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13th AAATE Conference
Budapest, Hungary
10 – 13 September 2015
Why Budapest?
• Budapest, a metropolis in the heart of Europe
• Conditions available for organisation of a world
congress (hotel, room capacity)
• Schengen, easy entry
• Easy access
– by plane - Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport
• flights from 64 destinations, Sólyom Hungarian Airways
– by train from >30 cities of Europe
• (EuroCity, EuroNight)
Budapest highlights
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Hungarian Parliament
St Stephen’s Basilica
Buda Castle
Dohány Street Synagogue
Margaret Island
Andrássy Avenue
Heroes’ Square
Danube Promenade
Citadel
City Park – Széchenyi Bath
Why in 10-13 September?
• AAATE conference usually organised early autumn
• The weather in Hungary in September is usually
sunny and warm. Temperatures are usually in the
range between 20 and 25 °C during the day
Great Elders from the Information
Technology to Special Education in Hungary
Slogen of the conference:
Attracting new areas and building bridges
• Engineers, researchers and users with disabilities
• Attracting new areas of this discipline
o experts working on the field of special teaching and therapy
training
• Attracting new generations:
o doctoral Consortium,
o young researchers,
o a section for BSc – BA and MSc – MA students
• Attract participants from the surrounding countries,
from the East side of the former iron curtain
• Working together and developing a shared and not
divided world, a more user friendly, usable IT world
Scientific program
Sessions
1. Technology for Motor Limitations
2. Information Support to Mobility
3. Technology and aspects of Visual
Limitations
4. Aspects of Hearing Limitations
5. Ambient Assisted Living
6. Aging Aspects
7. Stroke Aspects
8. Technology for Sensory and Cognitive
Limitations
9. Aspects of Alternative and
Augmentative Communication
10. Healthcare and Rehabilitations
11. Users and Technology
12. Design for All
13. Education and Training
14. Entertainment in Rehabilitation
15. Economic Aspects and
Standardisation
16. HCI and User Needs
17. Accessible Environments
18. Assistive Robotics
19. Computer Access
20. Smart Devices
Scientific program
Provisonal Programme – 10-13 September 2015
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
08.00 Registration
09.00 Opening of the conference
and keynote lecture
(plenary) 350 persons
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 1
(5 breakout rooms)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Session 2
(5 breakout rooms)
15.00 Tea break
15.30 Session 3
(5 breakout rooms)
17.00 Closing day 1
17.30 Welcome Cocktail
18.00 Additional Events SIGs,
Board meeting etc.
08.30 Registration
09.00 Plenary session with invited
speakers 350 persons
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 4
(5 breakout rooms)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Session 5
(5 breakout rooms)
15.00 Tea break
15.30 Session 6
(5 breakout rooms)
17.00 Closing day 2
17.00 Additional events:
AAATE Assembly etc.
20.00 Social Event and Banquet
08.30 Registration
09.00 Plenary session with invited
speakers 350 persons
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 7
(5 breakout rooms)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Closing of conference
14 00 Additional events
(upon request)
The conference programme will be
made available to delegates through
a programme book and daily
programme notifications will be
made available on the conference
floor
Organizers
The organisation of the AAATE 2015 is planned to
be done by the members of three Institutes:
• University of Pannonia
• John von Neumann Computer Society,
• Supporting Organiser:
– BLISS Foundation
University of Pannonia
• The University of Pannonia is the major focal point of research and
education in Pannonia, the western part of Hungary.
• The Faculty of Information Technology is one of the five faculties of the
University.
• The Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems is one
of the four Departments of the Faculty.
• Virtual Environment and Imaging Technologies Research Laboratory
• http://en.uni-pannon.hu/index.php/en/
Virtual Environment and
Imaging Technologies
Research Laboratory
• Colorymetry and lighting technologies
• Multimedia and virtual reality applications for the
education of children with special education needs and for
rehabilitation of adult persons
• The Laboratory has more than 15 years’ experience in
teaching „User intarface design”
• Since 2005 UP is the Hungarian National Contact Centre for
EDeAN, in 2009 secretairat manager of EDeAN
• 5 conferences organised in the last 12 years
About John von Neumann
Computer Society (NJSZT)
John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT) is an NGO devoted to a knowledge
based information society, the leading domestic professional organisation of the
science and application of information technology.
As a professional forum independent of any institutions, the Society plays a
crucial social role in:
• the domestic promotion of computer literacy, achieving digital equality;
• protection and promotion of the professional-cultural heritage and the values
of the profession;
• promotion of computer culture and the newest professional and scientific
information, and
• talent development.
http://njszt.hu/en
The past of the future
Exhibition on ICT History
Further information:
http://www.pastofthefuture.com
Organizers
Organising Committee
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The Organising Committee is responsible for the overall arrangements of the conference
Dr. Cecília Sik Lányi, associate professor (chair)
Dr. Rozália Pigler-Lakner, dean
Dr. Ágnes Werner-Stark, head of department
Dr. Ferenc Szabó, assistant professor
Péter Csuti, engineer of information technologies
Dolli Drozdik, proejct assistant
Scientific Advisory Board
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AAATE board members will act as the scientific advisory board of the conference
Professional Congress
Organiser (PCO)
• Diamond Congress Ltd.
o Since 1994 in the Hungarian meeting industry
o Well trained, multi-lingual team
o Steadily growing PCO
• Diamond Professional Congress System
o Online registration handling (payments, invoices)
o Online abstract handling (submission, review process)
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Venue selection
Printing / mailing
Exhibition managements
Registration arrangement
Financial management
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Hotel services
Social programs
Transportation
On-site services
Selection of References for Diamond Congress Ltd.
• 2001: World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (380 participants)
• 2005: 36th International Symposium on Essential Oils (167 participants)
• 2010: FISITA World Automotive Congress (790 participants); 20th General
Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (1491 participants)
• 2009: ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (1250 participants); 11th Scientific
Assembly of IAGA (794 participants)
• 2011: 36th International Symposium on HPLC (1330 participants); 8th
European Biophysics Congress (830 participants)
• 2012: 3rd International Regulatory Workshop on A to Z on Bioequivalence
Bioanalysis, Dissolution and Biosimilarity 2012 (273 participants)
• 2013: 32nd Congress of the International Society of Limnology (480 person)
• 2013: 44th International Symposium of Essential Oils, Budapest (in progress)
• For further references (more than 250 meetings) please visit:
www.diamond-congress.hu
Congress Venue
• Budapest Congress Center with Novotel Hotel City
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17 climatized meeting rooms
Capacity from 10 to 2000 people
Excellent technical equipment and trained staff
Poster area
Exhibition space ~ 4 000 m2
WiFi
Budapest Congress Center – Floor plan
1 Pátria: 2000
2a+2b Bartók 300,
3 Lehár: 120,
7a+7b Liszt 120 persons
Accessibility
• The congress centre is fully accessible with
wheel chairs
• The congress centre is easy to use for visually
impaired people (braille signs in the elevators,
personal assistance by hostesses in each
conference floor)
• In the connecting Novotel Hotel City****
accessible rooms are available
• Interpreting to sign language
Accomodations offered by the congress
• Venue Hotel – Novotel Budapest City 4****
– Single room
89 € +VAT and city tax
– Double room
100 € +VAT and city tax
– Guaranteed room prices by the venue hotel for 2015!
Accomodation in Budapest
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Hotels
Rooms
Beds
5*****
4****
3***
2**
1*
pensions, hostels
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5 156
5 637
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10 272
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Provisional congress fees
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Early full registration fee for members
Early full registration fee for nonmembers
Early speakers' registration fee for members
Early student registration fee for members
Early student registration fee for non-members
490 EUR
560 EUR
490 EUR
350 EUR
400 EUR
Social Program
• Concert in the St. Stephen’s Basilica
• included in the registration fee
(sponsored by the
Hungarian Convention Bureau)
Congress Dinner
Evening excursion to the Puszta
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Hungarian folklore performance and horse show in
authentic surrounding
Dinner will be served at an original Csárda
“Puszta Ötös” coach and five, obstacle driving of
coach and four, several field events of horse-herds:
laying, seating of horses, cracking a whip,
competition of horse-herds etc.
After the show a typical Hungarian dinner will be
served.
City tours: city of history
From Roman times…
Aquincum, Roman settlement
Buda Castle
Monument of
the Revolution in 1956
…to the fall of communism
Memorial Park of
Communist Statues
City of cultural world heritage
Heroes Square
Fishermen’s Bastion
Danube panorama
Cultural centre
National Opera
Synagogue of Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts
Palace of Arts
City of baths and spas
See you in Budapest
13th AAATE Conference, 10-13 September 2015