Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: Digital Media, Education and City Space Accessibility Contexts
暫譯: 改變歐洲媒體無障礙性:數位媒體、教育與城市空間無障礙的背景

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

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-20
  • 售價: $2,320
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,204
  • 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)

在快速演變的數位環境中,媒體的可及性已成為包容性、平等和知識民主的重要前沿。

本書《改變歐洲媒體可及性:數位媒體、教育與城市空間可及性背景》全面探討了歐洲媒體可及性的技術、社會、心理和法律方面。它提供了一個全面的路線圖,以導航媒體可及性的多面向景觀。通過引人入勝的實驗研究、案例研究和前瞻性的見解,本書闡明了可及媒體在教育、文化和智慧城市等多個領域的變革潛力。

本書作為COST(歐洲科學與技術合作)LEAD-ME行動(CA19142)下的合作成果,匯聚了研究人員、教育工作者和實務工作者的專業知識。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)

安·馬庫斯-奎因博士是愛爾蘭利默里克大學技術傳播與教學設計的副教授。她是技術傳播與電子學習碩士課程的課程主任,並且是愛爾蘭都柏林經濟與社會研究所(ESRI)的研究夥伴。她的研究興趣包括電子學習、開放教育資源、可及性、可用性、教學設計,以及在中學後階段使用資訊與通信技術(ICT)。她還為包括歐盟委員會、經濟合作與發展組織(OECD)和歐洲殘疾論壇等國際組織完成了研究報告。安博士是COST行動LEAD-ME(CA19142)的工作組負責人。

克日什托夫·克雷茲博士是波蘭華沙SWPS大學的心理學副教授,並且負責眼動追蹤研究中心。他擁有波蘭華沙大學的心理學博士學位,曾在烏爾姆大學(德國)擔任客座教授。他的研究和教學興趣包括包容性和可及性技術、人機互動與可用性研究、視覺注意力及其動態、眼動追蹤方法與統計,以及多媒體學習。目前,他正在領導一個由歐盟資助的COST行動(CA19142),題為「LEAD-ME:歐洲公民、產業、學術界和政策制定者在媒體可及性方面的領導平台」。

卡洛斯·杜阿特是里斯本大學科學學院的副教授,也是LASIGE的高級研究員,負責包容性人機互動研究方向。他於2008年獲得里斯本大學的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互動、社交網絡和說服性界面,以改善他們的生活質量。對於盲人,他探索了改善網頁可及性或基於身體的互動技術,以改善與移動設備的互動。此外,他還研究了自動化評估網頁可及性的方法。他的工作改善了QualWeb,一個免費的開源網頁可及性評估引擎。最近,他探索了對話代理如何變得更可及,以及大型語言模型如何促進數位可及性。他已發表超過100篇經過審核的技術和科學論文及書籍章節。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。他主導或參與了15個以上的研究項目,包括歐洲和國家級的項目。他是LEAD-ME行動工作組之一的負責人,也是W3C ACT規則社群小組的共同主席,為可及性符合性測試的統一解釋做出貢獻。他曾是W3C EOWG任務小組的一員,負責重新設計網頁可及性教學課程。