[Access Lunch] Next Week- =?utf-8?Q?Andr=C3=A9_?=Rodrigues (University of Lisbon LASIGE)

[Joon Jang]

Hey all, André (last week’s scheduled speaker before the security concerns) has been gracious enough to offer to present for our next meeting at Wed 4/05. As usual we’re meeting at noon-1PM at NSH 1109 and Zoom (cmu.zoom.us/j/99230267646?pwd=Q2pPRUtBQVJBd25lZmlpNjBYQTZGdz09) - food will be provided!

Here’s André's talk info again.
Title: Inclusive Gaming for Blind People

Abstract
Digital games have become a widely accepted form of entertainment and an important part of social life. However, seldom have games been designed looking beyond the stereotypical young non-disabled gamer. Mainstream games are typically designed around the visual experience, with behaviours and interactions highly dependent on vision, which often leads to players being limited to specific communities and/or games based on their abilities. Attempts at improving cross-ability access to any of those are often limited in the experience they provide or disregard multiplayer experiences.

In this talk, I will cover our work in inclusive gaming for blind people, I will first 1) describe how blind people are playing with others and the inherent challenges, 2) how we explored ability-based asymmetric roles as a design approach to create engaging and challenging mixed-ability play, and lastly 3) how despite inaccessibility, blind content creators are playing mainstream games.

Hope to see you then!
Joon

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JiWoong (Joon) Jang, (he/him) - joonbug.me
Ph.D. Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University | School of Computer Science

On Mar 24, 2023 at 11:55 AM -0400, Joon Jang <jiwoongj at andrew.cmu.edu>, wrote:
> Hi everyone, for the next installment of Access Lunch we’ll be joined by, André Rodrigues, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon LASIGE and specializes in (among other things) accessible computing and inclusive gaing.
>
> As usual, we’ll have our session at Wed 3/29 noon-1PM at NSH 1109 and Zoom (cmu.zoom.us/j/99230267646?pwd=Q2pPRUtBQVJBd25lZmlpNjBYQTZGdz09)
>
> Here’s some information from André about his upcoming talk.
> Title: Inclusive Gaming for Blind People
>
> Abstract
> Digital games have become a widely accepted form of entertainment and an important part of social life. However, seldom have games been designed looking beyond the stereotypical young non-disabled gamer. Mainstream games are typically designed around the visual experience, with behaviours and interactions highly dependent on vision, which often leads to players being limited to specific communities and/or games based on their abilities. Attempts at improving cross-ability access to any of those are often limited in the experience they provide or disregard multiplayer experiences.
>
> In this talk, I will cover our work in inclusive gaming for blind people, I will first 1) describe how blind people are playing with others and the inherent challenges, 2) how we explored ability-based asymmetric roles as a design approach to create engaging and challenging mixed-ability play, and lastly 3) how despite inaccessibility, blind content creators are playing mainstream games.
>
> hope to see you then!
> Joon
>
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> JiWoong (Joon) Jang, (he/him) - joonbug.me
> Ph.D. Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University | School of Computer Science
>
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