PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Monday (14th October 2019) - Workshop Sessions

10:00 WORKSHOP W1A: Preparing

Accessible Math Documents using

MathJax v3

Organizer: Volker Sorge, University

of Birmigham, UK

Room: 153 Megh

WORSHOP W1B: Workshop on

Disability Equity & Physical Accessibility

Organizer: Subhash Vashishth, Svayam

Room: 152 Basant

Workshop W2C: Empowering Young Learners

with Congenital Blindness through Tactile

Graphics.

Part 1: From Objects to Drawings

Organizer: Bob Marek, Hungry Fingers

Room: 151 Bahar

13:15 Lunch Break

14:15 Workshop W2A: Accessible STEM

Diagrams

Organizer: Volker Sorge, University

of Birmigham, UK

Room: 153 Megh

Workshop W2B: Mobility and

Accessibility for People with Locomotor

Disabilities

Organizer: Nekram Upadhyay, ISIC

Room: 152 Basant

Workshop W2C: Empowering Young Learners

with Congenital Blindness through Tactile

Graphics.

Part 2: Developing Spatial Imagery through

Tactile Graphics and Coding Games

Organizer: Bob Marek, Hungry Fingers

Room: 151 Bahar

Tuesday (15th October 2019)

9:30

Session 1A: Inauguration & Keynote

Keynote: Assistive Technology: challenges and opportunities for India

Luc De Witte, University of Sheffield, UK

Room: 150 Kedar

10:45 Tea Break

11:15

Session 2A: Augmentative and Alternative

Communication

Room: 151 Bahar

Session 2B: New Horizons: Harnessing AI/ML driven

Intelligent Physical Systems for the AT Sector

Room: 152 Basant

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Invited Talks

1. Akila Vaidyanathan, Amaze Charitable Trust

2. Avaz Foundation

3. Arun Mehta, BAPSI. Technology for Persons with

Multiple Disabilities

4. Jeeja Ghosh. Implementing the rights based

approach in designing technology

Paper Presentations

5. Varun Sriram, et. al. Do-It-Yourself Head-controlled

Mouse : an Affordable Assistive Technology Solution

for People with Severe Motor Disabilities

Poster Pitches

6. Ankita Wadhawan et. al. Importance of Sign

Language Recognition in the Education of Hearing

Impaired Students

Invited Talks

1. Prateek Jain, Microsoft Research. Machine Learning on

Small Devices for AT Applications

2. Suresh Munuswamy, Public Health Foundation of India.

Using AI Tools for Accurate Disability Assessment

3. C. V. Jawahar, IIIT-H

4. Gerhard Weber, Technical University of Dresden.

Determine Accessibility from Needs and Preferences

Poster Pitches

5. Sanchit Aggarwal et. al. ViShruti: Seeing Through

Listening

13:15 Lunch Break

14:15 Session 3A: AT for Speech and Hearing Impairment

Room: 151 Bahar

Session 3B: Learning Tools & Education for the VI

Room: 152 Basant

Invited Talks

1. Vijayalakshmi, SSN College of Engg

2. Snigdha Sarkar, Anwesha Kolkata

3. ISLRTC

Poster Pitches

4. S.R.N. Reddy. A Novel Practical Approach for

Teaching Electronics for UG & PG Hearing Impaired

Students

5. Kavyashree Venkatesh et. al. - Dhwani: An Integrated

Hearing Aid Device to Provide Therapy

Invited Talks

1. Bonny Dave, Akshita Sachdeva, Trestle Labs. Kibo -

Inclusive Reading and Learning

Paper Presentations

2. Anil Prabhakar. Learning Languages with Assistance

3. Venkatesh Chari et. al. Impact of refreshable braille

displays on the education of students who are blind.

Poster Pitches

4. Aishwarya O et. al. Learning through Play: Designing a

Game-Based Curriculum to Teach Numeracy Skills

5. Hunny Bhagchandani et.al. Smart NotePad - One Stop

Device for Making Learning Accessible for the Blind

6. N. Rajagopal et. al. - HEXIS: Braille Book Reader for

visually impaired school children

7. Anubha Goel. Efforts to make IIT Kanpur Campus

Inclusive

8. Bharat Vaya et. al. Role of Modern Assistive Technology

in Inclusive Education for the VI

15:45 Tea Break

16:15

Session 4A Panel - Investors in the AT sector

Chair: Mamta Kohli, DFID

Panelists: Ravichandran Natarajan, Social Alpha; Manish Diwan, BIRAC; V. Ramanathan, Villgro;

Geetika Dayal, TiE Delhi-NCR

Moderator: PVM Rao, IIT-Delhi

Room: 150 Kedar

18:00 Accessible Puzzles and Games Zone

Hindi Movie with Audio Description

Wednesday (16th October 2019)

9:30 Session 5A: Keynote - Empowering for Inclusion, Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft

Room: 150 Kedar

10:45 Tea Break

11:15 Session 6A: AT for the Global South:

Opportunities and Challenges

Room: 151 Bahar

Session 6B: Spatial Accessibility for VI

Room: 152 Basant

Session 6C:

Design Challenge for Students:

Making Classrooms Inclusive

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Invited Talks

1. Anita Ghai, Ambedkar University.

Introduction to the disability studies

in the global south and perspectives

on Assistive Technology

Paper Presentations

2. Gesu India et. al. Music, Storytelling

and Play: Teaching Computation

Thinking to Blind or Low Vision

Children in India

Panel Discussion

3. Panelists:-

Jeeja Ghosh ; Meenakshi B., Equals

CPSJ; Nidhi Goyal, Rising Flame;

Prateek Madhav ATA

Paper Presentations

1. Aryan Saini et.al. CycloStroll: An

Immersive Exploration of

Neighborhood via Spatial Audio

2. Charudatta Jadhav et. al. Inclusive

Indoor Navigation

Invited Talks

3. Piyush Chanana, AssisTech

4. Vikas Upadhyay, AssisTech.

Encounter Challenges in Accessible

Digital Map for Indoor

Poster Pitches

5. Sidharth Anantha et. al. Seeing for

the Blind – A Cost-Effective Handsfree

Navigational Solution

12:45 Session 7A: Lemontree Initiatives in Employment of Differently Abled - Aradhana Lal, Lemon Tree

13:15 Lunch Break

14:15 Session 8A: Bridging the Gap: Taking AT

solutions from the Lab to the Field and

Bringing Field Experience to the Lab.

Room: 151 Bahar

Session 8B: Interventions for Learning

Disabilities

Room: 152 Basant

Session 8C: Assisting Employability

of Persons with Disabilities

Room: 153 Megh

Invited Talks

1. Charudatta Jadhav, TCS - Sugamya

Pustakalya from small audio book

libraries to a nationwide repository of

accessible books

2. Dipendra Manocha, Daisy

Consortium. Customizing AT solutions

for education (Screen readers, DAISY

players, in Indian Languages:

Partnering with Industry for

mainstream scale up

3. Nitin Sisodia, Sohum Innovation Lab.

Sohum: a novel deafness screening

device for low resource setting - the

journey from lab to community

4. Kuhu Das, Association for Women

with Disabilities. Lived in Experience

& Expectations of Women & Girls

with Disabilities

Invited Talks

1. Sanskruti Shah, Madras Dyslexia

Association. Educational

Interventions in Children with

Dyslexia

2. Arpita Bhattacharya, Pradip Centre

for Autism Management. The Unique

Learning Style on the Spectrum

3. Indrani Basu, Action for Autism.

Educational Interventions in Autism

Spectrum Conditions

Paper Submissions

4. Robin Tommy et. al. VHAB - The

Assistive Ecosystem for a SpecialNeed

Poster Pitches

5. Sajjad Ansari et. al. Improving the

Readability of Dyslexic Learners with

Mobile Game-based Sight-word

Training

Invited Talks

1. Darrel Templeton, MegaVoice.

The Number One Way to Bring

Empowerment

Paper Presentations

2. Eswariuma G et. al. CONVY -

The Assistive Interactor

3. Dhananjay Bhole. Workplace

accessibility for persons with

visual impairment challenges

and solutions

4. Moses Chowdari Gorrepati et.

al. Enable Vaani - rural social

network for persons with

disability

Poster Pitches

5. Naveen Kumar K et. al. EYE

(Educate Yourself Easily) Tool –

Independence through self

learning

15:45 Tea Break

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18:00

Session 9A - Innovation Eco-system in the AT sector

Speakers - Catherine Holloway, UCL. Social Alpha. Prateek Madhav, ATA Labs. Startup Pitches

Room: 150 Kedar

18:30 Banquet Dinner @ Choki Dhani (Return by 10:00 PM)

Thursday (17th October 2019)

9:30

Session 10A Keynote: The Balance between AI and Human Expertise in the Future of Technology

for People with Disabilities, Helen Petrie, York University, UK

Room: 150 Kedar

10:30 Session 11A Keynote: Hiroshi Kavamura, Daisy Forum

Room: 150 Kedar

11:15 Tea Break

11:45 Session 12A: Assistive Technology for Mobility:

Principles and Practices in India - P1

Room: 151 Bahar

Session 12B: Accessible Digital Content

Room: 152 Basant

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Invited Talks

1. Kuhu Das, Association for Women with Disabilities

Paper Presentations

2. Abhishek Mukhopadhyay et. al. Analyzing Eye

Gaze Fixation Patterns of Users with SSMI

Poster Pitches

3. Betic Lab IIT-B. SCKAFO - Automatic Locking and

Unlocking of Orthosis

Invited Talks

1. Md. Arifur Rahaman, Vashkar Bhattacharjee - Digital Content

Accessibility in Bangladesh

2. Avneesh Singh, Daisy Consortium

Paper Presentations

3. Charudatta Jadhav et. al. Multi-modal Password - Haptic

Solution

Poster Pitches

4. Eswariuma G et al. Smart Assistant

5. Dhananjay Bhole. Common web accessibility issues of

academic institutes and solutions way ahead

12:45 Closing Ceremony (Discussions & Vote of Thanks)

13:30 Parting Lunch

Technology Showcase

Full day exhibits by our exhibitors.

15th-17th October - Throughout the day

Exhibit Area near Reception