Committees

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Conference Chair

• Hugo Paredes – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Conference Co-Chairs

• Lourdes Moreno-Lopez – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Franz Puehretmair – KI-I, Austria

Organization Chair

• Paulo Martins – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Organization Committee

• André Sousa – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• António Marques – University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Arsénio Reis – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Dennis Paulino – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Luis Fernandes – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Ricardo Rodrigues Nunes – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Salik Ram Khanal – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Special Tracks Organization Chair

• Tânia Rocha – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Publication Chairs

• Mireia Ribera Turró – University of Barcelona, Spain
• Renata Fortes – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Conference Scientific Committee

• Adérito Fernandes-Marcos – Universidade Aberta, Portugal
• Ana Correia de Barros – Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal
• Ana Iglesias – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Ana Isabel Paraguay – Officio e Ambiente Ltda, Brazil
• Anastasios Mikropoulos – University of Ioannina, Greece
• Antje Bierwisch – Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany
• António Coelho – INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Antonio Pereira – Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• António Teixeira – DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Athanassios Jimoyiannis – Dept. of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese, Greece
• Benjamim Fonseca – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Bernhard Stoeger – University of Linz, Austria
• Cecilia Sik Lanyi – University of Pannonia, Hungary
• Cèsar Collazos – Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
• Christian Bühler – TU-Dortmund University, Germany
• Christian Liesen – University of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education, Switzerland
• Christina Marouli – The American College of Greece – Deree, Greece
• Christine Strauss – University of Vienna, Austria
• Daniel Gonçalves – INESC-ID, Portugal
• Donal Fitzpatrick – Dublin City University, Ireland
• Emmanouil Zidianakis – ICS-FORTH, Greece
• Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo – Fundación Sidar, Spain
• Enrico Pontelli – New Mexico State University, United States
• Euripidis Loukis – University of the Aegean, Greece
• Francisco Florez-Revuelta – Kingston University, United Kingdom
• Francisco Javier Martínez Calvo – Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE), Spain
• Frode Eika Sandnes – Oslo and Akershus University College – HiOA, Norway
• Gabriel Pires – Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Gael Dias – Normandy University, France
• Gerhard Nussbaum – Kompetenznetzwerk KI-I, Austria
• Gerhard Weber – Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Gustavo Rossi – Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
• György Wersényi – Széchenyi István University, Hungary
• James Coughlan – Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, United States
• João Rodrigues – University of the Algarve, Portugal
• Jörg Thomaschewski – University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
• José Alves Diniz – Faculdade de Motricidade Humana – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• José Antonio Borges – Instituto Tércio Pacitti da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• José Luis Sevillano – Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Katsuhito Yamaguchi – Nihon University, Japan
• Klaus Miesenberger – University of Linz, Austria
• Laura Burzagli – IFAC CNR, Italy
• Leonel Morgado – Universidade Aberta and INESC TEC, Portugal
• Leontios Hadjileontiadis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Ling-fu Meng – Department of Occupational Therapy, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
• Loïc Martínez-Normand – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Luís Garcia – Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
• Luis Gonzalez-Garcia – Spanish National Organization of the Blind (ONCE), Spain
• Manuel J. Fonseca – University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Marcelo Mendonça Teixeira – Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Marlene Hilzensauer – Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt (Center for Sign Language and Deaf Communication), Austria
• Matjaž Debevc – University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Michael Tjalve – Microsoft, University of Washington, United States
• Miltiadis Lytras – American College of Greece, Greece
• Mireia Ribera – Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Morten Tollefsen – MediaLT, Norway
• Myriam Lewkowicz – Troyes University of Technology, France
• Paloma Martínez – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Paraskevi Papadopoulou – DEREE-The American College of Greece, Greece
• Paul Tréhin, France
• Pier Luigi Emiliani – National Reserach Council Of Italy, Italy
• Ramiro Gonçalves – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Reinaldo Ferraz – Ceweb.br, Brazil
• Roland Vollmar – Lehrstuhl Informatik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, Germany
• Shadi Abou-Zahra – W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), France
• Stavroula Ntoa – FORTH-ICS, Greece
• Thais Castro – Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
• Tiago Cardoso – Uninova, Portugal
• Tiago Guerreiro – LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Vítor Filipe – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Vitor Santos – NOVA IMS, Portugal
• Wallace Ugulino – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Weiqin Chen – Oslo and Akershus University College – HiOA, Norway
• Wolfgang Zagler – Vienna University of Technology – IGW/AAT, Austria
• Wolfram Wöß – Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Yehya Mohamad – Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

Steering Committee

• João Barroso – INESC TEC and University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Leontios Hadjileontiadis – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Vítor Santos – Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão da Informação (ISEGI-NOVA), Portugal