A UCD Approach towards the Design, Development and Assessment of Accessible Applications in a Large Scale European Integrated Project

  • Authors:
  • Karel Isacker;Karin Slegers;Maria Gemou;Evangelos Bekiaris

  • Affiliations:
  • European Platform for Rehabilitation, Brussels, Belgium B-1000;Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), IBBT / K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 3000;Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Alimos, Greece 17455;Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Alimos, Greece 17455

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

ÆGIS (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) is a user-centred project, involving several user groups (users with visual, hearing, motion, speech and cognitive impairments as well as application developers) throughout the design, development and assessment phases. In this paper the holistic UCD (User Centred Design) approach of the project is introduced. This approach ensures that the project's objectives to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT applications (desktop, rich Internet and mobile applications) are met, with the full support and involvement of a huge end-user group in every single step of the design, development and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT.