Designing Assistive Technologies for Agency: Blind-Accessible Video Games and Audio Navigation Tools
Accessibility alone has not been enough to allow visually impaired people (VIPs) to experience the world with the same level of independence and richness as others can. Audio-based assistive technologies such as navigation aids and audio games (audio-only video games)…
Interfaces that help us refine and communicate our intent to computers
BostonCHI’s next meeting will be on Tue, Feb 9 at 6:15 PM EST, featuring Elena Glassman. Abstract It can be tough to communicate what we want a computer to do on our behalf, regardless of the method: examples, demonstrations,…
Monthly Meeting: BayCHI
More Event Details Directions Location PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA Directions Ride Sharing We encourage you to use the Discussions email list to arrange shared rides with others planning to attend. BayCHI Contact Meeting Logistics…
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…
Ailie Fraser – DUB seminar
Ailie Fraser Adobe Research 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…
Yeshimabeit Milner on Abolish Big Data and Data 4 Black Lives
Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives. She has worked since she was 17 behind the scenes as a movement builder, technologist and data scientist on a number of campaigns. She started Data for…
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…
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