[Access Lunch] Fwd: BayCHI Meeting Announcement

[Aaron Steinfeld]

Gregg Vanderheiden is giving a public history/future talk tomorrow. It's on
the west coast, so it starts pretty late Eastern time, but it may be
dinnertime for some of you :)

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From: Steve Williams <swilliams at baychi.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Subject: BayCHI Meeting Announcement
To: <nonmembers at baychi.org>


                               B a y C H I
                  The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
           Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

                     August 2023 Meeting Announcement
                           https://baychi.org/

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Inside this issue...

  1) August Meeting
  2) Dinner Information
  3) Birds of a Feather Calendar
  *) Acknowledgments and Thanks
  5) Volunteers: BayCHI Needs You!
  6) Consultants Directory
  7) Bay Area HCI Calendar
  8) Job Bank
  9) About BayCHI

* These items are included in the BayCHI Newsletter, sent to BayCHI
   members.

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  1) August Meeting

                               B a y C H I

                  The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
           Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
                         Monthly Program Meeting

                            Tuesday, August 8
                              7:30-9:00 p.m.
                       https://baychi.org/program/

            Past Present and Future of Accessible Computing
                 Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace Center, UMD

                      Register for the Zoom Meeting:
  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-ChqjgrG9eH3JRkTeMFE0jJkpYqTKC8

                           Or Watch on YouTube:
                       https://youtu.be/CB0U3RSloCs

BayCHI program meetings are free and open to the public.  BayCHI may
publish audio or visual recordings.

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ABSTRACT OF Past Present and Future of Accessible Computing:

Next-next generation interfaces bring new challenges to accessibility,
and new tools for addressing these barriers.  This is particularly true
for cognitive, language, and learning disabilities, deaf-blindness,
blindness, and intellectual impairments and other combinations of
disabilities.

In February, the Trace Center conducted a workshop on the Future of
Interface & Accessibility, bringing together the best mainstream and
accessibility experts to create a research agenda.  Gregg will summarize
some key results.

GREGG VANDERHEIDEN is professor and director of Trace Center at
University of Maryland, College Park.

https://ischool.umd.edu/directory/gregg-vanderheiden/

Gregg a Pioneer in Augmentative Communication and in cross-disability
access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT).  Access
features in both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac operating systems came,
licensed royalty free, from Trace Center.

Gregg's current work is helping create a Global Public Inclusive
Infrastructure (GPII).

Complete abstract and bio: https://baychi.org/program/

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  2) Dinner Information

Until it's safe to meet in person, please join Nikki Fillingim virtually
at 5:30 pm.  RSVP to nfillingim at baychi.org.

Drop in any time between 5:30 and 7:00 pm to talk about Human-Computer
Interaction, User Experience, Product Design, and related topics,
including careers and jobs.  7:00-7:30 pm the speaker and
behind-the-scenes team request your patience while we make sure all the
usual and novel technologies work as expected.

Use the same Zoom registration as for the program:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkd-ChqjgrG9eH3JRkTeMFE0jJkpYqTKC8

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  3) Birds of a Feather Calendar

BayCHI's Birds of a Feather (BOF) groups bring together members of the
HCI community with common interests.  The currently active BOFs are:

  - UX Life and Careers
  - UX Tools
  - Design Research
  - Interaction Design
  - Mobile Experiences

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                  Continuing the UX Life and Careers BOF
                             Edwin Li, BayCHI

                       Tuesday, August 22, 7:00 pm
                 https://baychi.org/bof/uxlife/20230822/

Please join us for our ongoing BayCHI UX Life and Careers BOF meeting.

Check in, see how others are doing, share what you're running into, and
ask for whatever support you need.

Register for the Zoom meeting:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwoce6vqTgqH9M_KYJkxrlQlUpkqZVH6jA0

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Do you want to start a new BOF?  Whatever your specific HCI interests,
the BOF chair can assist you in getting the word out and setting up an
initial meeting.  If you need help starting a new BOF or have any other
questions, please contact BOF Chair Lucy Dobler at ldobler at baychi.org.

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  5) Volunteers: BayCHI Needs You!

BayCHI always welcomes new volunteers!  In as little as a few hours per
month, you can provide a valuable service to colleagues and friends in
the CHI community.  It's also a great way to meet and interact with
others professionally.  This is your chance to help support one of many
BayCHI services valued by our members and the wider CHI community.

BayCHI is currently seeking volunteers for the following positions:

  - Treasurer: The treasurer is elected by BayCHI members.  For the
    duties of the treasurer, see: https://baychi.org/bylaws/
  - Volunteer Coordinator: Coordinate onboarding for new volunteers and
    help current volunteers as needed.  Oh, and prepare these highlights
    of open volunteer positions!
  - Meeting Reporter: Write a report of the monthly meeting to improve
    discoverability of programs on the website and to benefit members
    of the CHI community who cannot attend in person.
  - BOF Co-Chair: Help Birds of a Feather (BOF) leaders to establish and
    maintain BOF groups.  Coordinate biannual BOF Leaders meetings.
  - Meeting Logistics Coordinator/Director: Work with program chair,
    dinner coordinators, treasurer, properties and souvenir coordinator,
    meeting reporters, and PARC hosts to coordinate the logistics of the
    monthly program.

For a complete list of open positions and descriptions of each, see:

https://baychi.org/volunteer/

If you are interested in becoming a BayCHI volunteer, please email
volunteer at baychi.org.

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  6) Consultants Directory

If you're a CHI consultant, please consider joining the BayCHI
Consultants Directory.  Please submit your information by email:

consultants at baychi.org.

The Consultants Directory includes a search tool to help prospective
clients find you:

https://baychi.org/consultants/

We know there's still plenty of room for improvement, so please give us
your suggestions!

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  7) Bay Area HCI Calendar

BayCHI's calendar features Bay Area events and selected events outside
the Bay Area of particular interest to BayCHI members.  Check the
calendar often, especially now for updates on whether conferences are
going online!

https://baychi.org/calendar/

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You can contribute to the Bay Area HCI Calendar.  Submit HCI events to
the calendar editor at calendar at baychi.org.  Please include:

  - Date
  - Sponsoring Organization
  - Name of Event
  - Presenter
  - Location
  - Short Description
  - URL (Web Address)

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  8) Job Bank

The BayCHI Job Bank accepts job listings and distributes them to BayCHI
members who subscribe.

https://baychi.org/jobbank/

Contact the Job Bank team at jobhunt at baychi.org to subscribe.  You will
then receive the weekly email listings.  You must join BayCHI to
subscribe.

Does your company have HCI openings?  Submission is free and open to
all.  BayCHI membership is not required to submit openings.  Urge your
hiring managers and recruiters to submit them to the Job Bank:

  - Preferred: https://baychi.org/jobbank/form/
  - Or by email: jobs at baychi.org

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  9) About BayCHI

BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), brings together systems
designers, human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists,
social scientists, and users from throughout the Bay Area to hear and
exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design and
evaluation of user interfaces.

BayCHI dues are $20 per year.  Members may renew for multiple years: $40
for two years, $100 for five years, etc.

To join, you may come to a BayCHI meeting, contact the membership chair
at membership at baychi.org, or see:

https://baychi.org/join/

The BayCHI Newsletter is a monthly publication of BayCHI, distributed by
email.  The BayCHI Newsletter copyright (c) ACM.  This work is licensed
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Contacts
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https://baychi.org/

Steering Committee
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Chair: Ted Selker chair at baychi.org
Vice-Chair: Edwin Li vicechair at baychi.org
Treasurer: Volunteer Sought! treasurer at baychi.org

The full steering committee includes more than 40 volunteer members:

https://baychi.org/leaders/

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