ATSummit Topic Identification

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1	Timestamp	Name	Affiliation	Three Primary Needs	Three primary skills to offer	One project you are involved with that you wish to share	Notes

2	19/11/2012 09:43:20	Ross Gardler	OpenDirective	1. "to market" partners for AT solutions for people with cognitive disorders 2. specialists in learning difficulties 3. open source collaboration partners for simplified web access systems	1. practical experience of building viable open source software communities 2. broad network of open source aware companies, large and small 3. open source business experience	Cloud4All is an EC project building a software infrastructure that allows the seamless configuration of any computer system, e.g. a desktop, laptop, table, phone, railway ticketing machine, airport check-in kiosk. Using this software it is possible to build systems that adapt to a users accessibility and situational needs.
3	19/11/2012 11:22:32	Steve Lee	OpenDirective	1. More user-related a11y experience, especiall Dementia and PWLDs 2. Product development experience, especially for OS projects 3. Hardware partners for dementia products. Open hardware of interest	1. Accessibility and AT development on various platforms 2. Wide network in a11y/AT space in dev, edu, health and eu 3. Open development experience	Florence - we are taking concepts for ultra simple UIs developed in Maavis and creating a open HTML widget based framework which will work on many platforms	maavis.fullmeasure.co.uk
4	19/11/2012 15:32:20	Darren Awang	Coventry University	1 Very much a newcomer to this area 2 Need to find out/explore current and future issues within open source development 3 How these ideas can link into ideas around convergent technologies and the future internet	1 Enthusiasm 2 Willingness to learn and finding ways of encouraging inclusive learning approaches 3 A university partner who can help in attracting relevant funding streams	TSB Internet of things feasibility study (Completed June 2012) - How Can Smart Home Data and Systems Improve Assisted Living Services? One of 10 studies that will contribute to the development of future convergence demonstrator project.	Main Role Course Director MSc Assistive Technology at Coventry University/ Health Design and Technology Institute
5	20/11/2012 12:18:22	John Gill	JGT Ltd	1. Partners who can scientifically analyse unmet user requirements. 2. Partners with skills for managing trans-national multi-disciplinary projects. 3. Partners with experience of better systems for the exploitation of the results.	1. Expertise in accessibility of public terminals. 2. Standardisation. 3. European funding.	Adaptable user interfaces for public terminals. A small number of pilot sites exist, but no clear plan as to how to get widespread adoption of the open standard.	Current gaps include: 1. Practical indoor navigation system for blind pedestrians. 2. Systems to improve adherence to medications. 3. Systems for the automated analysis of an individual's needs. 4. Tools for the automated accessibility testing of complete systems.
6	20/11/2012 16:53:20	Terry McAndrew	JISC TechDis and Higher Education Academy	1: Accessibility and Inclusion case studies (unprompted) for HE and before. 2: Academic attention (accessibility not being a priority) 3: Exploration time for new innovations/technologies x::Time for everything else x: Funding for everything else	1: Networking and advice for AT in Education 2: Resources to upskill communities 3: Resources to utilise in learning and teaching (own + others)	Toolbox including voices http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/tbx	Link to website would provide lots more info to support 45 seconds. http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/
7	21/11/2012 00:01:33	E.A. Draffan	University of Southampton	1: Cultural personalisation of AT 2: Support to encourage international web sites to follow W3C WCAG guidelines 3: Free TTS in a wider range of languages including Arabic	1: Accessibility expertise related to the field of disability 2: Enabling and assistive technology expertise 3: Team experience in developing accessible open web, app and software devrelopment	Mada Funded ATbar in Arabic and English - an opensource cross browser toolbar aiding accessibility of web pages. The toolbar comes with a market place of plugins and a toolkit that allows others to develop their own toolbar.	We have a wide range of projects that range from web accessibility, toolbars and pen drive apps plus support for ebook accessibility, video annotation, linked data and digital pen research.
8	21/11/2012 12:40:49	Manuel Ortega	Technosite	- Finding new business models for accessibility and ICT - Get to market after project ending in Consortium projects. Transition from R&D to production. Contact with service providers - Production of fast functional prototypes as proof of concepts	- Accessibility and usability - Machine Learning - Experience in international projects - Knowledge on health, social-care and Spanish AT industry	ATIS4all: European collaborative portal on ICT-ATs with all stakeholder of the chain of value.	APSIS4all: Personalizes user interfaces for Public Digital Terminals Enthusiam
9	21/11/2012 16:13:42	Paolo Di Prodi	Robomotic ltd	We are building a platform for the eldery and we are in need of people with the following profiles: * medical practitioner who is aware of the new technologies that are coming up in ICT in telecare, telehealth and eHealth * an expert in medical policy and regulation * an expert in HCI for the elderly population	We are primarly an innovative high-tech company with experience in medical devices, sensor network technolgy and data analysis. We have experience with open source projects for the DIY market and we are involved in a number of open source project. We are particularly focused on the use of AI for the analysis of real time series of data wheater that means environmental data or medical data. We are also interested in building robotics platforms for fun and profit.	Our primary project is EMMA a platform that combines traditional telecare with smart homes to provide an holistic solution to remote care. The platform is open source and hardware and we want the community (private or public) to play an active role in terms of content and product generation. The idea is to provide a cost effective solution for promoting self-management of people within a certain condition or a particular age and offer tools for the integration with existing institutional care providers.
10	21/11/2012 17:31:40	Mike Pluke	Castle Consulting Ltd.	- Enough persuasive arguments to encourage industry that enhancing accessibility is a mainstream activity that will be benefit their core business interests - Tools that support the development of accessible designs as the default option - Developers that understand that persons with disabilities are able to and want to do exactly the same things that they do!	- A background in user profiles and personalization. Personalization solutions have significant potential to leverage the deployment of accessible solutions - A deep and broad understanding of user experience issues in telecommunications - Able to initiate standardization activities related to accessibility within ICT (particularly within ETSI)	I am leading the development of a European standard on "Accessibility requirements for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe". This is a European equivalent to Section 508 and considerable effort is being made to maximise harmonisation between their common requirements. The long (and undoubtedly painful) process of formal approval of this standard is about to begin.
11	21/11/2012 17:33:34	Peter Cudd	University of Sheffield	Programmers System/device development Projects with focus on accessibility	User requirements gathering User evaluation user participation	New 'Maavis' - Employing IT for activities of daily life without the need to understand it. - Used by older people without training. - Used in learning disabilities context - Now targeting people living with dementia.
12	21/11/2012 22:45:35	Mike Pluke	Castle Consulting Ltd.	- Enough persuasive arguments to encourage industry that enhancing accessibility is a mainstream activity that will be benefit their core business interests - Tools that support the development of accessible designs as the default option - Developers that understand that persons with disabilities are able to and want to do exactly the same things that they do!	- A background in user profiles and personalization. Personalization solutions have significant potential to leverage the deployment of accessible solutions - A deep and broad understanding of user experience issues in telecommunications - Able to initiate standardization activities related to accessibility within ICT (particularly within ETSI)	I am leading the development of a European standard on "Accessibility requirements for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe". This is a European equivalent to Section 508 and considerable effort is being made to maximise harmonisation between their common requirements. The long (and undoubtedly painful) process of formal approval of this standard is about to begin.
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