Michael Pieper
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» 2007 «
Stephanidis, Constantine and Pieper, Michael (2007): User Interfaces For All”: Universal Access in Ambient Intelligence Environments. Springer
Keates, Simeon, Adams, Ray, Bodine, Cathy, Czaja, Sara J., Gordon, Wayne, Gregor, Peter, Hacker, Emily, Hanson, Vicki, Kemp, John, Laff, Mark, Lewis, Clayton H. and Pieper, Michael (2007): Cognitive and learning difficulties and how they affect access to IT systems. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 5 (4) pp. 329-339
“In October 2005, the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center and T.J. Watson Research Center hosted a symposium on "cognitive and learning difficulties and how they affect access to IT systems". The central premise of the symposium was the recognition that cognitive and learning difficulties have a profound impact on a person's ability to interact with information technology (IT) systems, but that little support is currently being offered by those systems. By bringing together internationally renowned experts from a variety of different, but complementary, research fields, the symposium aimed to provide a complete overview of the issues related to this topic. This paper summarises the discussions and findings of the symposium.”
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» 2006 «
Schulz, Martina and Pieper, Michael (2006): Web Compliance Management: Barrier-Free Websites Just by Simply Pressing the Button? Accessibility and the Use of Content-Management-Systems. In: Proceedings of the 9th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2006. pp. 419-426. Available online
“The World Wide Web has become an important instrument of social participation, equal opportunities and self-determination. Especially for disabled people and the elderly, the Internet offers the possibility to take care of their affairs by themselves and to compensate lost mobility to a certain degree. Therefore information on the Internet should be easy to access, easy to use as well as easy to understand. However, disabled people, unpracticed users and the elderly - because of their specific functional limitations and needs - encounter barriers and restrictions in accessing many websites. In order to refresh contents of a website, many software producers have put an effort in developing easy-to-use content-management-systems (CMS) which most recently address the topic of accessibility as well. The central aim of the study presented in this paper was to find out whether certain CMSs in fact do offer a technology which allows for an editor to refresh a barrier-free website without special knowledge in accessibility by simply "pressing the button" of a CMS integrated tool, which claims to automatically offer compliance with standard accessibility guidelines.”
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» 2004 «
Pieper, Michael, Anderweit, Renate, Schulte, Beate, Peter, Ulrike, Croll, Jutta and Cornelssen, Iris (2004): Methodological Approaches to Identify Honorable Best Practice in Barrier-Free Web Design -- Examples from Germany\'s 1st BIENE Award Competition. In: Proceedings of the 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All 2004. p. 360. Available online
“In the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003 the major German social organisation Aktion Mensch (German Association for the Care of the Disabled) and the Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation) have for the first time jointly initiated a competition for the design of barrier-free websites. The so-called BIENE-Award is meant to honour the best barrier-free web sites in the German language and to present them as best practice examples. BIENE stressing the objectives of promoting communication, joint action and productive cooperation. This article refers upon the methodological approach underlying the evaluation of competitive award contributions.”
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Anderweit, Renate and Pieper, Michael (2004): German BIENE award reveals best practice in barrier-free Web design. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 3 (3) pp. 272-275
“In the European year of people with disabilities 2003 the major German social organisation Aktion Mensch and the Stiftung Digitale Chancen (digital opportunities foundation) have for the first time jointly initiated a competition for the design of barrier-free Web sites. The so-called BIENE award is meant to honor the best barrier-free Web sites in the German language and to present them as best practice examples. In this context, the acronym BIENE stands for Barrierefreies Internet eroffnet neue Einsichten (barrier-free Internet reveals new insights), stressing the objectives of promoting communication, joint action and productive cooperation.”
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» 2003 «
Stroetmann, Karl A., Pieper, Michael and Stroetmann, Veli N. (2003): Understanding patients: participatory approaches for the user evaluation of vital data presentation. In: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Conference on Universal Usability 2003. pp. 93-97. Available online
“The objective of our research was to undertake first steps to analyse patient access to their electronic health records (EHR) as a crucial universal access issue: Why is patient involvement becoming a key issue, what approaches are available to learn more about patient attitudes and needs, which concrete outcomes can be obtained from such research? The paper outlines a reference scenario for tele home monitoring of chronically ill patients including measurement devices and system environment, provides an assessment of selected participatory approaches like questionnaires, interviews and group discussions, and reports about universal access design issues from a patient perspective. Concrete conclusions concerning access devices and presentation of EHR contents are developed. To allow all citizens equality in access, to benefit from advances in eHealth and to avoid a "Medical Divide", creativity, innovations and support are needed to progress towards a true Information Society for all also in the health arena.”
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Stroetmann, K. and Pieper, Michael (2003): Participatory Approaches towards Universal Access - Results of a Case Study in the Healthcare Domain. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2003. pp. 1213-1217.
Pieper, Michael, Morasch, H. and Piela, G. (2003): Bridging the educational divide. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 2 (3) pp. 243-254
“The sharpest visible divide in Internet utilisation, which has deepened in recent years, is an educational one. Especially with regard to the learning disabled, the educational digital divide requires the improvement of inclusive didactical measures to promote media competence. A major prerequisite, which as a basic architectural principle determines systems design, in this respect demands support of evolutionary learning by tutorial learning systems designed as guidance systems which accord closely with the individual pupils evolutionary process.”
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» 2002 «
Pieper, Michael and Anderweit, Renate (2002): Sociable Information Environments. 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. 239-248.
“This paper aims at stimulating further discussion about future work in the realm of "Intelligent Environments of Use" (EoUs). Under concern are Sociable Information Environments. Up to now user interface design has been discussed with regard to standardization or even personalization. User interfaces which push towards sociability will have a new quality which implies a seamless symbiosis between humans, EoUs and the real world. Some examples of "visualizing presence in social cyberspaces" show the importance of sociable user interface to reflect group performance and cohesion. Sociological reasoning to define a conceptual model for sociable interface design is grounded on two sociological concepts; "situated life" and "supply and demand concatenation". The concept of supply and demand concatenation" has to be operationalized by ontologies to be derived from the circumstances of "situated life" in different societal subsystems.”
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Pieper, Michael (2002): Recommending Context-Sensitive and Process-Oriented Tourist Information to the Disabled - The PALIO Case. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim and Zagler, Wolfgang L. (eds.) ICCHP 2002 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 8th International Conference July 15-20, 2002, Linz, Austria. pp. 19-26. Available online
Pieper, Michael (2002): Tutorial Systems to Teach Standard Applications to the Learning Disabled. In: Miesenberger, Klaus, Klaus, Joachim and Zagler, Wolfgang L. (eds.) ICCHP 2002 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 8th International Conference July 15-20, 2002, Linz, Austria. pp. 83-89. Available online
» 2001 «
Leidermann, Frank, Pieper, Michael and Weber, Harald (2001): Design for All. Konzepte, Umsetzungen, Herausforderungen. In: Oberquelle, Horst, Oppermann, Reinhard and Krause, Jürgen (eds.) Mensch and Computer 2001 March 5-8, 2001, Bad Honnef, Germany. . Available online
Paetau, Michael and Pieper, Michael (2001): Sustainable information environments and informed sustainability. 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. 1093-1097.
» 2000 «
Tebarth, Holger, Mohamad, Yehya and Pieper, Michael (2000): Cognitive Training by Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA) -- Development of a Tele-Medical System for Memory Improvement in Children with Epilepsy. 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. 11. Available online
“Recent psychological research demonstrates, that children with cognitive disorders can clearly benefit by special training of meta-memory strategies. Though up to now this kind of memory training requires a specialized coach who performs an individual motivational support. In the consequence we started to develop a tele-medical Training system that is primarily based on the concept of Animated Pedagogical Agents (TAPA). These agents that inhabit interactive training environments can exhibit lifelike behaviours and are able to impart and coach memory strategies in a very suitable way to children. In addition to provide problem-solving advice in response to children's activities, these agents may also be able to play a powerful motivational role. The TAPA-System realizes furthermore a web-based use for an economical, prolonged and controlled intervention in large numbers of neuropaediatric patients. The user interface adaptivity to the individual child is based on nontrivial inferences from input information.”
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» 1999 «
Pieper, Michael (1999): Information environments to overcome isolation, marginalization and stigmatization in an overaging information society. In: 1999. pp. 883-887.
» 1998 «
Hermsdorf, Dirk, Gappa, Henrike and Pieper, Michael (1998): WebAdapter: A Prototype of a WWW-Browser with New Special Needs Adaptations. In: Stephanidis, Constantine and Waern, Annika (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 19-21, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. p. 15. Available online
“This paper presents a prototypical WWW (World Wide Web)-browser called "WebAdapter", which provides new special needs adaptations for physically handicapped, blind and visually impaired end-users. These adaptations include near miss tolerances, implementation of sophisticated HTML-guidelines and advanced speech output. For evaluation purposes a usability test was conducted proving the suitability of the implemented special needs adaptations. The future goal of this work is a user interface for all (UI4All) for a standard Webbrowser. With regard to this perspective, the WebAdapter is still an reactive approach in that it only reacts to shortcomings of common Webbrowsers instead of proactively integrating a standardized software layer between the user front-end and underlying applications by which the I/O-Interface can easily and universally be adapted to a variety of different personal needs of handicapped as well as able-bodied end-users. Thus, the WebAdapter only illustrates some new special needs adaptations which may be included into future versions of common WWW-browsers in order to move another step towards a UI4All. Further inevitable improvements of the user interface of WWW-browsers for disabled and elderly people beyond the scope of this project are discussed as well.”
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» 1996 «
Pieper, Michael, Gappa, Henrike and Hermsdorf, Dirk (1996): BSCW for Disabled Teleworkers: Usability Evaluation and Interface Adaptation of an Internet-Based Cooperation Environment. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All November 7-8, 1996, Prague, Czech Republic. p. 7. Available online
“TEDIS (TEleworking for DISabled People) is a research & development project of the research group on Human Computer Interaction at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD). TEDIS is an assistive technology contribution to the promotional program "Telecooperation -- Value Added Services" of the German Federal Department for Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) and human computer interface for accessing internet, which can be adapted to a variety of different needs of handicapped as well as elderly people. As part of a field-trial, the internet-based telecooperation environment BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) was installed to manage the teleworking process for two severely physically disabled teleworkers. At present, BSCW is adjusted to their special needs based upon data gained by structured usability-interviews. As a result, complete accessibility of BSCW by keyboard will soon be available, since operating a mouse causes many problems for motorically-disabled, blind or visually impaired end-users.”
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» 1995 «
Pieper, Michael (1995): 'Calling the Blind' is 'Watched by the Deaf': Directions for Multimodal CSCW-Adaptations to Receptive Disabilities. In: Stephanidis, Constantine (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All October 30-31, 1995, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. p. 2. Available online
“Regarding access to Information Technology in general a lot of disability related enhancements of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) have already contributed to diminish or at best overcome restrictions resulting from certain impairments. However, most of these HCI-enhancements do not refer to the online telecommunications capabilities of computer systems, which should be designed to improve the social interaction of people with different communication disabilities. Thus, what is true for Information technology in general is wrong for special applications of Telematics systems. Access to Telematics systems for people with expressive and receptive disabilities is still restricted.”
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» 1994 «
Gappa, Henrike, Oppermann, Reinhard and Pieper, Michael (1994): Certifying Web Accessibility for the Handicapped by ISO 9241 Conformance Testing. In: Stephanidis, Constantine and Carbonell, Noelle (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All November 3-4, 1994, Obernai, France. p. 7. Available online
“Software-ergonomic evaluation is aimed at assessing a system's degree of usability. The criteria of the evaluation can be established in several ways, e.g., by a theory or standards. The European Union (EU) published the directive 90/270/EWG concerning the minimum safety and health requirements for VDT workers (EEC 1990) to establish common working conditions for users of visual display terminals. The national governments participating in the EU have transformed this directive into national law. The international standardisation activities of ISO 9241 concerning ergonomic requirements for visual display terminals form the basis which define the relevant technological requirements necessary to fulfil the directive. In this paper, an expert support method for evaluating user interfaces according to the ISO 9241 standard is presented and applied to a web tool's accessibility assessment for end-users with special needs.”
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» 1984 «
Pieper, Michael (1984): Methodological Problems of Human Factors Research in Long-Termed CBMS Field-Trials. In: Shackel, Brian (ed.) INTERACT 84 - 1st IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 4-7, 1984, London, UK. pp. 965-969.
“With special purpose to reveal changes of habitual communication to be caused by introducing Computer-Based-Message-Systems (CBMS), sociologists of GMD's 'Impact Research Group' evaluated a field-trial with the Computer Conferencing System KOMEX. KOMEX was developed by GMD's former 'Institute for Planning and Decision Support Systems'. The trial involved as pilot-users five subgroups working at different locations on different aspects of a common scientific project, founded by the 'German National Science Foundation (DFG)'. Evaluating changes of habitual communication induced by CBMS-technology required a quasi-experimental research-design. According to technical and non technical preconditions for communication within the field setting, different methodological approaches were used to control different aspects of user-behaviour before and after the introduction of KOMEX. All of these methods centered upon an approach to content-analyse all 356 messages distributed via KOMEX during the field-trial. The paper will discuss the practical problems arising from applying these methodologies with regard to the validity, reliability and representativity of generalized results. Finally, it shall be questionized whether the requirements of the quasi-experimental research design could be met, and in how far the methodological approaches have been appropriate to answer the analytical question outlined above.”
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