Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2023
- Justin Obara
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Co-design discussion | Community Workshop | Cheryl Li | October 24, 2023 | 2:30 - 3:30pm ET | A discussion about what co-design means and the different ways that it is practiced. The hope is to share experiences, understand the similarities/differences, and think about new directions to develop the practice. |
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Baby bliss bot onscreen keyboard | Design Crit | Cindy Li | August 1, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: The Baby Bliss Bot project at the IDRC would like to design an editor for customizing on-screen keyboards (OSK) for people with disabilities. Baby Bliss users can use the onscreen keyboard to select a symbol which then can lead to another level of keys or keyboard. For instance, if one presses the "transportation" key, it opens the transportation keyboard. From there, someone could go even deeper into another level of keys.
The project team would like you to help generate ideas for an editor that will allow users to create different keyboards, keyboard levels, and navigation between levels of keyboards.
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Social Bonding, Move2Learn, embodied cognition | Community Workshop | Minna Nygren | July 11 | 2 - 4pm ET | Description: Whole body interaction environments are increasingly common in informal learning settings, including museums. Empirical research demonstrates that such environments can afford children opportunities to engage in learning with embodied metaphors, and play. However, less research has investigated young children’s social interaction in such settings. This talk presents a design research approach and findings from a study that investigated young children’s social interaction in whole body interaction environments. Findings demonstrate that young children engage in various forms of movement-based play during interaction, which can foster social bonding and support embodied meaning making. The talk concludes with design considerations and suggestions that can support designers, and design researchers, working from an embodiment perspective and within inclusive design
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About Minna Nygren: Minna Nygren is a post-doctoral Research Fellow based at UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), where she works alongside Professor Nadia Berthouze on an EPSRC-funded From Sensing to Collaboration project investigating the role of touch in interaction. Previously, Minna was a post-doc at UCL Knowledge Lab on Move2Learn and Move2Learn4Teachers projects focusing on embodied meaning making with Professor Sara Price. Minna’s PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is in Human Development (Title: “Landscapes of Affective Interaction: Young Children’s Enactive Engagement with Body Metaphors“) and it investigated young children’s engagement with body metaphors through iterative design. For more about Minna’s work, visit: People | @Jonathan Hung |
Primer: Baby Bliss Bot | Community Workshop | Maysa, Shirley McNaughton | April 14, 2023 | 1 - 3pm ET | Hour One History of AAC/Educational Application of Blissymbolics, 1971-2023 'Bliss' Community and Teaching of Blissymbolics, 1971-2023 Important features of Semantography (Blissymbolics} 10 minute break Hour Two Exploring possibilities for Baby Bliss Bot - an Educator’s Perspective Group Assignment and Sharing Questions, Answers, Discussion Primer: Baby Bliss Bot transcript (VTT) Primer: Baby Bliss Bot video - Part 2 Primer: Baby Bliss Bot transcript - Part 2 (VTT)
Reference | @Justin Obara @Jonathan Hung |
Paper Playground - Interactive Interaction Design Space | Design Crit | Taliesin | March 28, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: From the Inclusive Design team at PhET Interactive Simulations: A co-design tool and integrated space to collaboratively design multimodal interactions. A design space that allows for mapping physical space to design parameters, detached from standard interaction patterns for web components/design.
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Typographic revival of historical scripts | Community Workshop | Kaveh | March 16, 2023 | 12 - 1:30pm ET | Typographic revival of historical scripts Description: The Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) is a postgraduate research program and place of excellence with specific expertise in typeface design and editorial design at ENSAD Nancy, France. The program was established in 1985, aiming to ‘contribute to developing type design and typography.’ | @Justin Obara @Lisa Liskovoi
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Accessible design collaboration tools | Design Crit | Lisa, Cheryl | March 7, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | Look at and discuss options for accessible design collaboration tools. | @Justin Obara |
ChatGPT Accessibility test/comparison | Design Crit | Lisa, Maysa | February 7, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | @Justin Obara |