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SIGACCESS FY’07 Annual Report July 2006 - June 2007 Submitted by: Vicki L. Hanson, Chair SIGACCESS continues to grow in membership and expand its activities. The SIG boasts members from 18 countries worldwide. Also continuing the pattern of growth, the ASSETS’06 conference attracted even more attendees than the previous high set by the 2005 conference. SIGACCESS is also pleased to announce that the ACM has Publications Board has established a new journal, Transactions on Accessible Computing, which focuses on the interests of SIG members. ASSETS Conference Updates Typically, the highlight of our year is the ASSETS conference. ASSEST’06, held in Portland, Oregon, was no exception. It attracted a record number of attendees and paper submissions. The move to an annual conference appears to have been highly successful and we look forward to ASSETS’07 in Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15 – 17. Two ACM Best Paper Awards were presented at ASSETS’06: SIGACCESS Best Paper Award: Rick Kjeldsen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, “Improvements in vision-based pointer control” SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award: Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner, Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington, “MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video as constrained by mobile phone technology” For the third year, the conference featured an NSF sponsored Doctoral Consortium (see /sigaccess/newsletter/sept06.php). This consortium allowed advanced doctoral students to present their dissertation topics and receive feedback during formative stages of their work. Several students from the previous year’s Consortium returned to the conference and also participated in the event. The conference also launched the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) event for SIGACCESS. The SRC, sponsored by Microsoft Research, allows students from diverse ACM areas to present their work and get recognized for achievement. The three winners of the ASSETS SRC were Joshua M. Hailpern (University of Il