[misc.handicap] **** WORKSHOP ANOUNCEMENT *****

broot@latour.bellcore.com (Bob Root) (06/09/90)

Index Number: 8741

	*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***

Topic:	"Designing More Accessible Communications Services:
	 Human Factors Issues and Answers"

When:	JUNE 22, 1990

Where:	Bellcore (Bell Communications Research)  Building 3
	331 Newman Springs Rd.
	Red Bank, NJ  07701

PROGRAM:  The focus of the workshop will be the communication needs of
those with functional impariments and the role of new technologies in
meeting (or failing to meet) those needs.  The agenda will include an
overview of the scope of the need, a review of the equipment and
services currently available, the current legal and regulatory
environment, presentations on projects currently under development, and
a roundtable on the major accessibilty issues for user interface
designers in the 1990's.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

  Bob Schumacher	(201) 758-2406		nvuxr!roo

  Bonnie Rusinek	(201) 271-6336

  Robert Root		(201) 829-4526		broot@thumper.bellcore.com

Sponsored by: the Communications Technical Group and 
the Special Interest Group on Medical systems and the Functionally Impaired
of the Human Factors Society.