Research Lines  •

Accessibility and Ageing

Description

LASIGE presents a longstanding record of research contributions in the area of accessible computing, in assessing, designing, and developing technologies for people with different abilities. The Accessibility and Ageing (AA) research line gathers all the contributions that seek to evaluate or design interfaces for people with disabilities, older adults, or people suffering from situational impairments.

Scientific areas

  • Accessible computing
  • Assistive technologies
  • Mobile accessibility
  • Web accessibility
  • Adaptive interfaces
  • Ability‐based design
  • Interaction design for people with disabilities
  • Interaction design for older adults
  • Alternative and augmentative communication
  • Crowdsourcing for accessibility

Leader:

Tiago Guerreiro

ONGOING

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
IDEA-FAST Identify Digital Endpoints to Assess FAtigue, Sleep and acTivities of daily living IMI 01/11/2019 30/04/2025
LEAD-ME Leading Platform for European Citizens, Industries, Academia and Policymakers in Media Accessibility COST ACTION 13/10/2020 12/10/2024
LEMON LEtter learning through MOtor training: Neurocognitive specialization for the written code investigated with electrophysiological, eye-tracking, and computational tools FCT 01/03/2021 29/02/2024
Wai-CooP Web Accessibility Initiative – Communities of Practice EU H2020 01/01/2021 31/12/2023
WideHealth Widening Research on Pervasive and eHealth EU H2020 01/01/2021 30/06/2023
FoodParenting Food Parenting: study of a new web-based parent intervention FCT 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Cue Band wearable for Parkinson's Other 20/09/2021 19/03/2022
SONAAR Social Networks Accessible Authoring EU 01/02/2020 31/07/2021

PAST

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
WAI-Tools Web Accessibility Initiative - Advanced Decision Support Tools for Scalable Web Accessibility Assessments EU H2020 01/11/2017 31/01/2021
INPLAY Designing games for inclusive play with the visually impaired and sighted FCT 16/03/2020 16/09/2020
ALHTOUR Assisted Living Technologies for the Health Tourism Sector EU H2020 01/01/2016 31/12/2018
ACCESSMONITOR Sistema Online de Monitorização das Práticas de Acessibilidade dos sítios Web da Administração Pública Portuguesa FCT 20/12/2017 20/12/2018
AGEISM AGEISM - a multi-national, interdisciplinary perspective COST ACTION 19/11/2014 18/11/2018
PersonAAL Personalized web applications to improve quality of life and remote care for older adults AAL | FCT 01/10/2015 30/09/2018
Acronym Short Description
Gerador declarações de acessibilidade A tool for generating accessibility declarations according to the Portuguese model
PLACM A tool for visualization of large-scale volumes of accessibility data
AccessBot A tool for assisting web accessibility evaluations
QualWeb extension The QualWeb acessibility evaluation engine to be used in Chromium based browsers
QualWeb online The QualWeb accessibility evaluation as an online service
BATS/ACCembly Android mobile app to use tangible blocks with TopCodes to control the Dash robot
NeuroVRehab.PT A web-based digital neurorehabilitation platform that allows people with MCI to perform tasks in a photo-realistic interactive supermarket
SF4K A web application to promote healthy eating in children from 2 to 6 years
Datapark A platform that enables subjective and objective data collection for Parkinson’s disease
Roteiro dos Descobrimentos Mobile app designed for children that allows the digital exploration of the city of Lisbon based on the theme of the Portuguese Discoveries
Scrapbook A web platform that supports psychologists in the process of collecting meaningful information about a person, and applying it in reminiscence and cognitive stimulation sessions
QualWeb engine An automated web accessibility evaluation engine with support for WCAG 2.1 and ACT-Rules
Rankores Allows users to vote on news thus helping with their validation and taking advantage of social networks by sharing news we validate
O Mundo em Pessoa A collaboration project with Sapo Labs for the celebration of the 125th year of birth of Fernando Pessoa
Lusica A project of automatic collection of music quotes of Lusophone artists from the social networks
SASUL APP An app that enables all the students to check the menus and balance in refectories of the University of Lisbon
Missinks A web application that given a search query identifies the links in the first two pages of a given Google country search engine
CIDS A user-friendly web tool that calculates different citation statistics
LASIGE is supported by FCT via projects UIDB/00408/2020 and UIDP/00408/2020

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