CSE590W: Accessibility Research Seminar
Time and Place
- Autumn 2020
- Wednesday, 1:30-2:20 PST
- Google Hangouts Meet (email Annie for the link)
Instructors
Who can attend? Students at any level who are excited about the intersection of disability, race and accessibility Those who can't register directly for the course should reach out to Annie.
Seminar Expectations
Please remember to help us create an inclusive, respectful, and accessible environment for all participants. This means many things but some examples are: taking turns when speaking; introducing yourself and helping to improve caption accuracy by speaking clearly and slowly; keeping your video on if possible to make lip reading easier; remembering to do the reading, listen and avoid assuming you know what others experience; do the work to teach yourself and learn together; check in regularly; and let others speak before speaking again.
Schedule
Sept 30, 2020: Overview
Annie & Jen Overview Slides: We will discuss some of the core definitional concepts and vocabulary likely to be used in our readings this quarter.
Readings
How to center Disability in the Tech Response to COVID-19
Optional
On Being Black and ‘Disabled but Not Really’ by Imani Barbarin
Oct 7, 2020: AI & Fairness
Readings
- and Algorithmic de-biasing (pdf).
Optional Readings
Oct 14, 2020: Speech & Speech Technologies
Readings
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Jeffrey P. Bigham, Raja Kushalnagar, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Juan Pablo Flores, Saiph Savage. On How Deaf People Might Use Speech to Control Devices. [PDF]
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Talking with Tech AAC Podcast: Kevin Williams & Lateef McLeod: Black AAC Usmer Perspectives on Racism and Disability. From time 42:25 [Podcast Website] [YouTube at Timestamp] [Transcription] .
Optional Readings
Bragg, Danielle, et al. "Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective." The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 2019.
Koenecke, Allison, et al. "Racial disparities in automated speech recognition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.14 (2020): 7684-7689.
Laura Gonzales. Designing for intersectional, interdependent accessibility: a case study of multilingual technical content creation." Communication Design Quarterly Review 6.4 (2019): 35-45.
Oct 21, 2020: Governmentality and Algorithms
Readings
- Escher, Nel, and Nikola Banovic Exposing Error in Poverty Management Technology: A Method for Auditing Government Benefits Screening Tools Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4.CSCW1 (2020): 1-20.
- Financial Inequality: Disability, Race and Poverty in America. Read the introduction, if possible skim entire document
Optional Readings
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Karusala, Naveena, et al. Street-Level Realities of Data Practices in Homeless Services Provision. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3.CSCW (2019): 1-23.
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Wilson, Susan Copeland. e-government legislation meets the poverty threshold: issues for the economically disadvantaged.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. 2012.
Oct 28, 2020: Health and Healthcare provision
We will be having Christina N. Harrington from DePaul University joining us. She is speaking in the DUB seminar
Readings
- Harrington, Christina N., Katya Borgos-Rodriguez, and Anne Marie Piper. Engaging low-income African American older adults in health discussions through community-based design workshops. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019.
Optional/Additional Readings
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COMPOUNDED DISPARITIES: Health Equity at the Intersection of Disability, Race, and Ethnicity. (especially Section 4a).
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Yun, Tae-Jung, et al. Using SMS to provide continuous assessment and improve health outcomes for children with asthma. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium. 2012.
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Kaziunas, Elizabeth, Mark S. Ackerman, and Tiffany CE Veinot. Localizing chronic disease management: Information work and health translations Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 50.1 (2013): 1-10.
Nov 4, 2020: Self-description, disclosure, and class reflection
Readings
- Alex Chen. How to write an image description.
- Costa, L., Voronka, J., Landry, D., Reid, J., Mcfarlane, B., Reville, D., & Church, K. (2012). “Recovering our Stories”: A small act of resistance. Studies in Social Justice, 6(1), 85-101.
Optional/Additional Readings
- Heather D. Evans (2019): ‘Trial by fire’: forms of impairment disclosure and implications for disability identity, Disability & Society, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1580187
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Brueggemann, B. J., & Moddelmog, D. (2002). Coming-out pedagogy: Risking identity in language and literature classrooms. Pedagogy, 2(3), 311-335.
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Thomsen, Carly. "The post‐raciality and post‐spatiality of calls for LGBTQ and disability visibility." Hypatia 30.1 (2015): 149-166.
Nov 11, 2020 Veteran's Day, No Class
Nov 18, 2020: Policing, Prison, & the School to Prison Pipeline
Guest visitor: Karin Martin: an assistante professior in the Evans schol, and a crime policy specialist whose areas of expertise are monetary sanctions, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and decision-making in the criminal justice context. These issues come together in her current projects, which examine the use of money in punishment (e.g., fines, fees, restitution, etc.).
Readings
- Chicas Talk Disability 6 : Police Interactions with People With Disabilities (Transcript coming soon)
- Read executive summary (PDF pages 3-6) of Human Impact Partners. Liberating Our Health: Ending the Harms of Pretrial Incarceration and Money Bail. [offical PDF link]
Optional Readings
- Crippin’ Jim Crow: Disability, dis-location, and the school-to-prison pipeline" School to prison pipeline: Erevelles, Nirmala. Disability incarcerated. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014. p81-99.
- American Police (1 hr listen covering history of policing in America; transcript available)
- Nobody : Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. (preface and first chapter). It is available online through the UW Library.
- Stop Doing That! With Nyle DiMarco | January 30, 2019 Act 3 | Full Frontal on TBS, Samanth Bee and Nyle DiMarco explain what harms often occur when police encounter Deaf people
Nov 25, 2020: Activism in Academia and the Workplace
Readings
- Find an organization/grassroots effort at the intersection of race and disability. List their name/info on the shared notes doc before class. Be prepared to share a little on how they operate/what they focus on.
- Addressing institutional racism within initiatives for SIGCHI’s diversity and inclusion. Siobahn Day Grady, Pamela Wisniewski, Ron Metoyer, Pamela Gibbs, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Salma Elsayed-Ali , Eiad Yafi. Interactions.
- A challenging response. Jen Mankoff.
- Mayor Durkan and Seattle Police: Release the Public Records of Herbert Hightower Jr.’s 2004 Police Killing NOW! (policing and disability in Seattle)
- Demand for the University of Washington Administration to Meet the Needs of Black Students (policing and education at our home institution of UW)
Dec 2, 2020: What next?
Dec 9, 2020: Fabrication and cyborgs
- 3D printing prosthetics for amputees in Haiti
- William Easley, Foad Hamidi, Wayne G. Lutters, Amy Hurst: Shifting Expectations: Understanding Youth Employees' Handoffs in a 3D Print Shop. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 2(CSCW): 47:1-47:23 (2018) (local pdf)
- A very kind conversation between a cyborg and some biohackers