DEIMS12 Program (Tentative):
[Wed., Feb. 8, 2012]
12:30 - 13:15 Registration
13:15 - 13:25 Opening Address : Masakazu Suzuki
13:30 - 14:20 Keynote Lecture A
Petr Peňáz and Svatoslav Ondra
"E-Simplicity versus e-Complexity : Some Remarks on the Perspectives of the
Universal Design for Learning"
14:30 - 15:30 Session A
Dorine in 't Veld
"Promoting inclusion in mathematics and science in secondary mainstream and higher education"
Thorsten Schwarz
"Technical Studies and Sciences as a Visually Impaired Person -- Challenges to AT/IT and Study Organisation"
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Session B
Soma Shiraishi, Yaokai Feng and Seiichi Uchida
"Part-Based Skew Estimation for Mathematical Expressions"
Noboru Takagi
"On Consideration of A Pattern Recognition Method for Mathematical Graphs with Broken Lines"
Minh-Quoc Nghiem, Yoko Giovanni, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi and Akiko Aizawa
"Towards Mathematical Expression Understanding"
Announcement on Forth-Coming Events
"the ICCHP Summer University 2012," "the Universal Learning Design Conference (ULD) 2012"
[Thu., Feb. 9, 2012]
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote Lecture B
Alan P. Sexton
"Accessibility in Digital Mathematical Libraries - Current Status and Future Prospects"
10:00 - 11:30 Session C
Mayu Hamada
"Scientific eBooks for All: EPUB3 and DAISY4"
Dominique Archambault
"Maths Content Accessibility"
Hideto Ikeda, Naoya Idota, Ngyen Thang Hung and Ze Zhong Li
"Digitalization of Mathematical Textbooks and Evaluation of the Technology and Result"
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Session D
Jonathan Godfrey
"The BrailleR Project"
Silvia Fajardo-Flores and Dominique Archambault
"Understanding algebraic manipulation: Analysis of the actions of sighted and non-sighted students"
Akio Fujiyoshi and Mamoru Fujiyoshi
"Evaluation of Two Types of New Auditory Testing Media with Paper Booklets and Digital Audio Players for the Active Reading of Test-Takers with Print Disabilities"
Katsuhito Yamaguchi and Masakazu Suzuki
"Problems in Producing Japanese DAISY Mathematical Content and a Solution for Them"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 Session E (Demonstrations)
Thorsten Schwarz
"Adaptation of scientific literature (text and graphics) for visually impaired students using free available software"
Masakazu Suzuki, Koji Nakagawa and Akio Fujiyoshi
"Optical Chemical-Structure Recognition by ChemInfty"
Jonathan Godfrey
"The BrailleR Project"
Masakazu Suzuki, Katsuhito Yamaguchi and Toshihiro Kanahori
"The Production of DAISY content with ChattyInfty3"
and Others
18:00 - Dinner
[Fri., Feb. 10, 2012]
09:00 - 11:30 Session F
Dominique Archambault, Olga Caprotti, Aarne Ranta and Jordi Saludes
"Using GF in multimodal assistants for mathematics"
Jonathan Godfrey
"Putting it all together --- A blind person's perspective on developing a toolbox for document preparation"
Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, and Masaki Nakagawa
"Development of Tactile Graph Automated Creation Software"
Cristian Bernareggi and Giuseppe Nicotra
"Transcribing Scientific Textbooks for Secondary School blind students: the Italian Experience"
Takashi Suzuki and Tomoyuki Araki
"On a System Supporting Visually Impaired Students in Learning Science via the Haptic Device" (Research Proposal)
Concluding Remark
13:00 - Excursion
If you have any questions, please contact Katsuhito Yamaguchi at
The workshop contact e-mail address: deims12-office "@" gaea.jcn.nihon-u.ac.jp
(please remove quotation marks included in the above address)
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