[Access Lunch] Speaker: Stephanie Valencia

[Carl Haynes-Magyar]

Stop by Juniors and pick up some cheesecake if you have time.  It's the
best!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:53 AM Francisco Calisto <fcalisto at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> You welcome Carl, but I am having the help of @JiWoong Jang
> <jiwoongj at andrew.cmu.edu> and @Neeta Khanuja <nkhanuja at andrew.cmu.edu> organizing
> all of this! Btw, visiting and working in NYC is amazing, but I already
> miss you all. I am back at CMU tomorrow!
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:47 AM Carl Haynes-Magyar <
> chaynesm at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>
> --
> 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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