Roland Wagner Award
on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
The Austrian Computer Society decided in September 2001 to endow this award in honour of Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner.
Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner is the founder of ICCHP. He is the founder and Head of Institute of the Austrian wide Institute "Integrated Studying" offering services for disabled students at Austrian universities. He is the founder of the working group "ICT for/with People with Disabilities" of the Austrian Computer Society, the group which established the ICCHP conference as an outstanding international event.
Prof. Wagner is one of the pioneers in ICT for people with disabilities in Austria and has been pushing the field forward since years. His early visionary understanding of the role of ICT to change perspectives of people with special needs and his dedication for fighting for equal rights for the target group has important impacts on the awareness and the beginning changes in society. This award should give incentives and should support the important work which has been the passion of Prof. Wagner over the last decades.
Winners
Award 0 was handed over to Prof. Roland Wagner on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 2002
Award 1: WAI-W3C, 2002
Special Award 2003: Prof. A Min Tjoa, one of the founders of ICCHP on the occasion of his 50th birthday
Award 2: Paul Blenkhorn (University of Manchester, UK), 2004, for his achievements in the field of speech and sight rehabilitation engineering need for people with disabilities
Award 3: Lawrence Scadden (National Science Foundation, USA), 2006
Special Award 2006: Prof. Roland Traunmüller, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Institute Integriert Studieren (Linz University)
Award 4: George Kerscher (DAISY Consortium, USA), 2008
Nomination Commitee
- Arthur Karshmer, Florida State University at Tampa, USA
- Andras Arato, KFKI Budapest, Hungary
- Roland Vollmer, Universität Kalrsruhe (TH), Germany
- Wolfgang Zagler, Technical University Vienna, Austria
- Klaus Miesenberger, University of Linz, Austria
Materials required for a nomination
- A letter of nomination describing the outstanding work in the field of ICT for people with disabilities and giving reasons why the award should be given.
- An extended CV of the person nominated and/or description of the organisation
- References to projects, products, publications, ....
All materials have to be submitted or described in detail in English.
Who/What can be nominated
- Individuals
- Organisations (associations, consortia, companies, ...)
- Projects
- Services
- Products
Deadline for nomination
Spring of 2010
