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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Hi everyone, for this week’s installment of Access Lunch, we’re thrilled to have </span><strong style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">Dr. Maitraye Das</strong><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">, current postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington’s CREATE Center and incoming faculty to Northeastern University - she’ll be presenting virtually on </span><strong style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">Designing for Accessible Collaborative Content Creation in Ability-Diverse Teams</strong><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">.</span><br><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></span></div><div dir="auto">For this week’s lunch, <i style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody"><b>we’re providing Chipotle!</b></i><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"> We’ll take orders from people who are interested in convening in person at this link (</font><a style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody" href="https://chipotle.com/grouporder/Tj2itT" target="_blank">https://chipotle.com/grouporder/Tj2itT</a><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">). <i>We ask that you please keep your order under $13.50, and provide your name + andrewID when you order.</i></span></div><div dir="auto"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><i><br></i></font></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">As usual, we’ll have our session at </span><strong style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">Wed 3/01 noon-1PM </strong><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">at NSH 1109 and Zoom (</span><a href="https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99230267646?pwd=Q2pPRUtBQVJBd25lZmlpNjBYQTZGdz09" target="_blank" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">cmu.zoom.us/j/99230267646?pwd=Q2pPRUtBQVJBd25lZmlpNjBYQTZGdz09</a><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">)</span><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><i><br></i></font><br>Here's some info from Maitraye about her upcoming talk:<br><strong style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">Designing for Accessible Collaborative Content Creation in Ability-Diverse Teams</strong><br><br><strong style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody">Abstract</strong><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">:</span><br><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">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.</span><br><br><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">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.</span><br><br>-------<br><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Hope to see you Wednesday!</span><br><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody">Joon</span><span style="font-size:21.13px"><br></span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><font style="background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">JiWoong (Joon) Jang</font><font color="#747474"><i style="background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">, (he/him) - </i></font><a href="https://joonbug.me" target="_blank">joonbug.me</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="background-color:var(--backgroundColor)"><font color="#747474">Ph.D. Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute</font></span></div>
<div dir="auto"><font color="#747474">Carnegie Mellon University - </font><span style="color:rgb(116,116,116);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">School of Computer Science</span></div>
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