SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

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Invited Talks

• Invited talk, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Chuorinkan, Japan, 2008.
• Invited talks, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba and Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
• Invited talk, The Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, ON, Canada, 2007.
• Invited talk, 6^th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway, 2005.
• Invited talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 2004.
• Invited closing plenary speaker, 5^th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway, 2004.
• Invited talk, the Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK, 2003.

Editorial Work

• Editorial Board Member, ACM Transactions on Accesible Computing journal
• Editorial Board Member, Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) International Journal
• Editor, ACM SIGACCESS Newsletter
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS - forthcoming: The Intergenerational Context as an Emphasis for Design.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS 8(2), 2008: Vocal Interaction: Beyond Traditional Automatic Speech Recognition.
• Book Editor, Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation. Idea Group, Inc., 2007.
• Book Editor, Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities. Idea Group, Inc., 2007.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS 4(1), 2005: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Editorial Review Board Member, AACE/SITE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education/Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) Journals, 2004.

Programme Committee Involvement

• 5^th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, CA, USA, 2009 (Program Board member).
• 11^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, 2009 (Treasurer and Conference Registration Chair).
• The IASTED International Conference on Assistive Technologies, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2008.
• 11^th International Conference on Computer Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Linz, Austria, 2008.
• 9^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 2007 (Doctoral Consortium Chair).
• 9^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop User Interfaces for All, Bonn, Germany, 2006.
• ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) Cambridge, MA, USA, 2004.
• 8^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop User Interfaces for All, Vienna, Austria, 2004.
• 2^nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Cambridge, UK, 2004.
• 7^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop User Interfaces for All, Paris, France, 2003.

Panel and Session Organisations

• Workshop Organizer: Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology mediated interaction, ACM CHI, Boston, MA, 2009.
• Special Interest Group Organizer: Vocal Interaction, ACM CHI, Florence, Italy, 2008.
• Workshop Organizer: Striking a c[h]ord: vocal interaction in assistive technologies, games, and more, ACM CHI, San Jose, CA, USA, 2007.
• Panel: Technology as a means for enhancing the independence and connectivity of older people, ACM CHI, Vienna, Austria, 2004.
• Conference chairs of 2 sessions, HCII 2003 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece, 2003.
• Workshop organizer, HCII 2003 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece, 2003.
• Panel: Special Topics of Web Usability. WebNet 2001 Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, 2001.