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LEAD-ME Winter Training School 2020 Programme

Media Accessibility: Communication for all

23 to 26 November 2020, ONLINE

Delivered by UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) in partnership with Cost CA19142 LEAD-ME partners.

Monday 23rd November

On the first day of the training school the theoretical and methodological background upon which experimental research is based, the various research options to choose from, the design experimental set up, and then some concrete examples will be presented through ongoing research and training EU funded projects.

Time (CET)
09:00Welcome - Pilar Orero
Presentation of training school students
09:45TRACTION - Mikel Zorrilla
10:00WAI-TOOLS - Carlos Duarte
SONAAR - Carlos Duarte
10:30BREAK
11:00MAP - Anna Matamala
11:15MEDIAVERSE - Symeon Papadopoulos
11:30IMAC - Chris Huges
11:45EASYTV - Pilar Orero
12:00REBUILD - María Jiménez
12:15Zero TOURISM - Miroslav Vujicic
12:30SO-CLOSE - Oriol López
12:45CONTENT4ALL - Giacomo Inches
13:00BREAK
14:00ERASMUS+ PAST PROJETS: ILSA, ADLAB, ADLAB PRO, ACT - Pablo Romero Fresco
14:15EASIT - Anna Matamala
14:30CALING - Juan Pedro Rica
14:45LTA - Rocío Bernabe
15:00IMPACT - Armony Altinier
Q&A

Tuesday 24th November

Three key speakers covering research, training and industry will give an overview of the main trends on media accessibility. Six short presentations will complement the three key speakers.

Time (CET)
09:00Pilar Orero - wrap up from day 1 and presentation of day 2
09:15Key speaker: Elisa Perego
The new forms of accessibility training: making the most of cross-fertilization between EU projects, Q&A
10:00Key speaker: Jan Louis Kruger
Using eye tracking in media accessibility research: word-level data on subtitle reading. Q&A
10:45BREAK
11:15Lecture 1. Agnieszka Szarkowska - Research - What can we do better in media accessibility research? Q&A
11:45Lecture 2. Juan Pedro Rica - Training in Media Accessibility: vocational vs academic. Q&A
12:15Lecture 3. Klaus Höckner - User organisations. Q&A
12:45Key speaker: Chris Patnoe (Google) Q&A
13:30BREAK
14:30Lecture 4. Personalisation - Andy Quested, Q&A
15:00Lecture 5. Industry - Fran Iglesias, Fura dels Baus, Q&A
15:30Lecture 6. Legislation - Alejandro Moledo, Q&A

Wednesday 25th November

Workshop 1

Topic: Generating stimuli in the form of 360º media and subtitles, and also the first steps towards coding.

Instructor: Chris Hughes (Salford University)

Time (CET)
09:30Welcome - Pilar welcomes to workshops
09:30Workshop 1 - Part 1: Introduction to 360 video and accessibility
11:00Break
11:30Workshop 1 - Part 2: Rapid prototyping for testing new Ideas
13:00Lunch
14:00Pilar Orero - presentations (Group 1)

Thursday 26 November

Workshop 2

Topic: Eye Tracking Analyses Pipeline for Research on Multimedia - Introduction

Instructor: Krzysztof Krejtz (Eye Tracking Research Center, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

Time (CET)
09:30Pilar Orero - Presentations (Group 2)
11:30Break
12:00Workshop 2 - Part 1
13:30Break
14:00Workshop 2 - Part 2
15:30Break
16:00Funding across Europe
Pilar Orero - presentation of EUROPE calls -
ERASMUS+ ERC MC H2020 EUROPE MEDIA STSM and ITC LEAD ME
17:00Krzys Krejts - Presentation of the Summer LEAD ME School June 2021
Goodbye - Pilar