LEAD-ME Winter Training School Barcelona 2020
Media Accessibility: Communication for all
23-27 November 2020
The online LEAD-ME Winter Training School 2020 was held online via Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain. The training school for young researchers aimed to boost their competences and to expand their networks, giving them further chances to share ideas creating new tools in providing accessible contents in media.
It included many regular activities in research and training plus a few different sessions unique to the new online format. Guest speakers were invited to present past and present European research projects, along with 6 lectures and 3 key speakers, plus 2 interactive workshops to be followed by the LEAD-ME Summer Training School Warsaw 2021. In addition to the guest speakers, attendees were also invited to present their predoctoral research.
List of presentations
LEAD ME Winter Training School Barcelona 2020: Playlist
Projects
- CALING - Juan Pedro Rica
- Content4ALL - Giacomo Inches
- MAP - Anna Matamala
- WAI TOOLS & SONAAR - Carlos Duarte
- IMAC - Chris Hughes
- EASIT - Anna Matamala
- IMPACT - Armony Altinier
- LTA - Rocio Barnabé
- REBUILD - Maria Jimenez
- TRACTION - Mikel Zorrilla
- DiCultYouth - Miroslav Vujicic
- SO CLOSE - Oriol Lopez
- Erasmus+ Projects on Media Accessibility: ADLABPRO, ACT and ISLA - Pablo Romero Fresco
- EASYTV - Pilar Orero
- MEDIAVERSE - Symeon Papadopoulos
Key Speakers
- Chris Patnoe - Immersive Caption Workgroup
- Jan Luis Kruger - Using eye tracking in media accessibility research
- Elisa Peregro-New forms of accessibility: making the most of cross-fertilization between EU projects
Lectures
- Lecture 1 - What can we do better in media accessibility research? - Agnieszka Swarskova
- Lecture 2 - Training in Media Accessibility: vocational vs academic - Juan Pedro Rica
- Lecture 3 - User Organisations - Klaus Hoeckner
- Lecture 4 - Personalisation - Andy Quested
- Lecture 5 - Industry - Fran Iglesias
- Lecture 6 - Legislation - Alejandro Moledo
Workshops
- Workshop 1: Research on accessibility in immersive environments: subtitling – Chris Hughes
- Workshop 2: Eye Tracking Analysis Pipeline for Research on Text and Visualisation - Krzysztof Krejtz
PHDs
- Construction of access in a digital society: technology and language diversity in theatre captioning - Alina Secara
- Tourism- Caslav Kalinic
- Challenges in Opera AD Research - Irene Hermosa Ramírez
- The Challenges of Multilingual Dubbing - Irene Menéndez
- SONAAR - Letícia Seixas Pereira
- The translation of Audio Description Scripts from Spanish to Chinese A Reception Study - Liu YuChen
- XR Accessibility: A step forward in 360 video - Mar Brescia Zapata
- Game accessibility for Blind and Low vision Players, RAD - Maria Eugenia Larreina
- Linguistic accessibility in the subtitling of video games for deaf and hard of hearing gamers - Oscar Frades
- A Cold Reading Chatbot for Accessible PGD Relief - Peter Tracey
- Social Media in University Studies - Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė