CSUN 2008 Conference
Los Angeles. 23rd Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Andy Minnion, Director of Rix Centre, and Simon Evans, Technical Director, participated at CSUN 2008, the 23rd Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities that took place in Los Angeles in March. Feedback from the delegates was extremely positive and the Rix Centre was able to forge promising links with US-based practitioners and academics who were introduced to multimedia advocacy for the first time.
The conference has been sponsored by the California State University Northridge Center on Disabilities, and is the leading International annual Conference on he theme of computers use by people with disabilities.
This year’s CSUN Conference featured over 4,530 researchers, educators, practitioners, 125 exhibitors and was attended by a wide variety of persons gathered together to share research data, best practices, and preview new products and applications. Attendees ranged from teachers of the disabled and consumers with disabilities to techies from IBM, Microsoft and Apple.
Minnion and Evans delivered a seminar entitled “Multimedia Advocacy for people with Intellectual disabilities”, in which they showed the activity of the Rix Centre, its software tools, sharing the “Best Practice” developed at the Rix Centre for a global audience.
The next Conference of CSUN will be held in March 16-21, 2009 at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott and Renaissance Montura Hotels.
