[Access Lunch] Next Speaker: Dr. Maitraye Das (UW Create / Northeastern)

[Joon Jang]

 Hi everyone, for this week’s installment of Access Lunch, we’re thrilled
to have *Dr. Maitraye Das*, current postdoctoral fellow at University of
Washington’s CREATE Center and incoming faculty to Northeastern University
- she’ll be presenting virtually on *Designing for Accessible Collaborative
Content Creation in Ability-Diverse Teams*.

For this week’s lunch, *we’re providing Chipotle!* We’ll take orders from
people who are interested in convening in person at this link (
https://chipotle.com/grouporder/Tj2itT). *We ask that you please keep your
order under $13.50, and provide your name + andrewID when you order.*

As usual, we’ll have our session at *Wed 3/01 noon-1PM *at NSH 1109 and
Zoom (cmu.zoom.us/j/99230267646?pwd=Q2pPRUtBQVJBd25lZmlpNjBYQTZGdz09)

Here's some info from Maitraye about her upcoming talk:
*Designing for Accessible Collaborative Content Creation in Ability-Diverse
Teams*

*Abstract*:
Widely used technologies that support collaboration and content production
contribute to ongoing issues of inequity for disabled people. These tools
do not always allow for the same level of usability and efficiency for
disabled people as their non-disabled peers experience. As workplaces and
educational institutes are continuing to adopt more technology-driven
practices, existing equity gaps are likely to increase without a holistic
understanding of accessibility in content production and new tools to
support accessible collaboration. My research addresses this challenge by
understanding, designing, and building accessible collaborative content
production systems for ability-diverse teams, i.e., teams involving people
with and without disabilities. In this talk, I will provide a quick
overview of the two main directions I have pursued to enhance collaboration
between blind and sighted people: collaborative writing and collaborative
making.

Then I will dive deeper into the case study of collaborative making that
centers around my 3+ years of partnership and fieldwork within a community
weaving studio where blind fiber artists work together with sighted
instructors to produce hand-woven fabrics. Through my design inquiries
involving an audio-enhanced physical loom and an audio-tactile pattern
generation tool, I will discuss ways to better support creative work of
blind weavers and the roles technological augmentations could play in this
traditional form of making. I will conclude with summarizing my future
research plans on augmenting accessibility in collaboration, creativity,
and learning.

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Hope to see you Wednesday!
Joon

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JiWoong (Joon) Jang*, (he/him) - *joonbug.me
Ph.D. Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science
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