Please find below the list of submitted Special Thematic Sessions (STS). All STS accept “oral only” presentations and “oral presentations with paper”.

During the submission of your paper you will have the possibility to select the STS of your choice.

Of course, you can also submit papers that are not related with a STS.

• Robots for Children
  Chairs: Lorenzo Desideri and Pedro Encarnação
• Assistive Technology and Children’s Rights
  Chairs: Pedro Encarnação, Albert Cook and Angharad Beckett
• Advanced Technologies for Inclusion and Participation in Education and Labour
  Chairs: Christian Bühler, Susanne Dirks and Bastian Pelka
• The Assistive Potential of Digital Consumer Technology
  Chairs: Bryan Boyle, Sabine Lobnig, David Banes and Fiachra O’Brolcháin
• Privacy-aware and acceptable video-based assistive technologies
  Chairs: Francisco Florez-Revuelta, Sara Colantonio and Martin Kampel
• Global AT Service Delivery Challenges
  Chairs: Evert-Jan Hoogerwerf and Luc de Witte
• Assistive Technology and Inclusive Early Childhood Education
  Chairs: Katerina Mavrou, Lorenzo Desideri and Silvio Pagliara
• Digital Inclusion and Competence Development
  Chairs: Katerina Mavrou, Evert Jan Hoogerwerf and Silvio Pagliara
• Assistive Technology in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
  Chairs: Tone Øderud and Arne H. Eide
• Measuring accessibility for Higher Education Institutions
  Chairs: Gottfried Zimmermann, Nadine Auer and Verena Kersken
• Assistive solutions for person-centred integrated care
  Chair: Evert Jan Hoogerwerf
• Cognitive Disabilities and Accessibility
  Chairs: Susanne Dirks, Christian Bühler, Tomas Murillo-Moralez and Klaus Miesenberger
• Assistive Technology for neurological development
  Chairs: Renáta Cserjési and Cecilia Sik Lanyi
• Building Policies and Initiatives for inclusive educational contexts and Assistive Technology
  Chairs: Silvio Pagliara and Katerina Mavrou
• Assistive technologies for older adults: a multidimensional perspective
  Chairs: Maribel Pino et Anne-Sophie Rigaud
• Universal Design in Education (UDE) across the Entire lifecycle
  Chairs: Gerald Craddock, Donal Fitzpatrick, Katerina Mavrou, Jesús Hernández Galán and Silvio Pagliara
• The advancement of AT and AAC for children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  Chairs: Evert-Jan Hoogerwerf, Maurice Grinberg and Nora Shabani (to be confirmed)
• Technologies to enhance mobility, accessibility and participation
  Chairs: François Routhier and Krista Best