Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than
40 countries from all over the world to this year's ICCHP. Since the late 1980s it has been
ICCHP's mission to support and reflect development in the field of Assistive Technologies
eAccessibility and eInclusion. With a focus on scientific quality ICCHP has become an
important reference in our field. The 2010 conference and this collection of papers once again
fulfilled this mission. The International Programme Committee comprising 106 experts from all
over the world selected 147 full and 44 short papers out of 328 abstracts submitted to ICCHP.
This acceptance ratio of about half of the submissions demonstrates our strict pursuit of
scientific quality both of the programme and in particular of the proceedings in your hands. An
impressive number of experts agreed to organize Special Thematic Sessions (STS) for ICCHP 2010.
These STS help to bring the meeting into sharper focus in several key areas. In turn this
deeper level of focus helps to collate a state of the art and mainstream technical social
cultural and political developments.
