Whitman College

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"Make your voice high and squeak": Engaging Students with Visual Impairments in Collaborative, Participatory Sonic Interaction Design

Students who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) primarily use sound to consume information. Despite being among the largest groups using audio interfaces, they are rarely involved in designing interactive, sound-based technologies. Sound design is challenging, and often requires a niche skill set and specialized too…

DIS '24Data Physicalization +1

Open Sonifications: A Manifesto for Many Ecologies of Data and Sound

Open Sonifications is a manifesto for a more inclusive approach to data sonification. The practice of turning data into sound is dominated by approaches that prioritise analysis and algorithmic sound synthesis. This pictorial expands the boundaries of what is considered sonification by challenging existing conventions…

DIS '20Data Storytelling +1

Entangling the Roles of Maker and Interpreter in Interpersonal Data Narratives: Explorations in Sound and Yarn

To explore how materials, data, and humans collaborate to produce physical data representations, we created a series of artefacts from personal data we collected (about commuting, forgetting, and busy-ness) in different media---yarn and sound. We exchanged these artefacts without providing guidelines for how to interp…

CHI '20Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Giving Voice to Silent Data: Designing with Personal Music Listening History

Music streaming services collect listener data to support personalization and discovery of their extensive catalogs. Yet this data is typically used in ways that are not immediately apparent to listeners. We conducted design workshops with ten Spotify listeners to imagine future voice assistant (VA) interactions lever…

CHI '19Social Platform Design & User Behavior +1

Understanding Online News Behaviors

The news landscape has been changing dramatically over the past few years. Whereas news once came from a small set of highly edited sources, now people can find news from thousands of news sites online, through a variety of channels such as web search, social media, email newsletters, or direct browsing. We set out to…

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2019-2025

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Data Visualization & Information Design

Data Physicalization

Voice Interaction & Conversational Systems

Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.)

Accessibility & Inclusive Design

Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration)

Creative Tools & Content Creation

Music Composition & Sound Design Tools

Social Media & Online Communities

Social Platform Design & User Behavior