Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
Charlton McIlwain – “Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past”
Abstract:Â This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with our Mississippi freedom riders. If our uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City…
Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility
Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. VR provides immersive experiences that can be beneficial in various domains, such as gaming, training simulations, education, communication, and design. As VR technologies continue to…
Simo Hosio
Title: TBD Speaker Biography: Simo Hosio is a social computing scientist, with a background rooted in ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction. He was appointed as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in the GenZ strategic profiling theme of the University of…
Olga Megorskaya
Title: TBD Speaker Biography: Olga is responsible for providing human-labeled data for all AI projects at Yandex. She is also in charge of implementing crowd-based human-in-the-loop solutions in such areas as software testing, customer support, product localization, generation of content,…
Dimeji Onafuwa – “A World Where Many Worlds Fit – Exploring Pluriversal Design Practice”
Design has an inclusion problem. Dr. Onafuwa will share a perspective on how a pluriversal posture can help us address these challenges and build better collective futures. Dr. Onafuwa will draw from the ontological definition of pluriverse (adopted by Arturo…
Remote! Code for Boston Civic Hack Night
Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. We feel that Boston…
Sara Hendren – DUB seminar
Sara Hendren Olin College The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by…
Feminist Data Set and CAre B0t with Caroline Sinders
This is a free, virtual event with professional live captions, open to the public. This talk explores how usefulness is a necessary metaphor for design and art to critique technology, create spaces of provocation and activism. Within this talk, I…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
Chancey Fleet on Digital Frictions and Dark Patterns in Accessible Technology
Digital Frictions and Dark Patterns in Accessible Technology This lecture will trouble the idea that all accessible technology is inherently liberatory and good. We'll explore how designers without disabilities create accessible technologies that constrain disabled people by failing to play…
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