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Towards Inclusive Avatars: Disability Representation in Avatar Platforms

Digital avatars are an important part of identity representation, but there is little work on understanding how to represent disability. We interviewed 18 people with disabilities and related identities about their experiences and preferences in representing their identities with avatars. Participants generally prefer…

Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington

OPTIMISM: Enabling Collaborative Implementation of Domain-Specific Metaheuristic Optimization

For non-technical domain experts and designers it can be a substantial challenge to create designs that meet domain specific goals. This presents an opportunity to create specialized tools that produce optimized designs in the domain. However, implementing domain-specific optimization methods requires a rare combinat…

Megan Hofmann et al.Northeastern University

Making a Medical Maker's Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19

We present an ethnographic study of a maker community that conducted safety-driven medical making to deliver over 80,000 devices for use at medical facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve this, the community had to balance their clinical value of safety with the maker value of broadened participati…

Megan Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University

Maker Culture, Workshops, and Emerging Practices; Maker Culture, Workshops, and Emerging Practices

Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs

Tactile maps can help people who are blind or have low-vision navigate and familiarize themselves with unfamiliar locations. Ideally, tactile maps can be customized to an individual's unique needs and abilities because of their limited space for representation. We present Maptimizer, a tool that generates tactile maps…

Megan Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University

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Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods

Methods are fundamental to doing research and can directly impact who is included in scientific advances. Given accessibility research’s increasing popularity and pervasive barriers to conducting and participating in research experienced by people with disabilities, it is critical to ask how methods are made accessibl…

Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington

What Do We Mean by "Accessibility Research"? A Systematic Review of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and analyzed a dataset of accessibility papers appearing at CHI and ASSETS since ASSETS' founding in 1994. We qualitatively coded areas o…

Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington

The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19

Medical making intersects opposing value systems of a medical ``do no harm'' ethos and makers' drive to innovate. Since March 2020, online maker communities have formed to design, manufacture, and distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical devices needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We present…

Megan K Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University

Medical Maker Response to COVID-19: Distributed Manufacturing Infrastructure for Stop Gap Protective Equipment

Unprecedented maker efforts arose in response to COVID-19 medical supply gaps worldwide. Makers in the U.S., participated in peer-production activities to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE). Whereas, medical makers, who innovate exclusively for points of care, pivoted towards safer, reliable PPE. What wer…

Udaya Lakshmi et al.Georgia Institute of Technology

Stitching Together the Experiences of Disabled Knitters

Knitting is a popular craft that can be used to create customized fabric objects such as household items, clothing and toys. Knitting is also a relaxing and calming exercise for many knitters. Little is known about how disabled knitters use and benefit from knitting, and what accessibility solutions and challenges the…

Taylor Gotfrid et al.University Of Washington

Social App Accessibility for Deaf Signers

Social media platforms support the sharing of written text, video, and audio. All of these formats may be inaccessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), particularly those who primarily communicate via sign language, people who we call Deaf signers. We study how Deaf signers engage with social platforms…

Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington

Accessibility / Women's Empowerment

HomeSound: An Iterative Field Deployment of an In-Home Sound Awareness System for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users

We introduce HomeSound, an in-home sound awareness system for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Similar to the Echo Show or Nest Hub, HomeSound consists of a microphone and display, and uses multiple devices installed in each home. We iteratively developed two prototypes, both of which sense and visualize sound in…

Dhruv Jain et al.University of Michigan

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
Towards Inclusive Avatars: Disability Representation in Avatar Platforms Digital avatars are an important part of identity representation, but there is little work on understanding how to represent disability. We interviewed 18 people with disabilities and related identities about their experiences and preferences in representing their identities with avatars. Participants generally prefer…	KM Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington
OPTIMISM: Enabling Collaborative Implementation of Domain-Specific Metaheuristic Optimization For non-technical domain experts and designers it can be a substantial challenge to create designs that meet domain specific goals. This presents an opportunity to create specialized tools that produce optimized designs in the domain. However, implementing domain-specific optimization methods requires a rare combinat…	MH Megan Hofmann et al.Northeastern University
Making a Medical Maker's Playbook: An Ethnographic Study of Safety-Critical Collective Design by Makers in Response to COVID-19 We present an ethnographic study of a maker community that conducted safety-driven medical making to deliver over 80,000 devices for use at medical facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve this, the community had to balance their clinical value of safety with the maker value of broadened participati…	MH Megan Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University	Maker Culture, Workshops, and Emerging Practices; Maker Culture, Workshops, and Emerging Practices
Maptimizer: Using Optimization to Tailor Tactile Maps to Users Needs Tactile maps can help people who are blind or have low-vision navigate and familiarize themselves with unfamiliar locations. Ideally, tactile maps can be customized to an individual's unique needs and abilities because of their limited space for representation. We present Maptimizer, a tool that generates tactile maps…	MH Megan Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University
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emoji_events Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods Methods are fundamental to doing research and can directly impact who is included in scientific advances. Given accessibility research’s increasing popularity and pervasive barriers to conducting and participating in research experienced by people with disabilities, it is critical to ask how methods are made accessibl…	KM Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington
emoji_events What Do We Mean by "Accessibility Research"? A Systematic Review of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019 Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and analyzed a dataset of accessibility papers appearing at CHI and ASSETS since ASSETS' founding in 1994. We qualitatively coded areas o…	KM Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington
emoji_events The Right to Help and the Right Help: Fostering and Regulating Collective Action in a Medical Making Reaction to COVID-19 Medical making intersects opposing value systems of a medical ``do no harm'' ethos and makers' drive to innovate. Since March 2020, online maker communities have formed to design, manufacture, and distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical devices needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. We present…	MH Megan K Hofmann et al.Carnegie Mellon University
emoji_events Medical Maker Response to COVID-19: Distributed Manufacturing Infrastructure for Stop Gap Protective Equipment Unprecedented maker efforts arose in response to COVID-19 medical supply gaps worldwide. Makers in the U.S., participated in peer-production activities to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE). Whereas, medical makers, who innovate exclusively for points of care, pivoted towards safer, reliable PPE. What wer…	UL Udaya Lakshmi et al.Georgia Institute of Technology
Stitching Together the Experiences of Disabled Knitters Knitting is a popular craft that can be used to create customized fabric objects such as household items, clothing and toys. Knitting is also a relaxing and calming exercise for many knitters. Little is known about how disabled knitters use and benefit from knitting, and what accessibility solutions and challenges the…	TG Taylor Gotfrid et al.University Of Washington
Social App Accessibility for Deaf Signers Social media platforms support the sharing of written text, video, and audio. All of these formats may be inaccessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), particularly those who primarily communicate via sign language, people who we call Deaf signers. We study how Deaf signers engage with social platforms…	KM Kelly Mack et al.University Of Washington	Accessibility / Women's Empowerment
HomeSound: An Iterative Field Deployment of an In-Home Sound Awareness System for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users We introduce HomeSound, an in-home sound awareness system for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Similar to the Echo Show or Nest Hub, HomeSound consists of a microphone and display, and uses multiple devices installed in each home. We iteratively developed two prototypes, both of which sense and visualize sound in…	DJ Dhruv Jain et al.University of Michigan