ASSETS 2009

ACM SIGACCESS Best Paper Awards

The award winners at ASSETS 2009 were:

• SIGACCESS Best Paper Award
  (chosen from the technical program):

  Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities
  Hironobu Takagi (IBM Research, Japan), Shinya Kawanaka (IBM Research, Japan), Masatomo Kobayashi (IBM Research, Japan), Daisuke Sato (IBM Research. Japan), Chieko Asakawa (IBM Research, Japan)

• SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award
  (chosen from the papers among the technical program with a student as a first author):

  ClassInFocus: Enabling Improved Visual Attention Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
  Anna C. Cavender (University of Washington, USA), Jeffrey P. Bigham (University of Rochester, USA), Richard E. Ladner (University of Washington, USA)

Selection Process

Based on the technical paper reviews, the Program Chair selects a shortlist of best paper candidates. These are discussed and reviewed by a selection committee drawn from the program committee. Membership is limited to those who have no conflict of interest with the shortlisted papers, as defined by the ACM SIGACCESS Conflict of Interest Policy.

This year's selection committee is chaired by Kathleen McCoy, and the members are:

• Alistair D.N. Edwards, University of York, UK
• Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Towson University, USA
• Matt Huenerfauth, City University of New York, USA
• Kathleen F. McCoy, University of Delaware, USA
• Gerhard Weber, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, UK

Additional Program Committee members may also contribute to the process by reviewing papers with which they have no conflict. The following individuals provided review input to this year's selection process:

• Jeffrey Bigham, University of Washington, USA
• Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee, UK
• Simon Harper, University of Manchester, UK
• Laura Leventhal, Bowling Green State University, USA
• Karyn Moffatt, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Jamie Sánchez, University of Chile, Chile
• Andrew Sears, UMBC, USA
• Shari Trewin, IBM, USA