Areej Al-Wabil
Position: Research student
Email: A.Al-Wabil@soi.city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8994
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: A214 College building
Biography
Areej joined the Centre in October 2005. Her research interests include the design of accessible interactive systems for people with specific learning difficulties. Her PhD research, supervised by Panayiotis Zaphiris and Stephanie Wilson, examines web interaction of dyslexics with eye tracking.
She has an MSc in Computer Science (graphics and multimedia systems) and an MEM in Engineering Management (software and information systems management) from George Washington University in 2000. Following that, she worked as a research associate at the University of Texas in Houston for two years, then as a lecturer in the department of computer science at Prince Sultan University in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia until 2004.
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Key publications
Al-Wabil, A., Zaphiris, P., Wilson, S. (2007). Web Navigation for Individuals with Dyslexia: An Exploratory Study. In proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Beijing, China. C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Universal Access in HCI, Part I, HCII 2007, LNCS 4554, pp. 593–602.
Al-Wabil, A., Al-Khalifa, H., Al-Saleh, W. (2007). Arabic Text-To-Speech Synthesis: A Preliminary Evaluation. In proceedings of the 2007 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Vancouver, Canada. AACE, pp. 4423-4430.
Al-Wabil, A., Zaphiris, P., Wilson, S. (2006). Web Design for Dyslexics: Accessibility of Arabic Content. In proceedings of ICCHP, International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Linz, Austria. K. Miesenberger et al. (Eds.): ICCHP 2006, LNCS 4061, pp. 817 – 822.
Al-Wabil, A., Al-Khalifa, H. (2006). Assistive Technologies for People with Specific Learning Difficulties. In proceedings of ICLD, International Conference on Learning Disabilities. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [In Arabic]
Al-Khalifa, H., Al-Wabil, A. (2007). The Arabic Language and the Semantic Web: Challenges and Opportunities. International Symposium on Computers and the Arabic Language, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. November 2007.
Al-Wabil, A., Cox, M., Burgin, S. Moye, L., Morgenstern, L. (2003). Improving Efficiency of Stroke Research. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 56, pp. 351-357.
Al-Wabil, A., Michea, Y., Pancheri, K., Morgenstern, L. (2002). Artificial Neural Networks in Stroke Surveillance. In proceedings of AMIA, American Medical Informatics Association Symposium. San Antonio, Texas.
Al-Wabil, A., Cox, M., Burgin, S., Moye, L., Steffen, L., Kass-Hout, T., Morgenstern, L. (2000). Can a Computer or Abstractor Diagnose Stroke as well as a Stroke Neurologist? The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Study. In proceedings of the American Academy of Neurology Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.