Responding to accessibility issues in business

A PhD thesis in progress by Chris M. Law at the School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

The aim of this research is to investigate how people in business respond to issues concerning the accessibility of their goods and/or services.

This project began in Q2, 2006 and is expected to run until Q3, 2009. This page is being used to provide details about the papers and presentations as they are published. Upon completion of the project, this page will be used to provide a summary of the research findings, and to link to the online version of the thesis.

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Chris M.Law

Publications and presentations:

Law, C.M., Jaeger, P. & McKay, E. (accepted) User Centered Design in Universal Design Resources? Invited publication for Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer.

Law, C.M. & Varley, A. (2009) Sources of inconsistency in the application of inclusive solutions. Include 2009 (Inclusive design into innovation: transforming practice in design, research and business), Royal College of Art, London, 5-8 April, 2009.

Law, C.M. (2008) The evolution of Accessibility Program Offices in organizations. Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference, AEI 2008, Las Vegas, NV, 14-17 July, 2008.

Law, C.M. & McKay, E. (2007) Taking account of the needs of software developers / programmers in universal access evaluations. HCI International, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007.

Law, C.M. (2006) Decision-making and accessibility. OZeWAI 2006, The Australian Web Adaptability Intiative, Web adaptability conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 29-December 1, 2006.

Law, C.M. (2006) The technology in your cell phone wasn't invented for you. Communications Policy & Research Forum, Sydney, Australia, September 25-26, 2006.

Supervisors:

Dr. Supriya Singh
Dr. Elspeth McKay

Links:

Chris M. Law homepage
School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University