Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen

Abstract

"I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings." -- Thomas Jefferson, Reply to American Philosophical Society, 1808 In a fair society, all individuals would have equal opportunity to participate in, or benefit from, the use of computer resources regardless of race, sex, religion, age, disability, national origin or other such similar factors. -- ACM Code of Ethics Position Paper for National Science Foundation & European Commission meeting on human-computer interaction research agenda, June 1-4, 1999, Toulouse, France. To be published in book form. Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-99-17