From cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Oct 1 08:58:48 2020 From: cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Cynthia Bennett) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:58:48 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] (Happening Today) Panel on Nonvisual Soldering and Community Engagement During Research: Thu, 10/1 2-3 P ET Message-ID: <0ec679c03c2a4615a89026b892e91682@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello Everyone, At Accessibility Seminar this week, we'll welcome a wonderful panel of speakers to present on nonvisual soldering and engaging community members in making and research. Many design and fabrication activities, such as soldering, are often not accessible. For example, an instructor may assume that their student will use vision to read electronics schematics, to attach components to circuit boards, to heat and apply solder, and to evaluate their connections. Additionally, many researchers struggle to meaningfully connect and benefit the communities we seek to work with. As such, we invited a panel with combined expertise in nonvisual making and instruction, HCI research, and lived experience as blind people, who facilitated a nonvisual soldering workshop with blind community members as part of ongoing research to increase the nonvisual accessibility of fabrication activities. Panelists will share how they built rapport across a nonvisual maker community and an academic research lab, and how their relationships have cultivated mutual respect and multiple skill building opportunities for blind people, including the soldering workshop about which specifics will also be discussed during the Accessibility Seminar. * When: Thursday, October 1 from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time. * Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94637562700#success Do invite your colleagues from inside and outside of the Carnegie Mellon University community. However, please do not post the join link publicly. Prior to Accessibility Seminar, we ask that you read this brief piece by panelist Josh Miele called, Blind Eye for the Sighted Guy. Panelist Bios Chancey Fleet Chancey Fleet is an Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library and an Affiliate-in-Residence at Data & Society. She manages numerous projects to train and educate blind and ally community members in nonvisual accessibility. For example, the Dimensions project she oversees teaches nonvisual methods for creating and producing tactile and 3d media. You can read about this and other projects on her blog archive, in this feature article, and from this keynote speech transcript. Along with commentary on contemporary issues in accessibility research and development, Chancey tweets invitations to numerous virtual accessibility workshops she co-facilitates. Josh Miele Josh Miele is a blind maker hobbyist, accessibility researcher professionally, and physicist by training. He has decades of experience tinkering, translating instructions into nonvisually accessible formats, and coalescing and teaching blind makers. He manages the Blind Arduino Blog and prior, he helped to bring The Technical File, a nonvisual-centered circuitry and making periodical online, which features many of the formative nonvisual making and electronics techniques Josh and others teach blind people today. Apart from the prereading and keynoting the 2017 Interaction Design and Children conference, Josh has contributed to numerous peer reviewed publications. You can also read a feature on his life here, and follow him on Twitter. Lauren Race Lauren Race is an inclusive designer and accessibility researcher. She is a Fellow at New York University's Ability Project, housed in the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Occupational Therapy department. She has published pages on accessibility tools for physical computing, including detailed documentation of the nonvisual soldering workshop panelists will overview during Accessibility Seminar. You can follow her on Twitter. Cynthia L. Bennett Pronouns: she/her Twitter LinkedIn Google Scholar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Nov 2 14:30:20 2020 From: cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Cynthia Bennett) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 19:30:20 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] From Academic Research to Industry: A Conversation with Accessibility Consultant Dr. Michele Williams (Thu 11/5 2 P ET) Message-ID: <2280d058c5f3440b9c55c320bee44d71@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello Everyone, We're excited to welcome Michele Williams to Accessibility Seminar this week! In conversation with accessibility Ph.D. student Stephanie Valencia, she'll talk about translating doctoral work focusing on accessibility research to industry and independent consulting after. She'll also share what she learned from working in industry before her Ph.D. and how that helped her streamline and prioritize her dissertation work. This talk will be especially informative for students of all levels struggling with project management and to students considering nonacademic career options after graduation. There will be time for the audience to ask questions at the end. * When: Thursday, November 5 from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time. * Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94637562700#success Do invite your colleagues from inside and outside of the Carnegie Mellon University community. However, please do not post the join link publicly. Michele is a longtime colleague in the accessibility community. She has published important work on topics including how blind and sighted people co-navigate together. Here is a more general bio, in her own words: Dr. Michele A. Williams has 15 years of academic and industrial experience in UX, accessibility, and technology. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Master of Software Engineering with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, and PhD in Human-Centered Computing with a focus on user-centered research with participants with disabilities to build accessible tech. In industry her positions have included Senior Voice User Interface (VUI) Designer at Convergys, Accessibility Analyst at Level Access, and Senior UX Researcher focused on Accessibility at Pearson. Most recently she has moved into independent consulting, starting her company M.A.W. Consulting, LLC - Making Accessibility Work. She is passionate about ensuring people with disabilities are not excluded from technology and has a goal of influencing the UX field to be the pioneers of this inclusion. See you Thursday! Cynthia L. Bennett Pronouns: she/her Twitter LinkedIn Google Scholar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Nov 5 08:50:30 2020 From: cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Cynthia Bennett) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 13:50:30 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] From Academic Research to Industry: A Conversation with Accessibility Consultant Dr. Michele Williams (Thu 11/5 2 P ET) In-Reply-To: <2280d058c5f3440b9c55c320bee44d71@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <2280d058c5f3440b9c55c320bee44d71@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <4b2184ee8c814b40b19b2e4247aa1a63@andrew.cmu.edu> Happening today! Hello Everyone, We're excited to welcome Michele Williams to Accessibility Seminar this week! In conversation with accessibility Ph.D. student Stephanie Valencia, she'll talk about translating doctoral work focusing on accessibility research to industry and independent consulting after. She'll also share what she learned from working in industry before her Ph.D. and how that helped her streamline and prioritize her dissertation work. This talk will be especially informative for students of all levels struggling with project management and to students considering nonacademic career options after graduation. There will be time for the audience to ask questions at the end. * When: Thursday, November 5 from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time. * Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94637562700#success Do invite your colleagues from inside and outside of the Carnegie Mellon University community. However, please do not post the join link publicly. Michele is a longtime colleague in the accessibility community. She has published important work on topics including how blind and sighted people co-navigate together. Here is a more general bio, in her own words: Dr. Michele A. Williams has 15 years of academic and industrial experience in UX, accessibility, and technology. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Master of Software Engineering with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, and PhD in Human-Centered Computing with a focus on user-centered research with participants with disabilities to build accessible tech. In industry her positions have included Senior Voice User Interface (VUI) Designer at Convergys, Accessibility Analyst at Level Access, and Senior UX Researcher focused on Accessibility at Pearson. Most recently she has moved into independent consulting, starting her company M.A.W. Consulting, LLC - Making Accessibility Work. 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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:51 AM Cynthia Bennett wrote: > Happening today! > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > We?re excited to welcome Michele Williams > to Accessibility Seminar this week! In conversation with accessibility > Ph.D. student Stephanie Valencia, > she?ll talk > about translating doctoral work focusing on accessibility research to > industry and independent consulting after. She?ll also share what she > learned from working in industry before her Ph.D. and how that helped her > streamline and prioritize her dissertation work. This talk will be > especially informative for students of all levels struggling with project > management and to students considering nonacademic career options after > graduation. There will be time for the audience to ask questions at the end. > > > > ? When: Thursday, November 5 from 2 to 3 PM Eastern Time. > > ? Where: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94637562700#success > > > > Do invite your colleagues from inside and outside of the Carnegie Mellon > University community. However, please do not post the join link publicly. > > > > Michele is a longtime colleague in the accessibility community. She has > published > important work on topics including how blind and sighted people co-navigate > together. Here is a more general bio, in her own words: > > > > Dr. Michele A. Williams has 15 years of academic and industrial experience > in UX, accessibility, and technology. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science, > Master of Software Engineering with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, > and PhD in Human-Centered Computing with a focus on user-centered research > with participants with disabilities to build accessible tech. In industry > her positions have included Senior Voice User Interface (VUI) Designer at > Convergys, Accessibility Analyst at Level Access, and Senior UX Researcher > focused on Accessibility at Pearson. Most recently she has moved into > independent consulting, starting her company M.A.W. Consulting, LLC ? > Making Accessibility Work. She is passionate about ensuring people with > disabilities are not excluded from technology and has a goal of influencing > the UX field to be the pioneers of this inclusion. > > > > See you Thursday! > > > > > > > > > > Cynthia L. Bennett > > Pronouns: she/her > > > > Twitter > > > > LinkedIn > > > > Google Scholar > > > > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-lunch mailing list > Accessibility-lunch at lists.andrew.cmu.edu > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Nov 16 08:51:50 2020 From: cbennet2 at andrew.cmu.edu (Cynthia Bennett) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:51:50 +0000 Subject: [Access Lunch] Fwd: HCII Virtual Seminar Speaker Anne Marie Piper Friday Nov 20 @ 1:30pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We don?t have Accessibility Lunch this week, but we do have a fantastic HCII Seminar speaker, Anne Marie Piper. This talk is highly relevant for HCI and accessibility researchers. Note the time is Friday, November 20, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM ET. I?ll forward other reminders to this list as the zoom link has not yet been posted. Cynthia Bennett Pronouns: she/her Web: https://www.bennettc.com/ Begin forwarded message: From: Jo Bodnar Date: November 16, 2020 at 8:24:51 AM EST To: hcii-seminar-series at cs.cmu.edu, pgh-hci at cs.cmu.edu, Jo Bodnar Subject: HCII Virtual Seminar Speaker Anne Marie Piper Friday Nov 20 @ 1:30pm ? Friday Nov 20 @ 1:30pm Zoom link forthcoming. Anne Marie Piper - Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine [image.png] Talk title: Rethinking Design for Accessibility Abstract: Approximately 61 million Americans, or one in four U.S. adults, have a disability that affects daily life. Despite the prevalence of disability across the lifespan, accessibility is typically an afterthought in technology design. Discussions of accessibility often center on checklists of requirements and whether or not a system has particular features. In this talk, I will argue for a view of accessibility that is collaboratively negotiated, situated, and enacted through sociomaterial relations. Grounded in extensive field work, I will present three cases of design for accessibility that shift how we think about building systems with and for individuals with disabilities. These projects detail new systems for collaborative meaning-making in the context of dementia, online social advocacy among blind and visually impaired older adults, and ability-diverse group work and design. Collectively, these projects reveal the interactive nature of accessibility that is often missing in individualistic system design and call attention to the importance of the social and political dimensions of accessibility alongside the technological. Bio: Anne Marie Piper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in human-computer interaction focuses on designing and studying new technologies to support communication, social interaction, and learning for people across the lifespan. Her research is funded through four NSF awards, including a CAREER award, and has been recognized with numerous Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, and ASSETS. She was named a U.S. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and received Northwestern?s Simon Award for Teaching Excellence and UC-San Diego?s Interdisciplinary Scholar Award. Anne Marie earned her PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, MA in Education from Stanford University, and BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Prior to joining UC-Irvine, she was a tenured faculty member at Northwestern University. Website: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~ampiper/ HOST: Sarah Fox & Cynthia Bennett -- Jo Bodnar Administrative Associate Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute 412-268-6162 - office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Topic: HCII Seminar Series Time: Nov 20, 2020 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95259874237?pwd=dXkzRDZpeTVxaHd3REpPRXUzYlRlQT09 Meeting ID: 952 5987 4237 Passcode: 621569 Anne Marie Piper - Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine [image.png] Talk title: Rethinking Design for Accessibility Abstract: Approximately 61 million Americans, or one in four U.S. adults, have a disability that affects daily life. Despite the prevalence of disability across the lifespan, accessibility is typically an afterthought in technology design. Discussions of accessibility often center on checklists of requirements and whether or not a system has particular features. In this talk, I will argue for a view of accessibility that is collaboratively negotiated, situated, and enacted through sociomaterial relations. Grounded in extensive field work, I will present three cases of design for accessibility that shift how we think about building systems with and for individuals with disabilities. These projects detail new systems for collaborative meaning-making in the context of dementia, online social advocacy among blind and visually impaired older adults, and ability-diverse group work and design. Collectively, these projects reveal the interactive nature of accessibility that is often missing in individualistic system design and call attention to the importance of the social and political dimensions of accessibility alongside the technological. Bio: Anne Marie Piper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research in human-computer interaction focuses on designing and studying new technologies to support communication, social interaction, and learning for people across the lifespan. Her research is funded through four NSF awards, including a CAREER award, and has been recognized with numerous Best Paper Awards and Nominations at ACM CHI, CSCW, DIS, and ASSETS. She was named a U.S. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and received Northwestern?s Simon Award for Teaching Excellence and UC-San Diego?s Interdisciplinary Scholar Award. Anne Marie earned her PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, MA in Education from Stanford University, and BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Prior to joining UC-Irvine, she was a tenured faculty member at Northwestern University. 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