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Science, Research and Engineering Contributions

Based on the topic and nature of your paper you have two different publication options:

Please be aware of their topical focus and, due to their publication policies, their different formats, deadlines and target audience. The review process by the Scientific Committee of the conference is the same.    

Springer Science, Research and Engineering Proceedings 

The conference invites interested participants to publish original science, research and engineering work related to Assistive Technology, eAccessibility and eInclusion  in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings. LNCS aims at scientific excellence and selects papers in a two steps peer-review process (acceptance rate ~60%). Volumes published in the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services:

  • ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science
  • EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases)
  • ACM Digital Library
  • DBLP
  • Google Scholar
  • IO-Port
  • MathSciNet
  • Scopus 
  • Zentralblatt MATH

Registration to the conference by at least one author per paper is mandatory!

For two or more papers by the same author, an additional paper fee applies.

Key Info:

Step one: Well-detailed extended abstracts of original, unpublished work

  • 3 – 5 pages
    • DIN A4,
    • Font: Times New Roman,
    • Font size: 12pt,
    • Single space lines,
    • Single colums,
    • Margin: 2cm (top/bottom/left/right margin)
    • Your extended abstract might include already figures and the most important references to be ready for a fair review (as long as you stay within the page limit)
  • Upload: Via the Conference Management System
  • Deadline: February 6, 2022
  • Reviewed by 3 experts - as there is no blind review planned, you can hand in your abstract anonymised, but there is no obligation to do so.
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 6, 2022

Step two: Camera Ready version of accepted papers

  • 6 - 8 pages in camera ready LNCS format (including pictures and references)
  • Additional pages (up to a max of 12 pages per paper) may be purchased – additional fees apply!
  • Springer Guidelines
  • Springer Copyright-form (In case you do NOT use the form provided in our link here, use the following information:
    Editors: Miesenberger, K.; Kouroupetroglu, G.; Mavrou, K.; Manduchi, R.; Covarrubias Rodriguez, M.; Penaz, P.
    Title: Computers Helping People with Special Needs)
  • Contact form: simple txt-file with contact information (working eMail) of the corresponding author
  • Upload: Via the Conference Management System
  • Deadline: April 3, 2022

Step three: Presentation at the conference (timeslots of approximately 20 minutes including discussion

Open Access (OA) Policy:

  • Springer offers the option of making your publication open access. Please follow this link.
  • Authors must indicate their intention to publish Open Access during upload – for each camera-ready paper.
  • The open access fee will be directly invoiced by Springer and/or its associates once the digital OA publication is ready.

Open Access Compendium “Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion”

The conference invites interested participants to publish their work in the digital edition of the Open Access Compendium “Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion”.

In the open access compendium you can publish original basic and applied scientific R&D papers from diverse fields. The compendium aims to provide from an interdisciplinary and cross-sector perspective a good overview of  advancements into the user-, practice- and service-driven domains of AT, Accessibility and Inclusion (please refer to the list of topics at the end of the Call). Progress and success are based on the interaction with, contribution by and participation of all stakeholder groups (e.g. users, end user organizations, service providers, policy, administration, industry, NGOs). Every voice counts in the exchange on the impact of R&D on practice and in domains in need of creative and innovative R&D and co-operation.

Exchange and co-operation between practice and R&D is a key asset for technical and social innovation. We invite interested authors coming from diverse domains and disciplines to submit extended abstracts of research work, but also more practice oriented concept papers, models, reports, and position papers on topics related to our field. The compendium will also include contributions from the Forum part of the programme (see below). These contributions will support a creative and innovative program facilitating cross-sector and cross-stakeholder interaction and dissemination. 

Registration to the conference by at least one author per contribution is mandatory!

For two or more papers by the same author, an additional paper fee applies.

Key info:

Step one: Abstracts of original, unpublished work

  • 1 – 3 pages. Exceeding pages will not be reviewed / taken into account.
    • DIN A4,
    • Font: Times New Roman,
    • Font size: 12pt,
    • Single space lines,
    • Single colums,
    • Margin: 2cm (top/bottom/left/right margin)
    • Your extended abstract might include already figures and the most important references to be ready for a fair review (as long as you stay within the page limit)
      As there is no blind review planned, you can hand in your abstract anonymised, but there is no obligation to do so.
  • Upload: Via the Conference Management System
  • Deadline: March 3, 2022
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 23, 2022

Step two: Final version and publication in the digital edition of our conference open access compendium “Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion”

  • Deadline camera ready version: May 1, 2022
  • Later in the process, we will send you a copyright form and ask you for sending it back to us duly signed.

Step three: Presentation at the conference (timeslots of approximately 20 minutes including discussion)

Review Criteria

PLEASE NOTE: All contributions will be reviewed against the following criteria:

  1. Relevance to the conference
  2. Scientific Quality
  3. Originality / Novelty / Innovation
  4. User Involvement and User Centered Approach
  5. State of the Art
  6. Readability and Organisation of the Paper