Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2017

Topic	Format	Facilitator	Date	Links / Notes

Topic	Format	Facilitator	Date	Links / Notes
UI Options+ icons	Design Crit		December 19, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday Dec. 19, we will be talking about iconography for the UI Options+ Chrome plugin.
Wheelmap / Big IDeA	Community Workshop	Jon Hung / Holger Dieterich	December 13, 2017	Meeting Notes Interactive mockup https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TWAzdnvo8Uw
Using Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to increase personal knowing	Community Workshop	Jasna Schwind	December 6, 2017	Meeting Notes http://theartofexperience.ca/ Jasna Schwind will be speaking about and leading an activity on using Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to increase personal knowing. There will be an activity that as part of this community meeting so it is recommended that you attend in person, if possible. If you are joining remotely please prepare some drawing materials (e.g. pen and paper). Meeting notes Outcomes: At completion of the workshop, participants will have an increased understanding of Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry, as a qualitative research approach. Specifically, historical and philosophical background, as well as how and where to use narrative research. Participants will also engage in experiential activities using Narrative Reflective Process. Description: This is a 90-minute workshop on Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry (AINI), qualitative research approach. In this workshop, participants learn what AINI is, and how it may be implemented in exploration of storied experiences in personal-professional situations. The workshop consists of an interactive lecture, as well as a creative reflective activity, using Narrative Reflective Process. Target audience: Anyone interested in exploring lived experiences in personal-professional situations.
Creative Commons Canada	Community Workshop	Kelsey Merkley	November 29, 2017	Meeting Notes Description: Come join us for a community meeting to discuss the new Creative Commons Global Community, how to join CC Canada and a licence refresh. An opportunity to hear case studies from IDRC and challenges and opportunities faced using CC Licences and your projects. Finally a discussion on reframing OER as an opportunity to support student mental health in Ontario.
Learning Differences article review	Design Crit		November 28, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday November 28th, we will be reviewing the Learning Differences entry for the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook. A link to the draft document can be found here: Learning Differences Google Doc. To help with a productive discussion, please review the document prior to the meeting.
The Israeli equal rights for people with disabilities law, its background and regulations	Community Workshop	Zvia Admon	November 22, 2017	Meeting Notes Presentation (pdf) Description: The presentation will start with the historical background for the law and how it was a paradigmatic shift from previous paternalistic laws. We will exams the main chapters of the law and the accessibility regulations enacted through the law, and will touch on accessibility standards and their relation to the regulations.
Faraday's Law keyboard interaction	Design Crit		November 21, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday November 21st, we will be talking about early designs for keyboard / switch interaction for the Faraday's Law PhET sim. Here is a link to the design sketch on the Fluid Wiki.
Captivating Places: The impact of inclusive design on inclusive place attachment	Community Workshop	Parinaz Mizban	November 15, 2017	Meetig Notes PowerPoint Description: The intent of my research is the development of new theoretical concepts for inclusive design. This research focuses on exploratory ‘empathic observation’ and attempts to find the perception for a needed paradigm shift. Non-physical factors in architectural space are proposed as a key affordance for amplifies the strength of designs for a sensory and soulful spatial design. The movement begins from the real world toward sensory relationships and then to the perception of continuity of senses in creating thought, mentality, spirit. The next step of this movement leads to moving to poeticism in order to create something beyond the senses. That is a world of imagination, dreams. Finally, this movement returns to the real world to provide the architectural pattern to expand inclusive design and has a captivating place.
Biodiversity Research and Climate Monitoring on Galiano Island, BC	Community Workshop	Andrew Simon	November 8, 2017	Special time: 1 - 2:30pm ET iNaturalist site Google Doc info Meeting Notes At this meeting we will be discussing community engagement and citizen science in the context of biodiversity research and local climate monitoring on Galiano Island, BC, Canada.
Personal data projects and MyL3	Design Crit		November 7, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday November 7th, we will be talking about personal data tracking and our personal data projects. Insights from this will help inform ideas for the My Lifelong Learning project.
Multilingual Support – Considerations for Design and Development	Community Workshop	Alan / Sepideh	November 1, 2017	Meeting Notes Alan and Sepideh will be leading a discussion on Multilingual Support – Considerations for Design and Development. Please see demo below. Meeting Notes Multilingual UIO Demo Description: A conversation about the intersection of inclusive design and multilingual support, covering topics like localization, translation and designing components and interfaces that can adapt to different scripts and text directions.
Inclusive design of civic engagement tools	Design Crit	Eloisa	October 31, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday October 31st, Eloisa will be seeking feedback on an article being written for the Ontario Planning Journal regarding inclusive design of civic engagement tools. i.e. How can we make civic engagement more accessible and less exclusive, especially for those at the edges whose opinions and viewpoints might matter most.
Audio Walk - Passing Through	Community Workshop	Lisa	October 25, 2017	Audio Walk We’ll be participating in an Audio Walk. This community meeting will take place offsite and we will not be able to facilitate remote participation. However, you are still able to listen to the content of the audio walk on your own and it would be interesting to know of your experience without being in the specific location. Also, If you’d like to participate in the walk, without listening to the audio, you are welcome to do that as well. For those participating in the Audio walk, please bring a device you can use to stream or pre-download and play back the audio, while on the walk. You’ll also need to bring a pair of headphones/earbuds with you. If you would like to join, but do not have a listening device, please get in touch with me and we’ll attempt to find a solution. You can either meet us at the IDRC office or at Union station. We will be leaving IDRC at 2:30pm to walk over to Union Station. We plan to start the Audio Walk at Union Station, in the Great Hall, at 2:45. Please see the Passing Through web page for more details and links to download/stream the audio walk. Description: Passing Through is an audio walk that takes you on a journey of the streets of Old Toronto, discovering the secret artworks and innovations hidden between the cobblestones. You will walk from Union Station to Old Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market, gently guided by an insightful narration that is both beautiful and exciting. Passing Through is presented in partnership with The City of Toronto Transportation Street Art Program, and the Koffler Centre of the Arts. It is produced by Angela Shackel of Accounts and Records.
OwnCloud	Design Crit		October 24, 2017	For the design crit Tuesday October 24th, we will be talking about group permissions on OwnCloud for design assets, and also revisit the topic of Design workflow and see if there is anything we can improve.
The Development and Evaluation of a Crowdsourced Mobile Application for Rating the Age-Friendliness of Communities	Community Workshop	Age-CAP team: Eryn and Jacob	October 18, 2017	Meeting Notes Slides Description: "Age-friendly Communities Assessment App (Age-CAP) was developed in 2012 to provide a crowdsourced database where older adults could rate or look up locations in their community based on the Age-Friendliness of the location. Recently, two occupational therapy students, along with the creators of Age-CAP, sought to evaluate the original version of the app and develop a more user-friendly mobile application for older adults."
Community Meeting dissemination	Community Workshop	Justin	October 4, 2017	Meeting Notes We’ll be talking about how community meetings notifications are made, as well as how the content is broadcast. Please feel free to come with suggestions and solutions for how to make the community meetings better.
My Lifelong Learning	Design Crit	Sepideh	October 3, 2017	For the design crit today October 3rd, Sepideh will be sharing the latest designs for MyL3 (My Lifelong Learning).
Discussion about making complex interactive content more accessible	Community Workshop	Alex Dunaevsky	September 27, 2017	Sample Work Alex Dunaevsky will be dropping by and engaging in a discussion with us about making complex interactive content accessible. Please see https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sample-work-alex-dunaevsky/ for a list of Alex’s sample work.
Inclusion and Innovation Training for Sports and Recreation	Community Workshop	Ather	September 20, 2017	Project Description Invitation letter to the participants Pre-session assignment Lesson plan for session #1 (July 7, 2017) Slide presentation for session #1 (July 7, 2017) Ather will be talking about the Ontario Plays, Ontario 150 Community Partnership Fund Project, Inclusion and Innovation Training for Sports and Recreation Description: The purpose of the presentation to the Inclusive Design Community is to: Provide project background including methodologies used Progress to date Challenges and opportunities Seek input into the training guide (Facilitators’ Guide)
PhET Keyboard Help Dialog	Design Crit		September 19, 2017	For the design crit on Sep 19, Taliesin will be sharing the keyboard help dialog in PhET simulations. In particular there are design questions around access, non-visual presentation. This Google doc "Keyboard Dialog Design" contains links to relevant examples as well as the design issues to be addressed.
Learning Differences	Community Workshop	Sepideh	September 13, 2017	Inclusive Design & Learning Differences Google Doc Google Drawing We will be discussing how to approach learning differences from an inclusive perspective, and incorporate the findings in our current resources (ILDH and Inclusive Design Guide).
Storytelling Tool	Design Crit		September 12, 2017	For the design crit Sep 12, we will be continuing our discussion on the Storytelling tool for the Social Justice Repair Kit (or "SJRK"). Related links: SJRK Web Storytelling Tools Storytelling Tools and Examples
Limits of design	Community Workshop	Peter Fuzesi	September 6, 2017	Description: I am a doctoral student at Lancaster University, supervised by Professors Lucy Suchman and Carol Thomas. My doctoral research project (Working title: From designing for different users to economies of difference) stands at the intersection of Disability Studies and Science Technology and Society (STS). I am interested in how corporeal and technological norms and standards are co-articulated and circulate in bodies, devices and figures such as that of the user. My presentation is based on an ethnographic study on how users are configured within the UK's public healthcare system, and looks at a specialized Service Centre that delivers Environmental Control and Augmentative Alternative Communication Systems for “Clients with Complex Needs”. The site is peculiar insofar as every individual user is delivered a personalized system, which aims to take into account the user's wider social, cultural and material environment and its changes. To meet these diverse and changing needs and to retain a flexibility to re-design systems, the Service Centre functions as a site for not only designing, maintaining but also (literally) delivering and commissioning technologies. By doing so, the work practices of those working at the Centre also augment and reconfigure market relations and infrastructures, and redraw the established boundaries between development/design and use/consumption. Although arguably the professionals in the Service Centre grapple with design problems, the language and discipline of design remains absent and the development of novel technological devices is not seen as a primary concern. It is more fitting to describe professional practices at the Centre as the artful integration (Suchman, 1999) of existing technologies into an arrangement that works for the user in a given material and social environment. Although this iterative process of constant negotiation between the developer and individual results in several inventive solutions there are serious limitations to generalize these highly situated arrangements, specifically relevant for only one individual. This raises questions about the ways design and its products can be evaluated, and the ways standards, regimes of evidence and market success and failure frame our understanding of technology design and use. In sum, approaching and problematizing this site enables a critical reflection on the normative implications of concepts such as user, product/project, design and technology in relation to liberal individualism, mass production and commodity exchange.
UI Options content simplification	Design Crit		September 5, 2017	We will be talking about a new idea for content simplification for UI Options. There isn't any artifact at the moment aside from the current content simplification adjuster in the Preferences Framework demo.
Tour: iDAPT Centre for Rehabilitation Research	Community Workshop		August 30, 2017	We will be doing an offsite visit/tour of iDAPT. Location: 550 University Ave, Toronto. Innovations gallery on first floor
Storytelling tool	Design Crit		August 22, 2017	For the design crit Aug 22, Gregor and Dana will be going over the Storytelling tool for the Social Justice Repair Kit (or "SJRK"). This wiki document "SJRK Web Storytelling Tools" describes the tool and it's ideas.
Options tutorial video brainstorming	Design Crit		August 15, 2017	For the design crit Aug 15, Avtar and I would like to discuss the upcoming work on a UI Options tutorial video. In particular, we would like to discuss what topics should be covered in a "Introduction to UI Options" video.
AT demos and discussion	Community Workshop	Maria / Pina	July 26, 2017	https://youtu.be/D0dxov4CG2I Maria and Pina will talk about and demonstrate some of the daily barriers they face while using Assistive Technologies.
Personas and curb cuts for WCAG success	Design Crit	Lisa	July 25, 2017	For the design crit July 25, Lisa will be taking us through a design activity for creating personas and curb cuts for demonstrating the benefits of WCAG compliance.
IDRC/ATRC Timeline	Community Workshop	Justin	July 19, 2017	The goal is to start piecing together a timeline of the projects that the IDRC/ATRC has been involved in. Google Doc Google Sheet Timeline
Redesigning the Fluid Build site	Design Crit		July 18, 2017	For the design crit On July 18, we will be talking about redesigning/organizing the Fluid build site.
Inclusive Wayfinding	Community Workshop	Cheryl Giraudy	July 12, 2017	Presentation TCHC (Final) Inclusive Wayfinding Book
The Social Justice Repair Kit	Design Crit		July 11, 2017	For the design crit July 11, we will be taking a look at the Social Justice Repair Kit website and how to incorporate the content from the wiki. Relevant links: http://sojustrepairit.org/ https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Social+Justice+Repair+Kit
The challenge of inclusive digital design pedagogy.	Community Workshop	Jaime Cortés Fandiño	July 5, 2017	https://youtu.be/1hD209YMJwg Presentation Paper Survey
MyL3	Design Crit		June 27, 2017	For the design crit today June 27, we will be taking a look at the design work happening on My Lifelong Learning (or MyL3). Relevant link: Touch notes and query exploration mockups Mockups - Partial Query Workflow
PhET Energy Skate Park Basics	Design Crit		June 20, 2017	For the design crit on June 20, we will be talking about some concepts for auditory interaction for the Energy Skate Park PhET sim. Relevant links: Energy Skate Park Basics on PhET (give it a try)
Content simplification for UI Options browser plugin	Design Crit		June 13, 2017	For the design crit on June 13, we will be talking about content simplification for the UI Options browser plugin.
ihabilitation	Community Workshop	Tom Dekker	June 7, 2017	http://www.ihabilitation.com www.feelnsee.com Tom Dekker and Ken Sudhues from iHabilitation will be talking about accessible online courses, as well as the screenshot diagram book they developed.
Build an Atom PhET simulation	Design Crit		June 6, 2017	For the design crit this week, we will be taking a look at the accessibility work being done with the Build an Atom PhET simulation. In particular we will look at the keyboard access and text descriptions. Relevant link: Existing Build-an-Atom simulation (has no keyboard or text descriptions)
Critical Analysis and Disability	Community Workshop	Kathryn Benoit	May 31, 2017	Slides Description: In the presentation a 7-step framework will be discussed which helps to guide the process of thinking critically about the messages we see and hear related to disability. Overall, I will review this framework, and we will work through a few examples as a group. Relation to technology: understanding how the designs or symbols we use could excluded populations which it is intended to help.
Multimodal Design Patterns for Inclusion & Accessibility	Design Crit	Alan	May 30, 2017	For the design crit on May 30, Alan will be doing a dry-run of a presentation he will be giving titled "Multimodal Design Patterns for Inclusion & Accessibility".
My Career Lab	Community Workshop	Jennifer Domise	May 24, 2017
Workshop on creating Infusion Components making (featuring the Nexus)	Community Workshop	Alan/Simon	May 3, 2017
UI Options in mobile	Design Crit