Ontologies in Interactive Systems - ONTORACT'08 International Workshop

Since April 2008, a "digital inclusion" research cluster gathering researchers and professional practitioners from British universities and industry has focused on discussing and developing methodologies to increase the accessibility of digital systems to "digitally disenfranchised groups", including special needs and elderly users. We here report on the Ontologies and Interactive Systems international workshop (Ontoract'08), which was held as a related activity to this initiative. The workshop gathered experts and researchers who discussed their respective expertise and exchanged their experiences of using knowledge-based methodologies and techniques to solve complex HCI and interaction design issues. Of particular interest were solutions designed to address the challenges of inclusion for all in the digital society.

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