Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: Digital Media, Education and City Space Accessibility Contexts

Marcus-Quinn, Ann, Krejtz, Krzysztof, Duarte, Carlos

Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: Digital Media, Education and City Space Accessibility Contexts
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-20
  • 售價: $2,530
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 466
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031600487
  • ISBN-13: 9783031600487

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商品描述

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, accessibility in media has emerged as a crucial frontier for inclusion, equality, and knowledge democracy.

The present edited volume "Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: Digital Media, Education and City Space Accessibility Contexts" is a comprehensive exploration of technological, societal, psychological, and legal aspects of media accessibility in Europe. It offers a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the multifaceted landscape of media accessibility. Through compelling experimental studies, case studies, and forward-looking insights, it elucidates the transformative potential of accessible media across diverse sectors, including education, culture, and smart cities.

Crafted as a collaborative effort under the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) LEAD-ME Action (CA19142), this book unites the expertise of researchers, educators, and practitioners. This is an open access publication.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在快速發展的數位媒體領域中，媒體無障礙性已成為包容、平等和知識民主的重要前沿。本書《改變歐洲的媒體無障礙性：數位媒體、教育和城市空間無障礙性背景下的轉型》是對歐洲媒體無障礙性的技術、社會、心理和法律方面進行全面探索的著作。它提供了一個全面的指南，以應對多方面的媒體無障礙性領域。通過引人入勝的實驗研究、案例研究和前瞻性見解，它闡明了無障礙媒體在教育、文化和智慧城市等不同領域的轉型潛力。

本書是在COST（歐洲科學與技術合作）LEAD-ME行動（CA19142）下的合作努力下完成的，匯集了研究人員、教育者和從業人員的專業知識。這是一本開放存取的出版物。

作者簡介

Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn is an Associate Professor in Technical Communication and Instructional Design at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is the Course Director for the MA in Technical Communication and E-Learning and a Research Affiliate of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests include eLearning, Open Educational Resources, accessibility, usability, instructional design, and the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at the post-primary level. She has also completed research reports for international organisations including the EU Commission, the OECD and the European Disability Forum. Ann is a Working Group leader of the COST Action LEAD-ME (CA19142).

Dr. hab. Krzysztof Krejtz an Associate Professor of Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland, where he is running the Eye Tracking Research Center. He holds a Psychology PhD from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been a guest professor at Ulm University (Germany). His research and teaching interests include inclusion and accessibility technologies, Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Research, visual attention and its dynamics, eye-tracking methods and statistics, and multimedia learning. Currently, he is leading the EU-funded COST Action (CA19142) entitled "LEAD-ME. The Leading Platform for European Citizens, Industries, Academia, and Policymakers in Media Accessibility".

Carlos Duarte is an Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências of the University of Lisboa and a senior researcher at LASIGE, where he leads the Inclusive HCI Research Line. He holds a PhD (2008) in Computer Science from the Universidade de Lisboa. His main research interests combine accessibility and intelligent user interfaces to improve the user experience of different target populations. For the elderly, he has explored natural interaction for TV and mobile platforms, social networks and persuasive interfaces to improve their quality of life. For the blind, he has explored ways to improve web accessibility or body-based interaction techniques to improve interaction with mobile devices. Additionally, he has researched techniques for automating the evaluation of the accessibility of web pages. His work has improved QualWeb, a free, open-source, web accessibility evaluation engine. More recently, he has been exploring how conversational agents can be more accessible and how large language models can contribute to digital accessibility. He has published over 100 refereed technical and scientific papers and book chapters. He was the General Chair of W4A'20 and IUI'12 and Program Chair of W4A'19 and IUI'17. He led or participated in 15+ research projects, European and national. He leads one of the LEAD-ME action working groups. He is co-chair of the W3C ACT Rules Community Group where he contributes to harmonised interpretation of accessibility conformance testing. He was part of the W3C EOWG Task Force that is redesigning the curriculum for teaching Web Accessibility.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Dr. Ann Marcus-Quinn是愛爾蘭利默里克大學的技術溝通和教學設計副教授。她是技術溝通和電子學習碩士課程的課程主任，也是愛爾蘭都柏林經濟和社會研究所（ESRI）的研究聯絡人。她的研究興趣包括電子學習、開放教育資源、可及性、易用性、教學設計以及在中等教育階段使用資訊和通訊技術（ICT）。她還為包括歐盟委員會、經濟合作與發展組織（OECD）和歐洲殘疾人論壇在內的國際組織完成了研究報告。Ann是COST行動LEAD-ME（CA19142）的工作組負責人。

Dr. hab. Krzysztof Krejtz是波蘭華沙SWPS大學的心理學副教授，他在那裡負責眼動研究中心。他在波蘭華沙大學獲得心理學博士學位。他曾擔任德國烏爾姆大學的客座教授。他的研究和教學興趣包括包容性和可及性技術、人機交互和可用性研究、視覺注意力及其動態、眼動追蹤方法和統計學，以及多媒體學習。目前，他正在領導由歐盟資助的COST行動（CA19142），名為“LEAD-ME. The Leading Platform for European Citizens, Industries, Academia, and Policymakers in Media Accessibility”。

Carlos Duarte是里斯本大學理學院的副教授，也是LASIGE的高級研究員，他負責包容性人機交互研究領域。他在里斯本大學獲得計算機科學博士學位。他的主要研究興趣結合可及性和智能用戶界面，以改善不同目標人群的用戶體驗。對於老年人，他探索了電視和移動平台的自然交互、社交網絡和說服界面，以改善他們的生活質量。對於視障人士，他探索了改善網頁可及性或基於身體的交互技術，以改善與移動設備的交互。此外，他還研究了自動評估網頁可及性的技術。他的工作改進了QualWeb，一個免費、開源的網頁可及性評估引擎。最近，他一直在探索如何使對話代理更具可及性，以及大型語言模型如何促進數字可及性。他發表了100多篇經過同行評審的技術和科學論文和專書章節。他曾擔任W4A'20和IUI'12的總主席，以及W4A'19和IUI'17的程序主席。他領導或參與了15多個研究項目，包括歐洲和國家級項目。他領導了LEAD-ME行動的一個工作組。他是W3C ACT Rules社群組的聯合主席，為可及性一致性測試的解釋提供貢獻。他曾是W3C EOWG任務組的一員，該組正在重新設計教授網頁可及性的課程。

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