WEIMS2009 Program, Dec. 12 -13

Dec. 12
Session A 09:30 - 12:00 Opening address / Keynote Lecture 1
09:30 - 09:45 Opening address
Masakazu Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan

09:45 - 11:00 Steps on the Journey to Accessibility
Robert A. Kelly, American Physical Society, USA
John A. Gardner (Demonstration), View Plus Inc., USA

11:00 - 12:00 An Overview of Document Image Recognition
– Layout and Logical Structure Analysis –
Hiroshi Tanaka, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

Lunch 12:00 - 13:30

Session B 13:30 - 15:30 General Talk 1
13:30 - 14:00 A Pattern Recognition Method of Mathematical Figures
Noboru Takagi, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan

14:00 - 14:30 Enhancing mathematical search with names of formulas
Minh Nghiem1, Keisuke Yokoi2 and Akiko Aizawa3

1 Department of Informatics, The Graduate University fr Studies (Sokendai), Japan
2 Department of Computer Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
3 National Institute of Informatics, Japan

14:30 - 15:00 Interlingual Math Contents for eLearning
Hideto Ikeda, Nguyen Thanh Hung, Yu Xinting and N.Idota Department of Computer Science, Ritsumeikan University,Japan

15:00 - 15:30 Using Fonts Within PDF Files to Improve Formula Recognition
Josef B. Baker, Alan P. Sexton and Volker Sorge School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00

Session C 16:00 - 17:30 General Talk 2
16:00 - 16:30 Non Visual Access to Mathematical Contents: State of the Art and Prospective
Dominique Archambault, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France

16:30 - 17:00 Producing Accessible Slide Presentations for Scientific Lectures: a case study for the Italian University in the Mac OS X environment
Valeria Brigatti1, Cristian Bernareggi2, and Enrico Pontelli3

1 Ab.Acus, via Domodossola 7, Milano, Italy
2 Biblioteca di Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
3 Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, USA

17:00 - 17:30 A New Audio Testing Method with Document Structure Tables for the Dyslexic and the Newly Blind
Mamoru Fujiyoshi1, Akio Fujiyoshi2 and Toshiaki Aomatsu3

1 Research Division, the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, Japan
2 Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Ibaraki University, Japan
3 National School for the Blind of Tsukuba University, Japan


Dec. 13
Session D 10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Lecture 2
10:00 - 11:00 DAISY for Scientific Knowledge
Hiroshi Kawamura, the DAISY Consortium, Japan

11:00 - 12:00 What is core skills for visually disabled young students to learn mathematics
Akiyoshi Takamura, National School for the Blind of Tsukuba University, Japan

Lunch 12:00 - 13:30

Session E 13:30 - 15:30 General Talk 3
13:30 - 14:30 Demonstration of Presented Technologies

14:30 - 15:00 Making Automata Accessible to Visually Impaired
Cristian Bernareggi and Giancarlo Dalto, Biblioteca di Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy

15:00 - 15:30 Are Statistics Courses Accessible?
A. Jonathan R. Godfrey, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, New Zea Land

Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00

Session F 16:00 - 17:00 General Talk 4
16:00 - 16:30 Creating paper craftwork with BPLOT – its requirements, building procedures and an applicability to education –
Kazunori Minatani, Research Division, National Center for University Entrance Examinations, Japan

16:30 - 17:00 Accessible Interactive Math and Science Curricula for Young Children
John A. Gardner, Carolyn K. Gardner, Blake Jones and Elizabeth Jones, ViewPlus Technologies, Inc., USA