WORKSHOP: The Future of Interfaces and Accessibility

下一代界面和驱动它们的技术为可访问性带来了新的挑战，也为解决这些障碍提供了新的工具。这些新技术还可以帮助我们解决一些人在使用当今技术时面临的障碍--我们目前还没有很好的解决方案。对于认知、语言和学习残疾、视盲、失明和智力障碍以及其他残疾组合而言，情况尤其如此。尽管取得了成功，但这项工作显然需要一种新的模式。因此，本次研讨会旨在聚集和参与主流和残疾人领导人和创新者在各自的领域：a）彻底探索界面的未来的所有愿景; B）收集所有不同的想法，方法，并从最好的国际无障碍社区的范例;以及c）创建主流和可访问性研究议程，以产生下一代接口技术的解决方案，当这些技术进入市场时就可以使用，而不是落后五年或更长时间。作为研讨会的副产品，将创建一个特殊的网站，收集所有的演示文稿，准备材料和最终的研究议程。 更无障碍的产品界面对社会的影响无法轻易衡量，但随着新的估计，五分之一到四分之一的人口患有残疾，以及我们所做的一切都越来越依赖数字界面，即使在发展中国家，更无障碍的界面的影响也将非常显著，无论是对经济还是对大部分人口的生活质量。这次研讨会将汇集主流人机交互和支持技术的领导者，以帮助预测未来的界面，以及无障碍方面的最佳人才来帮助想象解决这些技术的新途径和方法。 仅仅这两项活动的结果就将对实地具有重大价值。主流技术和可访问性研究议程的创建将对学术研究人员和学生以及对实用方法感兴趣的公司开发人员更直接和长期地使用，以使其未来的产品界面无障碍。它也将有助于消费者团体，资助机构，政策制定者，辅助技术开发人员以及独立研究人员和开发人员塑造他们未来的工作，议程和目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Next-next generation interfaces and the technologies that will drive them provide new challenges to accessibility, as well as new tools for addressing these barriers. These new technologies can also help us address barriers that some people face with today’s technologies – barriers that we currently do not have good solutions for. This is particularly true for cognitive, language, and learning disabilities, deaf-blindness, blindness and intellectual impairments and other combinations of disabilities. Despite successes, it has become apparent that this work needs a new paradigm. Thus, this workshop aims to gather and engage mainstream and disability leaders and innovators in their fields to: a) Thoroughly explore all visions for the future of the interface; b) Gather all different thoughts, approaches, and paradigms from the best in the international accessibility community; and c) Create both mainstream and accessibility research agendas that can result in solutions for next-next generation interface technologies, to be available when these technologies enter the marketplace instead of five years or more behind them. As a byproduct of the workshop, a special website will be created, capturing all of the presentations, preparatory materials, and the final research agenda. The impact on society of more accessible product interfaces cannot be easily measured, but with the new estimates of a fifth to a quarter of the population having disabilities, and the increasing reliance on digital interfaces in everything we do, even in developing countries, the impact of more accessible interfaces will be quite significant, both to economies and to quality of life for large sectors of the population.This workshop will bring together leaders in mainstream human computer interaction and supporting technologies to help predict the future interface, as well as the best minds in accessibility to help imagine new approaches and methods to address these technologies. The result of just these two activities would be of great value to the field. The creation of both a mainstream technology and an accessibility research agenda will be of even more immediate and long-term use to academic researchers and students, and to developers in companies interested in practical ways to make their future product interfaces accessible. It will also be useful to consumer groups, funding agencies, policy makers, assistive technology developers, and independent researchers and developers in shaping their future work, agendas, and goals. The resulting research agenda is intended to be a living agenda that is updated over time and used by the broad range of stakeholders.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.