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The 8th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces for All" was held in Vienna, Austria, on 28-29 June 2004, building upon the results of the seven previous workshops held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 30-31 October 1995; Prague, Czech Republic, 7-8 Nov- ber 1996; Obernai, France, 3-4 November 1997; Stockholm, Sweden, 19-21 October 1998; Dagstuhl, Germany, 28 November - 1 December 1999; Florence, Italy, 25-26 October 2000; and Paris (Chantilly), France, 24-25 October 2002. The concept of "User Interfaces for All" targets a proactive realization of the "- signforall"principleinthe?eldofhuman-computerinteraction(HCI),andinvolvesthe developmentof user interfaces to interactiveapplicationsand e-services, which provide universalaccess andusabilityto potentiallyall users. In thetraditionofits predecessors, the 8th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces for All" aimed to consolidate recent work and to stimulate further discussion on the state of the art in "User Interfaces for All" and its increasing range of applications in the upcoming Information Society. The emphasis of the 2004 event was on "User-Centered Interaction Paradigms for Universal Access in the Information Society. " The requirement for user-centered u- versal access stems from the growing impact of the fusion of the emerging techno- gies and from the different dimensions of diversity that are intrinsic to the Information Society. These dimensions become evident when considering the broad range of user characteristics, the changing nature of human activities, the variety of contexts of use, the increasing availability and diversi?cation of information, knowledge sources and e-services, the proliferation of technological platforms, etc.
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O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christian Stary ist Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik Communications Engineering sowie des Kompetenzzentrum Wissensmanagement an der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Linz. Er ist ausgebildeter Informatiker der TU Wien und war mehrere Jahre in der Privatwirtschaft tätig. Er promovierte 1988 und habilitierte sich 1993 an der TU Wien auf dem Gebiet des Usability Engineering. Darüber hinaus war er an unterschiedlichen Universitäten in den Vereinigten Staaten, Deutschland und Österreich als Assistant bzw. Associate Professor oder Gastprofessor tätig, ehe er 1995 an die Universität Linz berufen wurde. Im Rahmen der Forschung betreut er die Schwerpunkte Advanced Distributed Learning, Organisational Learning und Adaptive Systems.
