<div><div dir="auto">Reminder, this is happening now!</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Cole Gleason <<a href="mailto:cgleason@cs.cmu.edu">cgleason@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all!<br><div><br></div><div>We will have our final accessibility lunch of the semester this Thursday in NSH 1109! </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Looking for speakers! </b>We are looking for people to present at accessibility lunch in Spring 2020. Please contact me with suggestions for speakers to invite!</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Speaker: Greg Weinstein</div><div>Title: Can Inclusive Design and Research Happen in a Corporation?<div>Time: 12/05 12:00 pm (noon)</div><div>Location: NSH 1109</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>See you there!</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Cole Gleason<br></div></div>
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