From steinfeld at cmu.edu Mon Aug 7 10:01:45 2023 From: steinfeld at cmu.edu (Aaron Steinfeld) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 10:01:45 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] Fwd: BayCHI Meeting Announcement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Gregg Vanderheiden is giving a public history/future talk tomorrow. It's on the west coast, so it starts pretty late Eastern time, but it may be dinnertime for some of you :) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steve Williams Date: Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:58?AM Subject: BayCHI Meeting Announcement To: B a y C H I The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction August 2023 Meeting Announcement https://baychi.org/ ******************************************************************* Inside this issue... 1) August Meeting 2) Dinner Information 3) Birds of a Feather Calendar *) Acknowledgments and Thanks 5) Volunteers: BayCHI Needs You! 6) Consultants Directory 7) Bay Area HCI Calendar 8) Job Bank 9) About BayCHI * These items are included in the BayCHI Newsletter, sent to BayCHI members. ******************************************************************* 1) August Meeting B a y C H I The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction Monthly Program Meeting Tuesday, August 8 7:30-9:00 p.m. https://baychi.org/program/ Past Present and Future of Accessible Computing Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace Center, UMD Register for the Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-ChqjgrG9eH3JRkTeMFE0jJkpYqTKC8 Or Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CB0U3RSloCs BayCHI program meetings are free and open to the public. BayCHI may publish audio or visual recordings. -------- ABSTRACT OF Past Present and Future of Accessible Computing: Next-next generation interfaces bring new challenges to accessibility, and new tools for addressing these barriers. This is particularly true for cognitive, language, and learning disabilities, deaf-blindness, blindness, and intellectual impairments and other combinations of disabilities. In February, the Trace Center conducted a workshop on the Future of Interface & Accessibility, bringing together the best mainstream and accessibility experts to create a research agenda. Gregg will summarize some key results. GREGG VANDERHEIDEN is professor and director of Trace Center at University of Maryland, College Park. https://ischool.umd.edu/directory/gregg-vanderheiden/ Gregg a Pioneer in Augmentative Communication and in cross-disability access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Access features in both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac operating systems came, licensed royalty free, from Trace Center. Gregg's current work is helping create a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII). Complete abstract and bio: https://baychi.org/program/ ******************************************************************* 2) Dinner Information Until it's safe to meet in person, please join Nikki Fillingim virtually at 5:30 pm. RSVP to nfillingim at baychi.org. Drop in any time between 5:30 and 7:00 pm to talk about Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Product Design, and related topics, including careers and jobs. 7:00-7:30 pm the speaker and behind-the-scenes team request your patience while we make sure all the usual and novel technologies work as expected. Use the same Zoom registration as for the program: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-ChqjgrG9eH3JRkTeMFE0jJkpYqTKC8 ******************************************************************* 3) Birds of a Feather Calendar BayCHI's Birds of a Feather (BOF) groups bring together members of the HCI community with common interests. The currently active BOFs are: - UX Life and Careers - UX Tools - Design Research - Interaction Design - Mobile Experiences -------- Continuing the UX Life and Careers BOF Edwin Li, BayCHI Tuesday, August 22, 7:00 pm https://baychi.org/bof/uxlife/20230822/ Please join us for our ongoing BayCHI UX Life and Careers BOF meeting. Check in, see how others are doing, share what you're running into, and ask for whatever support you need. Register for the Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoce6vqTgqH9M_KYJkxrlQlUpkqZVH6jA0 -------- Do you want to start a new BOF? Whatever your specific HCI interests, the BOF chair can assist you in getting the word out and setting up an initial meeting. If you need help starting a new BOF or have any other questions, please contact BOF Chair Lucy Dobler at ldobler at baychi.org. ******************************************************************* 5) Volunteers: BayCHI Needs You! BayCHI always welcomes new volunteers! In as little as a few hours per month, you can provide a valuable service to colleagues and friends in the CHI community. It's also a great way to meet and interact with others professionally. This is your chance to help support one of many BayCHI services valued by our members and the wider CHI community. BayCHI is currently seeking volunteers for the following positions: - Treasurer: The treasurer is elected by BayCHI members. For the duties of the treasurer, see: https://baychi.org/bylaws/ - Volunteer Coordinator: Coordinate onboarding for new volunteers and help current volunteers as needed. Oh, and prepare these highlights of open volunteer positions! - Meeting Reporter: Write a report of the monthly meeting to improve discoverability of programs on the website and to benefit members of the CHI community who cannot attend in person. - BOF Co-Chair: Help Birds of a Feather (BOF) leaders to establish and maintain BOF groups. Coordinate biannual BOF Leaders meetings. - Meeting Logistics Coordinator/Director: Work with program chair, dinner coordinators, treasurer, properties and souvenir coordinator, meeting reporters, and PARC hosts to coordinate the logistics of the monthly program. For a complete list of open positions and descriptions of each, see: https://baychi.org/volunteer/ If you are interested in becoming a BayCHI volunteer, please email volunteer at baychi.org. ******************************************************************* 6) Consultants Directory If you're a CHI consultant, please consider joining the BayCHI Consultants Directory. Please submit your information by email: consultants at baychi.org. The Consultants Directory includes a search tool to help prospective clients find you: https://baychi.org/consultants/ We know there's still plenty of room for improvement, so please give us your suggestions! ******************************************************************* 7) Bay Area HCI Calendar BayCHI's calendar features Bay Area events and selected events outside the Bay Area of particular interest to BayCHI members. Check the calendar often, especially now for updates on whether conferences are going online! https://baychi.org/calendar/ -------- You can contribute to the Bay Area HCI Calendar. Submit HCI events to the calendar editor at calendar at baychi.org. Please include: - Date - Sponsoring Organization - Name of Event - Presenter - Location - Short Description - URL (Web Address) ******************************************************************* 8) Job Bank The BayCHI Job Bank accepts job listings and distributes them to BayCHI members who subscribe. https://baychi.org/jobbank/ Contact the Job Bank team at jobhunt at baychi.org to subscribe. You will then receive the weekly email listings. You must join BayCHI to subscribe. Does your company have HCI openings? Submission is free and open to all. BayCHI membership is not required to submit openings. Urge your hiring managers and recruiters to submit them to the Job Bank: - Preferred: https://baychi.org/jobbank/form/ - Or by email: jobs at baychi.org ******************************************************************* 9) About BayCHI BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), brings together systems designers, human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, and users from throughout the Bay Area to hear and exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design and evaluation of user interfaces. BayCHI dues are $20 per year. Members may renew for multiple years: $40 for two years, $100 for five years, etc. To join, you may come to a BayCHI meeting, contact the membership chair at membership at baychi.org, or see: https://baychi.org/join/ The BayCHI Newsletter is a monthly publication of BayCHI, distributed by email. The BayCHI Newsletter copyright (c) ACM. 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You can subscribe to this list here: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch There's a bit more information about accessibility at CMU here: http://accessibility.cs.cmu.edu/ Thanks, and hope to see you next Monday! -Jeff (and Aaron, Patrick and Andy) -- == Associate Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University jeffreybigham.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbigham at cs.cmu.edu Sun Sep 10 11:09:52 2023 From: jbigham at cs.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Bigham) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:09:52 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] Accessibility Lunch Starts Monday, Sept. 11th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, A quick reminder that our first Accessibility Lunch will be tomorrow in NSH 4201! We'll have pizza! A quick agenda: - welcome and introductions - discuss schedule for the semester (come with ideas you'd like to present about!) - discussion of Accessibility Overlays (if there is time) Please forward to whoever you think might be interested, all are welcome. Thanks! Jeff PS I BCC a few folks who I thought might be interested but who I wasn't sure were on the Accessibility Lunch list. Please sign up for the email list here (https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch) if you haven't! On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 2:50?PM Jeffrey Bigham wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We are restarting our weekly lunch seminar series, "Accessibility Lunch", > on Monday September 11th from 12-1pm in NSH 4201. > > Come to this weekly seminar to learn more about accessibility for people > with disabilities, discuss accessibility with colleagues, and get feedback > on your accessibility related projects and presentations. As always, we > will have some sort of light lunch available. 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Vera Schulz > On Sep 18, 2023, at 8:09 AM, Jeffrey Bigham wrote: > > ? > Hi All, > > Unfortunately, I'm away today, but my understanding is we have both a speaker and food in NSH 4201 at 12pm. > > Hope you'll join! > -Jeff > > -- > == > Associate Professor > Human-Computer Interaction Institute > Language Technologies Institute > Carnegie Mellon University > jeffreybigham.com > _______________________________________________ > 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 steinfeld at cmu.edu Mon Sep 18 12:16:53 2023 From: steinfeld at cmu.edu (Aaron Steinfeld) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:16:53 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] accessibility lunch today! In-Reply-To: <8DE4A4F3-4324-4D51-ACC9-5FE13B5D32A8@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <8DE4A4F3-4324-4D51-ACC9-5FE13B5D32A8@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98299626118?pwd=YW9jbE40eDcrOHM1RW4yNFJ5LzRpUT09 On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:15?PM Brigitte Schmidt wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I didn?t get a zoom link for this meeting. 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In this study, we gave nine adults with TBI an at-home CA for four weeks to investigate use patterns, challenges, and design requirements, focusing particularly on injury-related use. The findings revealed significant gaps between the current capabilities of CAs and accessibility challenges faced by TBI users. We also identified 14 TBI-related activities that participants engaged in with CAs. We categorized those activities into four groups: mental health, cognitive activities, healthcare and rehabilitation, and routine activities. Design implications focus on accessibility improvements and functional designs of CAs that can better support the day-to-day needs of people with TBI. We'll set up zoom here, probably starting a bit after 12pm: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98299626118?pwd=YW9jbE40eDcrOHM1RW4yNFJ5LzRpUT09 See you there! -Jeff -- == Associate Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University jeffreybigham.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steinfeld at cmu.edu Thu Sep 28 16:17:49 2023 From: steinfeld at cmu.edu (Aaron Steinfeld) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:17:49 -0400 Subject: [Access Lunch] [FYI] Oct 17, RESNA event with Dr. Rory Cooper, Free Access for CMU Students Message-ID: Be Inspired by a Legend in Assistive Technology Oct. 17th Fireside Chat with Dr. Rory Cooper Free Access for CMU Students [image: Headshot of Dr Rory Cooper] Join RESNA for an engaging fireside chat with Dr. Rory Cooper, a visionary leader, coach, mentor, and the founder of HERL Labs. Dr. Cooper will take you on a remarkable journey, sharing insights into his inspiring life story, the founding of HERL Labs, his groundbreaking inventions, and his visionary outlook on the future of assistive technology. Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Location: O'Hara Ballroom at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA or available via livestream This event is FREE for CMU students. Use the discount code "COLINSTUDENT100" to sign up for complimentary registration. *Learn More and Register for the Colin *McLaurin* Lecture* About Dr. Rory Cooper During this fireside chat, Dr. Cooper will highlight the pivotal moments and invaluable lessons that have shaped his remarkable career and share the driving forces that ignited his passion for innovation and his relentless pursuit of creating solutions to enhance the lives of individuals with disabilities. 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