Team

Portraitfoto: Mauro Avila — © barrierefrei.nrw

Dr. Mauro Antonio Avila Soto

Ansprechperson in allen Fragen und Anliegen rund um das Thema Barrierefreiheitstestungen digitaler Anwendungen im Kontext von Studium und Lehre

Kontakt

mauro.avila@tu-dortmund.de

Über Mauro Antonio Avila Soto

Studium
Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Bachelor)
Computernetze (Bachelor)
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (Master).

Promotion
Thema „Interaktive taktile Darstellungen zur Unterstützung der Zugänglichkeit von Dokumenten für Menschen mit Sehbehinderungen.“

2004 bis 2014
Freiberufliche Beratung zu Technologien für sehbehinderte Menschen

2010 bis 2011
Software-Entwickler an der Universität Autonoma de Barcelona

2014 bis 2018
Promotionsstudent –
Forschung auf dem Gebiet der unterstützenden Technologien für Menschen mit Sehbehinderungen an der Universität Stuttgart

2019 bis 2021
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) –
Forschung für Multimedia und multimodalen Technologien an der Technischen Universität Ilmenau

seit 2022
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Bereich Behinderung und Studium (DoBuS) –
Projekt „Kompetenzzentrum digitale Barrierefreiheit.nrw“

Publikationen

I know you are looking to me: Enabling eye-gaze communication between small children and parents with visual impairments. Mauro Avila Soto and Najmeh Barzegar. In 12th Augmented Human International Conference, pages 1–4, 2021.

Look, a guidance drone! assessing the social acceptability of companion drones for blind travelers in public spaces. Mauro Avila Soto and Markus Funk. In Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM, 2018.

Self-identifying tactile overlays. Mauro Avila Soto, Alexandra Voit, Ahmed Shereen Hassan, Albrecht Schmidt, and Tonja Machul a. In Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM, 2018.

Tactile sheets: using engraved paper overlays to facilitate access to a digital document's layout and logical structure. Mauro Avila Soto, Tonja Machul a, Ismael Rodriguez, Francisco Kiss, and Albrecht Schmidt. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.ACM, 2018.

Skim-reading strategies in sighted and visual y-impaired individuals: A comparative study. Tonja Machul a, Mauro Avila Soto, Pawel Wozniak, and Dil on Montag. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. ACM, 2018.

Using shape-changing interfaces to foster inclusive education for visual y impaired people. Hyunyoung Kim, Mauro Avila, Thomas Kosch, Celine Coutrix, and Anne Roudaut. In Inclusive Educational Technologies: Emerging Opportunities for People with Visual Impairments. Workshop at SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI18, 2018.

Dronenavigator: Using leashed and free-floating quadcopters to navigate visual y impaired travelers. Mauro Avila Soto, Markus Funk, Matthias Hoppe, Robin Boldt, Katrin Wolf, and Niels Henze. In Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pages 300-304. ACM, 2017.

Tan-math: A tangible math application to support children with visual impairments to learn basic arithmetics. Mauro Avila Soto, Elba Valderrama-Bahamondez, and Albrecht Schmidt. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, pages 244-245. ACM, 2017.

A survey of outdoor travel for visual y impaired people who live in latin-american region. Mauro Avila and Limin Zeng. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, pages 9-12.ACM, 2017.

Involving visual y impaired subjects to generate navigation aid prototypes. Mauro Avila Soto. In Method Stories -A workshop on sharing methods for involving people with Impairments in design. Workshop at SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI16, 2016.

Remote assistance for blind users in daily life: A survey about be my eyes. Mauro Avila, Katrin Wolf, Anke Brock, and Niels Henze. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. ACM, 2016.

Assistive wearable technology for visual y impaired. Mauro Avila and Thomas Kubitza. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, pages 940-943. ACM, 2015.

Dronenavigator: Using drones for navigating visual y impaired persons. Mauro Avila, Markus Funk, and Niels Henze. In Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, pages 327-328. ACM, 2015.

Boosting the software product lines with aspects of usability. Mauro Avila Soto, Leonardo Fields Melo, and Clifton Cluine Beaufond. Revista Universitaria RUTIC, 1(2), 2013.