Tutorial 2 - ICEDEG 2025

 

Title: Towards Human-Centered Smart Health Systems - Analysis and Evaluation of Digital Platforms with WCAG

Importance of this topic for the ICEDEG community:

This tutorial will allow attendants to understand the importance of designing user-centered smart healthcare systems, explore Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and their impact on digital health platforms, and conduct accessibility audits and usability testing on healthcare platforms.

Detailed Outline:

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Section

Tools

Estimated Time

1

Importance of designing user-centered smart healthcare systems.
  • Instructor 1

09:00 – 09:30

2

Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • Instructor 2

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 – 10:30

3

Hands-on in accessibility audits and usability testing
  • Instructors and online demonstration
  • Participants

10:30 – 11:45

3

Final discussion and exchange of participants' opinions
  • Open discussion moderated by instructors

11:45 – 12:00

Tutorial Instructors

 

Prof. Sandra Sanchez-Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Applications of Informatics from the University of Alicante, Spain, and a Master in Software Engineering from Drexel University, USA. Sandra is a researcher and professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer Sciences of the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador since 1994. Sandra´s main research interests include Digital Governance, Human-Computer Interaction, Accessibility for eCitizens and user with disaiblities, MOOCs. Sandra has been Ecuador’s Representative to Hispanic America Software Testing Qualifications Board. 

 

Prof. Patricia Acosta-Vargas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Alicante. She currently serves as the Director of the Master’s Program in User Experience at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and the Executive Master in UX at the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. She leads the Intelligent & Interactive Systems (Si2Lab) research group at UDLA. She was a member of Ecuador’s first Artificial Intelligence Committee, selected by the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society. She serves as Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society Ecuador Chapter. In 2024, IEEE-Ecuador recognized her as a "Distinguished Researcher."  

 

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Lisbon, Portugal

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