[Access Lunch] Thursday! Greg Weinstein speaks on inclusive design in a corporation!

[Cole Gleason]

Reminder, this is happening now!

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:19 PM Cole Gleason <cgleason at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> We will have our final accessibility lunch of the semester this Thursday
> in NSH 1109!
>
> *Looking for speakers! *We are looking for people to present at
> accessibility lunch in Spring 2020. Please contact me with suggestions for
> speakers to invite!
>
> Speaker: Greg Weinstein
> Title: Can Inclusive Design and Research Happen in a Corporation?
> Time: 12/05 12:00 pm (noon)
> Location: NSH 1109
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> See you there!
> Cole Gleason
>
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