Julio Abascal

Professor

Has also published under the name of:
"J. Abascal"


Personal Homepage:
sc.ehu.es/acwbbpke/JAbascal.html
Current place of employment:
University of the Basque Country-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Julio Abascal, B.S.D. in Physics (Universidad de Navarra, 1978) and Ph. D. in Informatics (Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 1987), is a Professor of the Computer Architecture and Technology Department of the University of the Basque Country, (Spain) where he works since 1981. In 1985 he co-founded the Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction for Special Needs that has participated in several R&D projects at national and international level.
His research activity is focussed on the application of Human-Computer Interaction methods and techniques to the Assistive Technology, including the design of ubiquitous, adaptive and accessible user interfaces. He has developed human-robot interfaces for smart wheelchairs in the Assistive Mobile Robotics field. These experiences have applied to the development of Smart Homes for people with disability under the Ambience Intelligence philosophy. Currently he also leads a research group aiming to develop methods and tools to enhance physical and cognitive accessibility to the web.
He is the Spanish representative in the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on "Human-Computer Interaction" from 1991, and the former and founder chairman (in 1993) of IFIP WG 13.3 “Human-Computer Interaction and Disability”. He served as a member of the Management Committee of COST 219 ter “Accessibility for All to Services and Terminals for Next Generation Networks” and previously of the COST 219 bis “Telecommunications: Access for Disabled and elderly People”. From 1990 he also served as an advisor, reviewer and evaluator for diverse EU research programs (TIDE, TAP, IST…).

Publications by Julio Abascal (bibliography)

-- Choose Citation Style -- Standard format APA format MLA formatBibTex formatEndNote/Refer format what's this?

» 2009 «

Aizpurua, Amaia, Arrue, Myriam, Vigo, Markel and Abascal, Julio (2009): Transition of accessibility evaluation tools to new standards. In: Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility W4A 2009. pp. 36-44. Available online

» 2008 «

Abascal, Julio, Bonail, Borja, Marco, Alvaro, Casas, Roberto and Sevillano, José Luis (2008): AmbienNet: an intelligent environment to support people with disabilities and elderly people. In: Tenth Annual ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies 2008. pp. 293-294. Available online

Arrue, Myriam, Vigo, Markel and Abascal, Julio (2008): Web accessibility awareness in search engine results. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 7 (1) pp. 103-116

Vigo, Markel, Aizpurua, Amaia, Arrue, Myriam and Abascal, Julio (2008): Evaluating web accessibility for specific mobile devices. In: Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility W4A 2008. pp. 65-72. Available online

Abascal, Julio, Castro, Isabel Fernández de, Lafuente, Alberto and Cia, Jesus Maria (2008): Adaptive Interfaces for Supportive Ambient Intelligence Environments. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2008 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 11th International Conference July 9-11, 2008, Linz, Austria. pp. 30-37. Available online

Vigo, Markel, Aizpurua, Amaia, Arrue, Myriam and Abascal, Julio (2008): Automatic Creation of User Profiles for Achieving Personal Web Accessibility. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2008 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 11th International Conference July 9-11, 2008, Linz, Austria. pp. 354-361. Available online

» 2007 «

Vigo, Markel, Arrue, Myriam, Brajnik, Georgio, Lomuscio, Raffaella and Abascal, Julio (2007): Quantitative metrics for measuring web accessibility. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) 2007. pp. 99-107. Available online

Abascal, Julio, Baranauskas, Cecilia, Barbosa, Simone D. J., Junqueira, Diniz and Palanque, Philippe A. (eds.) Proc. of 11th IFIP TC 13 Int. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT2007 September 10-14, 2007, Rio de Janeiro.

Vigo, Markel, Kobsa, Alfred, Arrue, Myriam and Abascal, Julio (2007): User-tailored web accessibility evaluations. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2007. pp. 95-104. Available online

Baranauskas, Cecilia, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) Proceedings of the INTERACT 2007 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

López, Juan Miguel, Fajardo, Inmaculada and Abascal, Julio (2007): Towards Remote Empirical Evaluation of Web Pages' Usability. In: Jacko, Julie A. (ed.) HCI International 2007 - 12th International Conference - Part I July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 594-603. Available online

Abascal, Julio and Azevedo, Luis (2007): Fundamentals of Inclusive HCI Design. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) UAHCI 2007 - 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction - Part 1 July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 3-9. Available online

Arrue, Myriam, Vigo, Markel, Aizpurua, Amaia and Abascal, Julio (2007): Accessibility Guidelines Management Framework. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007 Held as Part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 Proceedings, Part July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. pp. 3-10. Available online

Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

González, María Paula, Granollers, Toni, Collazos, César A. and Abascal, Julio (2007): The AIPO Society: Present and Future Trends. In: Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) DEGAS 2007 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of e-Government Applications and Services September 11th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 635-636. Available online

Obrenovic, Zeljko, Abascal, Julio and Starcevic, Dusan (2007): Universal accessibility as a multimodal design issue. In Communications of the ACM, 50 (5) pp. 83-88

Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) Interact 2007 - Proceedings of the11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference September 10th-14th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Baranauskas, Maria Cecília Calani, Palanque, Philippe A., Abascal, Julio and Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira (eds.) INTERACT 2007 - Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 7th, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

» 2006 «

Fajardo, I., Canas, J. J., Salmeron, L. and Abascal, Julio (2006): Improving deaf users accessibility in hypertext information retrieval: are graphical interfaces useful for them?. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 25 (6) pp. 455-467

Garay-Vitoria, Nestor and Abascal, Julio (2006): Text prediction systems: a survey. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 4 (3) pp. 188-203

Arrue, Myriam, Vigo, Markel and Abascal, Julio (2006): Automatic Evaluation of Mobile Web Accessibility. In: Proceedings of the 9th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2006. pp. 244-260. Available online

Casas, Roberto, Marco, Alvaro, Falcó, Jorge L., Artigas, José Ignacio and Abascal, Julio (2006): Ethically Aware Design of a Location System for People with Dementia. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2006 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 10th International Conference July 11-13, 2006, Linz, Austria. pp. 777-784. Available online

Arrue, Myriam, Vigo, Markel and Abascal, Julio (2006): Architecture for Personal Web Accessibility. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2006 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 10th International Conference July 11-13, 2006, Linz, Austria. pp. 120-127. Available online

Weber, Gerhard and Abascal, Julio (2006): People with Disabilities: Materials for Teaching Accessibility and Design for All. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Karshmer, Arthur I. (eds.) ICCHP 2006 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 10th International Conference July 11-13, 2006, Linz, Austria. pp. 337-340. Available online

» 2005 «

Abascal, Julio and Nicolle, Colette (2005): Moving towards inclusive design guidelines for socially and ethically aware HCI. In Interacting with Computers, 17 (5) pp. 484-505

» 2004 «

Fajardo, Inmaculada, Abascal, Julio and Canas, Jose J. (2004): The Role of Working Memory and Long Term Memory in Deaf Users\' Hypertext Navigation: Review of Guidelines for Web Accessibility. In: Proceedings of the 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2004. p. 320. Available online

Garay-Vitoria, Nestor and Abascal, Julio (2004): A Comparison of Prediction Techniques to Enhance the Communication Rate. In: Proceedings of the 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2004. p. 400. Available online

Abascal, Julio, Arrue, Myriam, Fajardo, Inmaculada, Garay, Nestor and Tomas, Jorge (2004): The use of guidelines to automatically verify Web accessibility. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 3 (1) pp. 71-79

Abascal, Julio, Gardeazabal, Luis and Garay-Vitoria, Nestor (2004): Optimisation of the Selection Set Features for Scanning Text Input. In: Klaus, Joachim, Miesenberger, Klaus, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Burger, Dominique (eds.) ICCHP 2004 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 9th International Conference July 7-9, 2004, Paris, France. pp. 788-795. Available online

Sevillano, José Luis, Falcó, Jorge L., Abascal, Julio, Balcells, Antón Civit, Jiménez, Gabriel, Diaz, Saturnino Vicente and Casas, Roberto (2004): On the Design of Ambient Intelligent Systems in the Context of Assistive Technologies. In: Klaus, Joachim, Miesenberger, Klaus, Zagler, Wolfgang L. and Burger, Dominique (eds.) ICCHP 2004 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 9th International Conference July 7-9, 2004, Paris, France. pp. 914-921. Available online

» 2003 «

Abascal, Julio and Garay, N. (2003): Teaching design for all in HCI. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2003. pp. 3-7.

Abascal, Julio, Cagigas, D., Garay, N. and Gardeazabal, L. (2003): Mobile interfaces for people with severe motor restrictions. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2003. pp. 289-293.

Abascal, Julio, Arrue, M., Garay, N. and Tomas, J. (2003): A Web Service for Automatic Accessibility Analysis of Web Pages Based on the Use of XML Structures. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2003. pp. 925-929.

Fajardo, I., Canas, J., Salmeron, L. and Abascal, Julio (2003): Towards a Cognitive Accessibility Guideline based on Empirical Evidences of Deaf Users Web Interaction. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2003. pp. 950-954.

Darzentas, John, Arnellos, Argyris, Darzentas, Jenny, Koutsabasis, Panayiotis, Spyrou, Thomas, Viorres, Nikos, Vlachogiannis, Evangelos, Velasco, Carlos A., Mohamad, Yehya, Abascal, Julio, Tomas-Guerra, Jorge and Arrue-Recondo, Myriam (2003): IRIS: Implementing an Open Environment supporting Inclusive Design of Internet Applications. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 749.

HCI, Joint Workshop of IFIP WG 13.1 Education in, HCI, WG 13.3 on, Noirhomme-Fraiture, Monique, Nicolle, Colette, Kotze, Paula and Abascal, Julio (2003): Including Accessibility and Inclusive Design in the Curriculum for Human-Computer Interaction. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 1047.

Abascal, Julio and Lores, Jesus (2003): HCI in Spain. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 1077.

» 2002 «

Abascal, Julio, Arrue, Myriam, Garay, Nestor and Tomas, Jorge (2002): USERfit Tool. A Tool to Facilitate Design for All. In: Carbonell, Noelle and Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 23-25, 2002, Paris, France. pp. 141-152.

Abascal, Julio, Cagigas, Daniel, Garay-Vitoria, Nestor and Gardeazabal, Luis (2002): Mobile Interface for a Smart Wheelchair. In: Paterno, Fabio (ed.) Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - 4th International Symposium - Mobile HCI 2002 September 18-20, 2002, Pisa, Italy. pp. 373-377. Available online

» 2001 «

Nicolle, Colette and Abascal, Julio (2001): Inclusive design guidelines for HCI. Taylor and Francis
 View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk  

Nicolle, Collette and Abascal, Julio (eds.) (2001): Inclusive Design Guidelines for Human-Computer Interaction. Taylor and Francis
 View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk  

Abascal, Julio, Nicolle, Colette and Noirhomme-Fraiture, M. (2001): Issues on the Application of Guidelines to the Design of HCI Systems for People with Disabilities. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT01: Human-Computer Interaction 2001, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 845-846.

Abascal, Julio and Civit, Anton (2001): Bridging the gap between design for all and assistive devices. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) HCI International 2001 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, USA. pp. 3-7.

Koutsabasis, Panayiotis, Darzentas, Jenny S., Abascal, Julio, Spyrou, Thomas and Darzentas, John (2001): Designing Internet-based systems and services for all: problems and solutions. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) HCI International 2001 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, USA. pp. 31-35.

Abascal, Julio and Civit, Anton (2001): Universal access to mobile telephony as a way to enhance the autonomy of elderly people. In: Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF Workshop on Universal Accessibility of Ubiquitous Computing 2001. pp. 93-99. Available online

» 2000 «

Abascal, Julio and Civit, Anton (2000): Mobile Communication for People with Disabilities and Older People: New Opportunities for Autonomous Life. In: Emiliani, Pier Luigi and Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 25-26, 2000, Florence, Italy. p. 14. Available online

» 1994 «

Garay-Vitoria, Nestor and Abascal, Julio (1994): Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods in a Word-Prediction Aid. In: Zagler, Wolfgang L., Bushy, Geoff and Wagner, Roland (eds.) ICCHP94 - Computers for Handicapped Persons - 4th International Conference September 14-16, 1994, Vienna, Austria. pp. 363-370.

Changes to this page (author)

26 Feb 2010: Enabled abstracts to be shown on Julio Abascal's author page.
05 Feb 2010: Author was edited (approved by an editor)