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CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA 2009)
October 5-7, 2009, Poznan, Poland
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua09

Co-located with the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/

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Following up the tradition established in the last two years, IWWUA 2009 aims at bringing together researchers and professionals interested in discussing recent trends and perspectives in Web usability and accessibility. One of the goals of this year?s edition will be to deepen the issues related to the usability and accessibility of modern Web 2.0 applications. Contributions focusing on Web 2.0 applications are especially encouraged. However, papers addressing more traditional Web domains are also welcome.

IWWUA will discuss and classify the existing research works, to identify gaps in the existing development and evaluation practices that can lead to topics of further research. An issue of particular importance is when and how usability should be integrated into a well-organized Web development process. We therefore look for contributions that discuss not only technical and theoretical aspects, but also methodological and practical issues.

More information on the Workshop can be found at the Workshop Web site: gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/iwwua09/.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of the Workshop will include, but will not be limited to:
- Usability and accessibility guidelines, factors, criteria, metrics, patterns, and recommendations
- Management of usability and accessibility requirements
- Evaluation methods
- Early usability evaluation (e.g., model-based evaluation)
- Integration of usability and accessibility evaluation in the development processes
- Automatic tools
- Theoretical/empirical validation of metrics
- Empirical studies
- User experience
- Industrial experience

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit their papers by May 1, 2009. Papers must describe completed works (8 pages maximum). Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work, as well as with respect to their ability to generate discussions between the Workshop participants.

Submissions must follow the Springer-Verlag LNCS standard paper format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) and be submitted electronically in PDF format through the WISE Review System (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wise2009). Please, make sure you select the *Web Usability and Accessibility track* of the WISE conference for your submission.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: May 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2009
Camera-ready papers: June 28, 2009
Author registration: June 28, 2009
Conference & Workshops: October 5-7, 2009

PUBLICATION
All the accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a separate volume for the WISE Workshops. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an improved and extended version of their papers to a special issue in a relevant journal.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Silvia Abrah?o, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Cristina Cachero, Universidad de Alicante, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Shadi Abou-Zahra, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Nigel Bevan, Professional Usability Services, United Kingdom
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Coral Calero, University of Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Tiziana Catarci, Universit? degli Studi di Roma ?La Sapienza?, Italy
Vicente Luque Centeno, University Carlos III, Spain
Sven Casteleyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jair Cavalcanti Leite, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Gerry Gaffney, Information & Design, Australia
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Nederlands
Emilio Insfran, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain
Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Emilia Mendes, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina
Geert Poels, University of Ghent, Belgium
Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA, UNLP, Argentina
Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Marco Winckler, University Paul Sabatier, France

CONTACT
The Workshop co-chairs can be contacted by email at the address admin_iwwua09@dlsi.ua.es