From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 3 11:54:00 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 11:54:00 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] Join us Thursday to hear Lowell Reade speak on "Produce approaches to accessibility"! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder that this starts in <10 min. Cole On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:58 AM Cole Gleason wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Lowell Reade is a Senior UX Researcher at Duolingo (and MHCI alumni!). He > will be joining us this week to speak at Accessibility Lunch. His talk is > titled: > "Product approaches to accessibility - stories from Chase, Facebook, and > Duolingo". As usual, the talk will be in NSH 1109 at noon on Thursday! > > We are excited to have Lowell present and hope you can attend. Feel free > to invite anyone else who might be interested. If you are interested in > speaking, we currently have 12/5 and 12/12 open, or we can put you on the > schedule for next semester! > > Cole Gleason > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Wed Oct 9 18:52:11 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 18:52:11 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] =?utf-8?q?Tomorrow_at_noon=3A_Sujeath_Parredy=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CX-Ray=3A_Screenshot_Accessibility_via_Embedded_?= =?utf-8?b?TWV0YWRhdGHigJ0=?= Message-ID: Hi all, Join us tomorrow in NSH 1109 at 12pm to hear Sujeath speak about his X-Ray project. ?X-Ray: Screenshot Accessibility via Embedded Metadata?. Unfortunately, Anhong and I will not be available to speak tomorrow (we will try to reschedule!), so after Sujeath?s talk we will have some free time to enjoy lunch together and informally discuss accessibility interests of the group. See you tomorrow! Cole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 10 12:00:15 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:00:15 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] =?utf-8?q?Tomorrow_at_noon=3A_Sujeath_Parredy=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CX-Ray=3A_Screenshot_Accessibility_via_Embedded_?= =?utf-8?b?TWV0YWRhdGHigJ0=?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder that this is now! On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 6:52 PM Cole Gleason wrote: > Hi all, > > Join us tomorrow in NSH 1109 at 12pm to hear Sujeath speak about his X-Ray > project. ?X-Ray: Screenshot Accessibility via Embedded Metadata?. > Unfortunately, Anhong and I will not be available to speak tomorrow (we > will try to reschedule!), so after Sujeath?s talk we will have some free > time to enjoy lunch together and informally discuss accessibility interests > of the group. > > See you tomorrow! > Cole > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 17 10:05:32 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:05:32 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] Talk cancelled today Message-ID: Hi all, Due to illness, our speaker for today won?t be able to attend, so I?m cancelling the accessibility lunch today. Reminder: next week is the HCII 25th anniversary, so we will not have a lunch then either. We will reconvene on Thursday, October 31st (Halloween). Spooky! Cole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baraka.kim at gmail.com Mon Oct 21 13:50:34 2019 From: baraka.kim at gmail.com (Kim Baraka) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:50:34 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] Fwd: Special Issue on Robots and Autism In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Hi all, Below is the call for papers for a special issue I am co-organizing on robots and autism. I would appreciate if you can spread the word to potentially interested parties! Best, Kim ------------------ Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics ( https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pjbr), entitled "Robots and Autism: Conceptualization, Technology, and Methodology". (Deadline: February 29, 2020; no fees for submissions received before 2020.) Link to the official CfP: https://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s20814836_CFP_Robots_and_Autism.pdf . *Call for Papers:* Increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) emphasizes the need for impactful research into more advanced and effective technology and strategies used for intervention, assessment, and training. Social robots are one technological domain that has been suggested as potentially effective for individuals with ASD, due to robots? repeatable and controllable social behavior, as well as their ability to engage individuals with ASD. Although existing research has demonstrated promising results in this domain, many challenges remain to be addressed. From a design perspective, a better understanding of suitable robot characteristics, scenarios, and tasks for intervention and assessment is needed. From a technological perspective, more algorithmic advances in modeling, sensing, decision-making, and adaptation over interactive scenarios may unlock more powerful and flexible solutions. From an empirical perspective, more evidence is required to evaluate deployment, efficacy, and usability of these technologies in different settings and by different users (caregivers, teachers, clinicians). Finally, ethical and philosophical considerations when designing and adopting such technologies are also notable areas of research needing further examination. This thematic special issue in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics aims at gathering the latest research addressing some of the above challenges. It was launched as a follow-up to a web panel discussion ( https://bit.ly/2N568Hr) on the current state of socially assistive robotics in ASD, held on June 27 and organized by Chartacloud | Robotteca. We welcome high-quality submissions from authors, regardless of their affiliation(s) and relationship to the panel. Full paper submissions may include: original research, focused review papers, and opinion papers. In addition to full papers, we will also consider submissions of brief research reports in the form of a communication/note. Contributions to the Special Issue may address (but are not limited) to the following aspects: - intervention (clinical, school, and home settings) - assessment, diagnosis, and monitoring - clinician support and training - robot embodiment and behavior design - algorithms for intelligent robot behavior, including AI and machine learning for modeling, perception, and planning of social behavior - autonomy and shared control - programming interfaces for robot behavior (expert and non-expert) - ethical and philosophical issues - evaluation studies (hypothesis-driven, exploratory, and long-term) - novel applications of robots in the ASD domain Authors are requested to submit their full research papers, complying with the general scope of the journal. The submitted papers will undergo the standard peer-review process before they can be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process. *Guest editors:* Kim Baraka (lead GE), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA / Instituto Superior T?cnico, Lisbon, Portugal Rebecca Beights, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA / Irabina, Melbourne, Australia Marta Couto, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal Mike Radice (advisory editor), ChartaCloud | ROBOTTECA, Kensington, USA *How to submit:* Before submission authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors: www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s20814836_Instructions_for_Authors.pdf Manuscripts can be written in TeX, LaTeX (strongly recommended) - the journal?s LATEX template. Please note that we do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. Text files can be also submitted as standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) which is acceptable if the submission in LATEX is not possible. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. All submissions to the Special Issue must be made electronically via online submission system Editorial Manager: www.editorialmanager.com/paladyn/ All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review process (single blind, at least two independent reviewers). When entering your submission via online submission system please choose the option ?SI on Robots and Autism: Conceptualization, Technology, and Methodology?. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before and it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2020, but individual papers will be reviewed and published online as they arrive. Contributors to the Special Issue will benefit from: - indexation in SCOPUS - NO submission and publication FEES in 2019* - fair and constructive peer review provided by experts in the field - no space constraints - convenient, web-based paper submission and tracking system ? Editorial Manager - quick online publication upon completing the publishing process (continuous publication model) - better visibility due to Open Access - long-term preservation of the content (articles archived in Portico) - extensive post-publication promotion for selected papers *There are no publication or processing fees for papers submitted till the end of December 2019. Starting 2020, the journal will be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC) (only for accepted manuscripts ? there still will be no submission fees). Nevertheless, the journal will be able to offer high discounts and also the possibility to apply for a waiver, particularly for authors who do not have funds for publication in an open access model. We are looking forward to your submission !!! In case of any questions please contact Dr. Justyna ?uk (Managing Editor of Paladyn.JBR; Justyna.Zuk at degruyter.com). Best regards, *Kim Baraka, *PhD candidate Robotics Institute, *Carnegie Mellon University* (Pittsburgh, USA) Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS), *INESC-ID / Instituto Superior T?**cnico* (Lisboa, Portugal) kimbaraka.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apavel at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 24 11:26:35 2019 From: apavel at cs.cmu.edu (Amy Pavel) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:26:35 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] No accessibility lunch today (cancelled for HCII celebration!) Message-ID: <535ddc10593a4730a8b4e57ae745148b@cs.cmu.edu> Hi everyone! A quick reminder - we're not having the accessibility lunch today. Lunch is cancelled today due to the 25th anniversary celebration for HCII. We will resume accessibility lunch next week on 10/31! Also, ASSETS is next week so we'll look forward to seeing some of you all there. You can also check out the program here: https://assets19.sigaccess.org/ Amy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apavel at cs.cmu.edu Tue Oct 29 12:11:18 2019 From: apavel at cs.cmu.edu (Amy Pavel) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:11:18 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] Accessibility group lunch and a related talk this Thursday 10/31 Message-ID: Hello everyone! We're lucky to have two talks this Thursday! For accessibility group lunch from 12-1pm in NSH 1109, Abdullah Ali will talk about distributed interaction design. Earlier in the morning from 10-11am in Gates 7501, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti will speak about supporting learning and mobility of people with visual impairments. Please see the brief descriptions below for more information. Feel free to respond with any questions and forward to others who might be interested. Hope to see you all there! Amy ----------- Talk descriptions - Time and Location: 10/31, 12-1pm, NSH 1109, lunch provided Title: Distributed Interaction Design Speaker: Abdullah Ali Abstract: Abdullah?s work is focused on formulating methods and building systems that leverage input from crowds of end-users to design technological innovations. His work answers the following questions: How can we include more diverse end users in the process of designing new technologies? How can we handle subjective design input on a large scale? How can we evaluate interaction designs with diverse end users on a large scale efficiently? His research in the Human-Computer Interaction field sits at the intersection of Design, Human Computation, Machine Learning and Accessibility. Time and Location: 10/31, 10-11am, GHC (Gates) 7501 Title: Supporting learning and mobility for people with visual impairments Speakers: Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti Abstract: Mobile devices originally raised a number of accessibility challenges for visually impaired people. Nowadays, most of these challenges have been addressed and mobile devices are convenient platforms to run assistive technologies that support visually impaired people to access both information and the real world. In this talk we present our activity aimed at creating mobile assistive technologies to support education and mobility. The research, conducted in the last 10 years, spans various disciplines, including mobile data management, HCI, computer vision, and image sonification. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apavel at cs.cmu.edu Thu Oct 31 09:37:15 2019 From: apavel at cs.cmu.edu (Amy Pavel) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:37:15 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] Fw: Accessibility group lunch and a related talk this Thursday 10/31 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder, this is today. The first talk by Dragan and Sergio is at 10-11a in GHC 7501 and the second by Abdullah is from 12-1p (with lunch) in NSH 1109. See you soon! ________________________________ From: Accessibility-lunch on behalf of Amy Pavel Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:11 PM To: accessibility-lunch at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: [Access Lunch] Accessibility group lunch and a related talk this Thursday 10/31 Hello everyone! We're lucky to have two talks this Thursday! For accessibility group lunch from 12-1pm in NSH 1109, Abdullah Ali will talk about distributed interaction design. Earlier in the morning from 10-11am in Gates 7501, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti will speak about supporting learning and mobility of people with visual impairments. Please see the brief descriptions below for more information. Feel free to respond with any questions and forward to others who might be interested. Hope to see you all there! Amy ----------- Talk descriptions - Time and Location: 10/31, 12-1pm, NSH 1109, lunch provided Title: Distributed Interaction Design Speaker: Abdullah Ali Abstract: Abdullah?s work is focused on formulating methods and building systems that leverage input from crowds of end-users to design technological innovations. His work answers the following questions: How can we include more diverse end users in the process of designing new technologies? How can we handle subjective design input on a large scale? How can we evaluate interaction designs with diverse end users on a large scale efficiently? His research in the Human-Computer Interaction field sits at the intersection of Design, Human Computation, Machine Learning and Accessibility. Time and Location: 10/31, 10-11am, GHC (Gates) 7501 Title: Supporting learning and mobility for people with visual impairments Speakers: Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti Abstract: Mobile devices originally raised a number of accessibility challenges for visually impaired people. Nowadays, most of these challenges have been addressed and mobile devices are convenient platforms to run assistive technologies that support visually impaired people to access both information and the real world. In this talk we present our activity aimed at creating mobile assistive technologies to support education and mobility. The research, conducted in the last 10 years, spans various disciplines, including mobile data management, HCI, computer vision, and image sonification. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Amy ------------------------------- Speaker: Sooyeon Lee (Ph.D. candidate) http://www.personal.psu.edu/~sul131/ Title: Effective and Pleasant Interactive Dialog System for People with Visual Impairments People with visual impairments need guidance to perform tasks and activities due to their limited vision. Especially grocery shopping is considered as a very challenging task. This is because it comprises several subtasks: navigation, object recognition, identification, and object acquisition, each of which requires different types of guidance with different kinds of information presentation and delivery. This complexity in the need of assistance makes shopping independently difficult. My research centers on the design of grocery shopping aids, particularly on the assistive interface that could deliver the information needed accordingly and create an interaction that could help facilitate independent shopping experiences. My research approach has two parts - ethnographic field studies to understand the people and the shopping practice and experimental studies to investigate and evaluate the smart camera prosthetic interventions. In this talk, I will present insightful findings from the ethnographic based research regarding the exhaustive shopping practices, collaborative shopping practices with a sighted helper, and an emerging practices of remoted sighted assistant. I then discuss prosthetics interventions for assistive guidance with five types of feedback signaling, multimodal feedback comprising speech and haptic vibration, and conversational assistance with haptic vibration support. Finally, I will discuss my future research directions guided by the insightful findings of the previous research. 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We argue that teachable machines can empower accessibility research. By explicitly providing a few pertinent training examples, we can enable individuals with disabilities to attune machine learning systems to their idiosyncratic characteristics and environment. We demonstrate this concept with a concrete example: teachable object recognizers trained by and for blind users. Further, we discuss open challenges in designing and building teachable machines: perception of machine training by non-experts and inaccessibility of the labeling process. [image: image.png] About the speaker: Hernisa Kacorri is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and holds an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2016 from The Graduate Center at City University of New York, and has conducted research at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, IBM Research-Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on data-driven technologies that address human challenges, faced due to health or disability, with an emphasis on rigorous, user-based experimental methodologies to assess impact. Hernisa is a recipient of a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences, an ACM ASSETS best paper finalist and a best paper award, and a CHI honorable mention. She has been recognized by the Rising Stars in EECS program of CMU/MIT. Her work is supported by NSF and NIDILRR. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We argue that > teachable machines can empower accessibility research. By explicitly > providing a few pertinent training examples, we can enable individuals with > disabilities to attune machine learning systems to their idiosyncratic > characteristics and environment. We demonstrate this concept with a > concrete example: teachable object recognizers trained by and for blind > users. Further, we discuss open challenges in designing and building > teachable machines: perception of machine training by non-experts and > inaccessibility of the labeling process. > > [image: image.png] > > About the speaker: Hernisa Kacorri is an Assistant Professor in the > College of Information Studies and holds an affiliate appointment in the > Computer Science and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at University of > Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2016 > from The Graduate Center at City University of New York, and has conducted > research at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, IBM > Research-Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Carnegie Mellon > University. Her research focuses on data-driven technologies that address > human challenges, faced due to health or disability, with an emphasis on > rigorous, user-based experimental methodologies to assess impact. Hernisa > is a recipient of a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences, an > ACM ASSETS best paper finalist and a best paper award, and a CHI honorable > mention. She has been recognized by the Rising Stars in EECS program of > CMU/MIT. Her work is supported by NSF and NIDILRR. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:57 AM Cole Gleason wrote: > Hi all, > > Tomorrow's access lunch talk will feature HCII's very own Fanglin Chen and > Michael Xieyang Liu! > > Title: "Providing In-conversation Access to Personal Content" > When: Thursday 11/211 at 12:00pm > Where: NSH 1109 > > See you there! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Tue Dec 3 12:19:25 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 12:19:25 -0500 Subject: [Access Lunch] Thursday! Greg Weinstein speaks on inclusive design in a corporation! Message-ID: Hi all! We will have our final accessibility lunch of the semester this Thursday in NSH 1109! *Looking for speakers! *We are looking for people to present at accessibility lunch in Spring 2020. Please contact me with suggestions for speakers to invite! Speaker: Greg Weinstein Title: Can Inclusive Design and Research Happen in a Corporation? Time: 12/05 12:00 pm (noon) Location: NSH 1109 Abstract: Most of us can agree that accessibility is socially valuable. But creating an inclusive experience or design can be especially challenging in a corporate environment where many different factions compete for attention on their own creations. In this context, "accessibility" is far too often seen as an unprofitable niche?as well as a source of "bad" design?and is therefore neglected in the product design process. In this talk, I will reflect on the research I conducted at Uber into the mobility and transportation experiences of people who are blind or visually impaired. In this research I encountered a number of obstacles in the form of institutional procedures, legal strictures, and general corporate culture. It became evident that an environment like Uber's cannot easily or quickly accommodate inclusive research and design, but there are still paths to accessibility through the tangle of corporate branches. Bio: Greg Weinstein is a design research and strategist, as well as an acoustic anthropologist. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago and, in his first career, he conducted research on classical music recording studios in the United Kingdom. He now works as a user research consultant in industry, with specialties in accessibility and sound. See you there! Cole Gleason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kbaraka at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Dec 3 13:44:12 2019 From: kbaraka at andrew.cmu.edu (Kim Baraka CMU) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 13:44:12 -0500 Subject: [Access Lunch] Fwd: [journals] Special Issue on Robots and Autism In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: ***** Apologies for cross-posting and multiple postings ***** Dear colleagues, I have contacted you a few months ago regarding our special issue on Robots and Autism (call for papers below). I just want to draw to your attention that *submissions received in 2019 and accepted will be published free of charge*. However, *starting 2020, the journal will be subject to an Article Processing Charge* (APC) (only for accepted manuscripts ? there still will be no submission fees). The deadline for submission to the special issue is February 29, 2020. If you have any questions, please let me know. Link to the official CfP: https://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s20814836_CFP_Robots_and_Autism.pdf . *Call for Papers:* Increasing prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) emphasizes the need for impactful research into more advanced and effective technology and strategies used for intervention, assessment, and training. Social robots are one technological domain that has been suggested as potentially effective for individuals with ASD, due to robots? repeatable and controllable social behavior, as well as their ability to engage individuals with ASD. Although existing research has demonstrated promising results in this domain, many challenges remain to be addressed. From a design perspective, a better understanding of suitable robot characteristics, scenarios, and tasks for intervention and assessment is needed. From a technological perspective, more algorithmic advances in modeling, sensing, decision-making, and adaptation over interactive scenarios may unlock more powerful and flexible solutions. From an empirical perspective, more evidence is required to evaluate deployment, efficacy, and usability of these technologies in different settings and by different users (caregivers, teachers, clinicians). Finally, ethical and philosophical considerations when designing and adopting such technologies are also notable areas of research needing further examination. This thematic special issue in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics aims at gathering the latest research addressing some of the above challenges. It was launched as a follow-up to a web panel discussion ( https://bit.ly/2N568Hr) on the current state of socially assistive robotics in ASD, held on June 27 and organized by Chartacloud | Robotteca. We welcome high-quality submissions from authors, regardless of their affiliation(s) and relationship to the panel. Full paper submissions may include: original research, focused review papers, and opinion papers. In addition to full papers, we will also consider submissions of brief research reports in the form of a communication/note. Contributions to the Special Issue may address (but are not limited) to the following aspects: - intervention (clinical, school, and home settings) - assessment, diagnosis, and monitoring - clinician support and training - robot embodiment and behavior design - algorithms for intelligent robot behavior, including AI and machine learning for modeling, perception, and planning of social behavior - autonomy and shared control - programming interfaces for robot behavior (expert and non-expert) - ethical and philosophical issues - evaluation studies (hypothesis-driven, exploratory, and long-term) - novel applications of robots in the ASD domain Authors are requested to submit their full research papers, complying with the general scope of the journal. The submitted papers will undergo the standard peer-review process before they can be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process. *Guest editors:* Kim Baraka (lead GE), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA / Instituto Superior T?cnico, Lisbon, Portugal Rebecca Beights, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA / Irabina, Melbourne, Australia Marta Couto, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal Mike Radice (advisory editor), ChartaCloud | ROBOTTECA, Kensington, USA *How to submit:* Before submission authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors: www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s20814836_Instructions_for_Authors.pdf Manuscripts can be written in TeX, LaTeX (strongly recommended) - the journal?s LATEX template. Please note that we do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. Text files can be also submitted as standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) which is acceptable if the submission in LATEX is not possible. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. All submissions to the Special Issue must be made electronically via online submission system Editorial Manager: www.editorialmanager.com/paladyn/. All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review process (single blind, at least two independent reviewers). When entering your submission via online submission system please choose the option ?SI on Robots and Autism: Conceptualization, Technology, and Methodology?. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before and it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2020, but individual papers will be reviewed and published online as they arrive. Contributors to the Special Issue will benefit from: - indexation in SCOPUS - NO submission and publication FEES in 2019* - fair and constructive peer review provided by experts in the field - no space constraints - convenient, web-based paper submission and tracking system ? Editorial Manager - quick online publication upon completing the publishing process (continuous publication model) - better visibility due to Open Access - long-term preservation of the content (articles archived in Portico) - extensive post-publication promotion for selected papers *There are no publication or processing fees for papers submitted till the end of December 2019. Starting 2020, the journal will be subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC) (only for accepted manuscripts ? there still will be no submission fees). Nevertheless, the journal will be able to offer high discounts and also the possibility to apply for a waiver, particularly for authors who do not have funds for publication in an open access model. We are looking forward to your submission !!! In case of any questions please contact Dr. Justyna ?uk (Managing Editor of Paladyn.JBR; Justyna.Zuk at degruyter.com). Best regards, *Kim Baraka, *PhD candidate Robotics Institute, *Carnegie Mellon University* (Pittsburgh, USA) Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS), *INESC-ID / Instituto Superior T?**cnico* (Lisboa, Portugal) kimbaraka.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Thu Dec 5 11:57:30 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:57:30 -0500 Subject: [Access Lunch] Thursday! Greg Weinstein speaks on inclusive design in a corporation! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Reminder, this is happening now! On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Cole Gleason wrote: > Hi all! > > We will have our final accessibility lunch of the semester this Thursday > in NSH 1109! > > *Looking for speakers! *We are looking for people to present at > accessibility lunch in Spring 2020. Please contact me with suggestions for > speakers to invite! > > Speaker: Greg Weinstein > Title: Can Inclusive Design and Research Happen in a Corporation? > Time: 12/05 12:00 pm (noon) > Location: NSH 1109 > > Abstract: Most of us can agree that accessibility is socially valuable. > But creating an inclusive experience or design can be especially > challenging in a corporate environment where many different factions > compete for attention on their own creations. In this context, > "accessibility" is far too often seen as an unprofitable niche?as well as a > source of "bad" design?and is therefore neglected in the product design > process. In this talk, I will reflect on the research I conducted at Uber > into the mobility and transportation experiences of people who are blind or > visually impaired. In this research I encountered a number of obstacles in > the form of institutional procedures, legal strictures, and general > corporate culture. It became evident that an environment like Uber's cannot > easily or quickly accommodate inclusive research and design, but there are > still paths to accessibility through the tangle of corporate branches. > > Bio: Greg Weinstein is a design research and strategist, as well as an > acoustic anthropologist. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the > University of Chicago and, in his first career, he conducted research on > classical music recording studios in the United Kingdom. He now works as a > user research consultant in industry, with specialties in accessibility and > sound. > > See you there! > Cole Gleason > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgleason at cs.cmu.edu Thu Dec 12 10:34:36 2019 From: cgleason at cs.cmu.edu (Cole Gleason) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:34:36 -0500 Subject: [Access Lunch] Meeting today! Message-ID: Hi all, We will have our last meeting of the semester today in NSH 1109! No speaker, but we can chat and strategize about next semester. See you soon, Cole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apavel at cs.cmu.edu Thu Dec 19 11:40:07 2019 From: apavel at cs.cmu.edu (Amy Pavel) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:40:07 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] No Accessibility Lunch Today! Message-ID: <9a6f23d5ed954d789840ba81bc33f182@cs.cmu.edu> Hi everyone, A quick reminder that we don't have accessibility this Thursday. Our next meeting will be 1/9 from 12-1p in NSH 1109. Enjoy your travel, break from classes, or general merriment :) See you in 2020! Amy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: