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There have been 2 "Conferences on Universal Usability":

• CUU 2000, November 16-17, 2000, Arlington, VA, USA
• CUU 2003, November 10-11, 2003, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Links to items from the CUU 2003 proceedings are now available on the CUU 2003 program page.

Links go to the ACM Digital Library. You will have to log in to get to the PDF files. My SIGCHI membership gave me access, but if you have a general membership in the ACM DL, you should probably be able to get to them as well. Also, you can buy 1 item at a time if you wish.

The 2nd Conference on Universal Usability begins tomorrow in Vancouver.

The 2nd ACM Conference on Universal Usability is seeking Doctoral Consortium applicants, and extended abstracts on late breaking research in Universal Usability. The conference will be held in downtown Vancouver, Canada from November 10 –11, 2003. See http://sigchi.org/cuu2003/ for conference details. Special rates for early conference registration are available until October 13, 2003.

The CUU 2003 Doctoral Consortium provides an ideal opportunity for doctoral students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. The Consortium will be held on Sunday November 9, 2004. Ten (10) students will be invited to attend and discuss each student's work in turn. Student participants will have a poster of their work exhibited at the main conference. Students will receive complimentary conference registration, and reimbursement of travel, accommodation and food. The deadline for submission is Monday September 22, 2003, 5:00 p.m. (1700) Pacific Standard Time.

The Second Conference on Universal Usability is seeking extended abstracts on late breaking research in Universal Usability. We are particularly looking for papers from the social science, economics, communications and sociology community in order to build bridges between researchers in these disciplines and interface designers.

The CUU 2003 Program lists the papers accepted for presentation. Some of them are:

• Applying heuristics to perform a rigorous accessibility inspection in a commercial context
  
• Community Portals through Communitization
  
• Design Studies for a Financial Management System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural India
  
• Involving Young Girls in Product Concept Design
  
• Toward Achieving Universal Usability For Older Adults Through Multimodal Feedback
  
• Countering Design Exclusion Through Inclusive Design
  

Conference registration details for CUU 2003 are now online. Save $100 and register before October 13th.

Corporate sponsors are being solicited for CUU 2003.

The 2nd Conference on Universal Usability will be in November in Vancouver, Canada. The Call for participation lists May 12 as the deadline for submissions.

Many parts of the CUU 2000 proceedings are online. You can get PDFs of papers (from the ACM Digital Library) and some PowerPoint files. You can also buy a paper copy of the proceedings.

The first Conference on Universal Usability was a great success! The students compiled a report on the conference.