[Access Lunch] Speaker: Stephanie Valencia

[Carl Haynes-Magyar]

Thanks, Francisco!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:43 AM Francisco Calisto <fcalisto at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> We are back this week! This week, we will have Stephanie Valencia
> presenting her work titled "Designing for Agency and Access" as a *practice
> job talk*. As follows, you will have more information about the next talk.
>
> The Accessibility Lunch will be next Wednesday, the 30th of November, at
> 12pm. The meeting will happen both in person (*NSH 1109*) and online (
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/98299626118?pwd=YW9jbE40eDcrOHM1RW4yNFJ5LzRpUT09).
> There will be pizza, so we encourage you to come in person!
>
> *Talk Title:* Designing for Agency and Access
>
> *Abstract:* Agency is essential to communication, we advance our
> individual goals by communicating them. Nonetheless, agency is not a fixed
> property. Many individuals who use speech-generating devices to communicate
> encounter social constraints and barriers that reduce their agency in
> conversation including how much they can say, how they can say it, and when
> they can say it. In this talk, I will argue how using agency as a design
> framework can serve us to generate accessible communication experiences and
> center the perspectives of people with disabilities in the design process
> of new technology. I will present two cases of designing with people with
> disabilities to explore how different technology materials can support
> their agency in conversation. In doing so, I will present accessible design
> methods as well as new design guidelines for augmented communication using
> fabricated expressive objects and AI-based language generative tools.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Francisco Maria Calisto
> Twitter: @FMCalisto <https://twitter.com/FMCalisto>
> GitHub: @FMCalisto <https://github.com/FMCalisto>
> LinkedIn: @FMCalisto <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmcalisto/>
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