inclusive
technologies, interfaces, and pedagogies for the differently abled. We
are interested in discussions centred on electronic assistive
technologies as tools and media for the humanities. Software or hardware
demonstrations are welcome, but only as a part of an inquiry into the
larger issues as they affect access in the arts, social sciences and
education. Possible topics might include:

* assistive technologies: reading/writing software, voice output,
onscreen keyboards, portable note takers, etc.
* rich media resources, materials, textbooks in the classroom and online
* instructional technologies
* inclusive design
* augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
* ergonomics
* adult and geriatric education
* networks
* voice, eye, and neurological interfaces
* mobile computing
* hands-free computing
* virtual prosthetics
* implants
* virtual exhibitions and accessible resources
* enabled arts
* music-based technologies
* access-related textual encoding and its standards
* tactile television and computing
* 3D modeling, printers, tactile captions, etc.
* digital textbooks, talking books, tactile animation
* JAWS, cyberlink, and other softwares and their applications
* enabling resources, databases, search engines, services

The Canadian Disability Studies Association is a Canada-wide organization
concerned with the intersections with (and within) disability and disabil=
ity
studies, including disability and medicine; social policy and disability;
disability history; the immigrant experience and disability; law and
disability; disability and queerness; disability and culture; disability =
in
literature; feminism and disability; ethics and disability, disability an=
d
pedagogy; and disability and personal/private space.

The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour
ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of
representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in
1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of,
information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the
betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH
participates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of
Canada=B9s (HSSFC) annual Congress to promote humanities computing
research and scholarship in Canada and internationally. Our theme for
the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of
the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections
between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the
University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005.

Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French
until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members
of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference.

Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top:
title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including
email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author;
statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should
be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's
thesis, methodology and major focus. Be sure to mark your submission as
being for the Enabling Technologies Panel.

Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the
conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/

Inquiries may be emailed directly to:
carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca
(or contact made by telephone or other means below)

Carolyn Guertin, PhD
Senior McLuhan Fellow
McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology
University of Toronto
39A Queen=B9s Park Crescent
Toronto Canada M5S 2C3
voice: 416-928-0196
fax: 416-978-5324
email: carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca


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Carolyn Guertin, PhD, Senior McLuhan Fellow
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
Email: carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca; Voice: 416-928-0196
Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/
Program: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/

Assemblage: The Women's Online New Media Gallery
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm




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