421 About the Contributors Georgios Kouroupetroglou holds a B.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in Communications and Signal Processing. He is member of the Academic Staff, Division of Communication and Signal Processing, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (www.di.uoa.gr), University of Athens (www.uoa. gr) and leader of the Speech and Accessibility Laboratory (http://speech.di.uoa.gr) and the e-Accessi- bility Unit for Students with Disabilities (http://access.uoa.gr). His current research interests focuses on the area of Computer Accessibility and Voice User Interfaces, as a part of the major domain of Human- Computer Interaction, with emphasis in: Accessible Computing, Spoken Dialogue Human Computer Interaction, Usability, VoiceWeb, Voice Agents, Voice Processing; Analysis and Synthesis of Speech and Singing, Computer Mediated Interpersonal Communication, Information Systems/Services and Assistive Technologies for Disabled and Elderly People, Music Computing; Singing Voice Analysis, Virtual Musical Istruments, and Byzantine Chanting Analysis and Synthesis, Gesture-based User Inter- faces, and Information Technologies for Interactive Learning. Kouroupetroglou has actively partici- pated in a number of European Union funded and National research projects. He has been reviewer/ evaluator and member of working groups/technical panels of various European Union’s projects/pro- grams. He is author of more than 105 scientific papers in journals/conference proceedings and numerous technical reports in the fields of his interest. * * * Ilia Adami holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.B.A in Information Management from California State University, San Bernardino in 2000. From 2000-2007 she was employed at Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI-Cali- fornia), initially as a web developer and then as a web analyst and a usability and accessibility specialist. From 2007 she is member of Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, participating in a number of European and National projects. Her main responsibilities include collecting, analyzing, and defining user and techni- cal requirements for various applications, as well as conducting usability and accessibility evaluations. About the Contributors Yurena Esteban Alonso obtained her BA of Psychology from the University of La Laguna, BA in Criminology from the University of Valencia. Master health and social care to dependence. Degree Screening, Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Degree in Child-Centered Intervention dependents, and other. She has worked in various public sector institutions. In recent years the Master has coordinated health and social care to dependence. Currently working on the development of the first edition of the Master in Educational Intervention in children with neurode- velopmental disorders (0-6years). She has teaching experience in matters relating to child developmental disorders, both in face mode as online mode. She is co-author of several books, chapters, articles and conference papers, result of their collaboration as a research technician in the ACCESS Research Unit of the Department of Psychology and Education at the University of Valencia. Margherita Antona is member of the HCI Laboratory of ICS-FORTH since 1993. Since 2004, she is Coordinator of the Centre for Universal Access and Assistive Technologies, and since 2009 Coordinator of the Smart Classroom activity of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Programme. Her research interests include adaptive and intelligent interfaces, computer-supported user interface design, design for all and assistive technologies, eLearning and Smart Environments. Dr Antona has participated in more than 20 European and national R&D projects, and has coauthored more than 90 scientific publications. She is Co-Chair of the UAHCI 2013 Conference and member of the Editorial Board of the Springer UAIS Journal. She is member of Program Committee in various international conferences and workshops. From 1989 to 1992 she was researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of CNR in Pisa. Iyad Abu Doush is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yarmouk Uni- versity, Jordan. Abu Doush has received his BSc. in Computer Science from Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2001, and his M.S. from Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2003 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University, USA, 2009. Since then, he has been a professor of computer science, Yarmouk University, Jordan. He has published more than 35 articles in international journals and conferences. He is a reviewer and committee member of several international conferences and journals in the accessibility domain. His research interests include web accessibility, intelligent interfaces, multi-modal interfaces, computational intelligence, human computer interaction. John Gilligan has been a lecturer and Course Chair in the School of Computing of the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Republic of Ireland, since 1988. He has served as external examiner to a number of academic institutions in Ireland. He was instrumental in introducing courses on Disability, Inclusion, ICT, Web Accessibility, Universal Design and Assistive Technology into Computing undergraduate and postgraduate programs in DIT. His doctoral thesis was on the application of the International Classifica- tion of Functioning to modelling assistive technology systems. His research interests include: Universal Design, Assistive Technology, International Classification of Functioning, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods and Computational Mathematics. He has contributed to a number of national and international research projects on Inclusion through Technology and has served on the Scientific Committee of the 2003 AAATE conference. 422 About the Contributors Javier Coret Gorgonio holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Master in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Cisco Certified Network- ing Associate official certification. Technical Researcher in Experimental Data Processing. After work in various private companies realized Technician research to Life-Long Learning Centre, Polytechnic University of Valencia. At this stage focused its work on e-learning training and realized technical and financial management of training projects. In the last stage research in the Access Unit, University of Valencia and collaborate in a multidisciplinary research team focused on Web accessibility for people with disabilities and designed, built and currently manages a Usability Laboratory. Consequently this researcher team collaborates in writing a Book about existing web accessibility solutions for people with physical and sensory disabilities and published various papers in Internationals Congresses during 2011-2013. Wendy Keay-Bright, is Reader in Inclusive Design at Cardiff School of Art. Her doctoral thesis described ways in which she included autistic children in designing software that revealed their creativity and ability to play collaboratively. The project, ReacTickles, reached world wide audiences with most recent version, ReacTickles Magic available as a free App and download from the project website: www. reactickles.org.Wendy has led knowledge transfer activities internationally, including China, India and, most recently Australia for the charity SCOPE. Wendy is a Director of design and social innovation com- pany, Cariad Interactive, with software artists with Joel Gethin-Lewis, Pete Hellicar and Marek Bereza. The goal of Cariad is to involve people with disabilities in digital making and to visualise alternatives to “one size fits all” technology solutions. This team were awarded “Best Innovation in Inclusive De- sign” at Include 2011 for their work with young people with autism and dance therapists, leading to the successful Somantics software which is also free to download from the AppStore and project website: www.somantics.org. Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos is a computer music researcher, lecturer in Sonic Arts in Cardiff School of Art and Design CSAD and a musician. He has studied physics (Bachelor’s Degree), signal processing (Master’s Degree), classical music (Degree in classical guitar) and computer music (Master’s Degree, PhD) in Greece (University of Ioannina, University of Athens, Conservatory of Athens) and in France (ACROE, IRCAM). He holds a European Jointly Supervised Ph.D. (Cotutelle) in Art Sciences and Technologies at ACROE-ICA (Computer Arts Laboratory), Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France co-directed with the Speech Group, Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research and musical interests are situated at the intersection of art, science and technology. He has published articles in Organised Sound, Computer Music Journal and in international conferences such as International Computer Music Conference, Sound and Music Com- puting, Digital Audio Effects, Audio Engineering Society and others. He has also participated in music ensembles, he is part of Cardiff Gamelan Ensemble and has composed acoustic and electronic music. 423 About the Contributors Kavita Krishnaswamy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical En- gineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore