Outcomes
Government Consultation Exercise for Digital Britain - The network formed a response to this consultation exercise. [Copy of our Consultation Response - PDF 100 KB]. Two representatives from the Network also attended the Consultation meeting in London in Dec 2008.
Literature Review - A literature review, entitled An Exploratory Literature Review in support of an Inclusive Digital Economy (MS Word, 982 KB), summarises the discussions that occurred at a series of workshops organised by the network. You can also download the references (MS Word, 325 KB) for this review.
Reports
The following reports provide an overview of the various related activities that those involved in the project took part in.
- Digital Inclusion: a review of international policy and practice (MS Word, 1.53 MB) (Dr Melanie Heeley and Prof Leela Damodaran, Loughborough University)
- Focus Groups: Mobile phone use by older people in the UK and Malaysia (MS Word, 24KB) (Dr Alistair Edwards, University of York)
- Focus Groups: A software system to attract older people living in residential care settings (MS Word, 36KB) (Dr Anna Dickinson and Mr Michael Heron, University of Dundee)
- Inclusive Digital Economy Network Grant (MS Word, 26KB) (Darren Lunn, University of Manchester)
- Inclusive Digital Economy Network sponsored event: The First International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems (MS Word, 28 KB) (Dr Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester)
- Let's get Personal: Personalisation and Dementia conference report (MS Word, 64 KB) (Annabella Padilla-Lamb, MSc Design Ethnography student, University of Dundee)
- New technology and quality of life for older people: the health and transport dimensions (MS Word, 32 KB) (Prof John Nelson, Dr. Paulus T Aditjandra and Kate Pangbourne, University of Aberdeen)
- Personal Reflections & Future Work (1) (MS Word, 32 KB) (Dr Petros Iosifidis, City University London)
- Personal Reflections & Future Work (2) (MS Word, 28 KB) (Dr Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University)
- The Role of Participation in the Inclusive Digital Economy (MS Word, 162 KB) (Prof Leela Damodaran and colleagues, various institutions)
- Tutorial on Web Accessibility - "Practical Accessibility: A Web Accessibility Primer" (MS Word, 52 KB) (Dr Yeliz Yelisada, University of Manchester)
- Workshop on developing a research proposal on "Do-it-yourself Interfaces" (MS Word, 24 KB) (Dr Alistair Edwards, University of York)
Conference/Journal Publications
Please visit the respective websites provided to download/order copies of these papers.
- Alani, O. and Mehmood, R. (2008) Multi-component Teleservice Model for Multimedia Applications. Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2008). Cardiff, UK, September 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press. DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/NGMAST.2008.95
- Alani, O. and Mehmood, R. (2009) Multi-Component Multimedia Resource Optimisation for 3G and Beyond. International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.4-10. Inderscience Publishers, 2009. DOI Bookmark: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJIPT.2009.024165
- Bouamrane, M-M., Luz, S. and Masoodian, M. (2008) The First International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems. 1 September 2008, Liverpool, U.K. https://www.cs.tcd.ie/ontoract08/ Proceedings available on the ACM and the IEEE Xplore 2.0 websites. Details of a follow-up workshop are available from: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/odis09
- Iosifidis, P. (2009) Expert Advice for the Digitial Tsar, The Guardian newspaper, 3 July, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/jul/03/martha-lane-fox-digital-inclusion?FORM=ZZNR4www.
- Lunn, D., Harper, S. and Bechhofer (2009) Combining SADIe and AxsJAX to Improve the Accessibility of Web Content. In W4A '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), pp. 75 - 78, New York, NY, USA, April 2009. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1535654.1535672
- Pangbourne, K., Aditjandra, P.T. and Nelson, J.D. (2009) New technology and quality of life for older people: the health and transport dimensions. Paper for 16th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services. September 2009. Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.itsworldcongress.com/
- Yesilada, Y. and Harper, S. (2009) Practical Accessibility: A Web Accessibility Primer. Tutorial presented at The 9th International Conference on Web Engineering. June 2009. San Sebastian, Spain. http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/community/icwe2009.php