Accessibility@CMU Workshop

— 6:00pm

Location:
ASA Conference Room 6115 - Gates & Hillman Centers

Speaker:
Keynote Speaker: RICHARD LADNER , Professor in Computer Science & Engineering
http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/ladner

Please join us for a new workshop on accessibility at CMU sponsored by AccessComputing) with keynote speaker Registration Requested. Agenda: 8:00-9:00 amRegistration, participant surveys and breakfast 9:00-10:00 am Keynote Speaker Richard Ladner, Professor Computer Science & Engineering; Founder, Access Computing, University of Washington 10:00-11:00 am Digital Accessibility and Disability Resources at CMU: Overview from the Digital Accessibility Committee 11:00-11:15 am - Break 11:15-12:15 pm Panel Persepectives from the Ground: Jen Mankoff, Moderator AdrianTrejo Nunez, CS Alum, Ph.D. Student , University of Austin, Texas Gloriana St. Clair, Dean Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon Librairies Scott Weingart, Digital Humanities Specialist, Dietrich College, Carnegie Mellon University Jennifer A. Rode, Senior Lecturer, UCL Knowledge Laboratory, University College London 12:15-1:00 pm - Lunch Guest Speaker Amy Hurst, Associate Professor of Himan-Center Computing, UMBC, CMU-HCII Alum 1:00-2:30 pm Introduction: Aaron Steinfeld Accessibility Research at CMU Aaron Steinfeld— Robotics and Mobile Apps for Accessible Navigation Henny Admoni — Assistive Wheelchair-Mounted Robot Arms Dragan Ahmetovic— Navcog: Cognitive Navigation Assistant for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness Jenn Mankoff— Making Accessibility Jeff Bigham— Better Accessibility via Crowds and Machine Learning 2:30-3:30 pmGeoff Kaufman—Exploring Individual and Community-Level Appraoches for Mitigating Unconscious Bias 3:30-3:45 pm - Tea BreakGroup Discussions around specific questions 3:45-5:00 pmPanel for Follow-on Questions Momin Malik, Moderator 5:00-6:00 pm - Wrap-up, Surveys, and Lab Tours/Demos Demo of NavCog: Cognitive Navigation Assistant for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness Personal Robotics Lab: demonstrating ADA and HERB Meet BAXTER and our Mobile Guide Robot DevLab Tour

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