Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2020
- Justin Obara
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
We Count - Learn page | Design Crit | Uttara | December 17, 2020 | |
IDRC Website Visual Design | Design Crit | Uttara, Cheryl | October 20, 2020 | Â |
Community contributor guide for web projects | Design Crit | Jon, Ned | September 29, 2020 | Examples: |
IDRC Website co-design workshop | Community Workshop | Cheryl & Uttara | September 15, 2020 | Â |
Community Meeting: Care for the Future (AMC Plenary screening) | Community Workshop | Cheryl Li | September 1, 2020 | |
IDRC Website | Design Crit | Cheryl Li | August 18, 2020 | Â |
GSoC 2020: Controller Input Project | Design Crit | Tony Atkins | August 11, 2020 | Presentation slides (Google Slides) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmryYYO4qvc Google Summer of Code student Divyanshu will be presenting his work on the gamepad navigator, a Chrome extension that enables browser navigation using any controller compatible with the HTML5 gamepad API. He will demonstrate the feature set to date, including the ability to configure your own control schemes. Although any feedback is welcome, the project is interested in: Â
We encourage you to check out the project repository and try the extension if you are interested:https://github.com/fluid-lab/gamepad-navigator |
Accessible Survey tools | Community Workshop | David, Gloria | August 4, 2020 | Agenda and notes (Google Doc) |
Fable Introduction | Community Workshop | Abid | May 26, 2020 | |
DEEP 2020 - brainstorming | Community Workshop | Gloria, Vera | May 19, 2020 | |
Platform Coop Directory / Map Accessibility | Design Crit | Dana, Eric | April 28, 2020 | |
Custom styling of checkboxes | Design Crit | Gregor, Justin, Ned | April 7, 2020 | Discussing approaches for HTML checkbox custom styling and browser compatibility. In particular we will be comparing/contrasting approaches from the Storytelling Tool, the Platform Co-op Development Kit, and Coding to Learn and Create. |
Problems Machine Learning can Solve | Community Workshop | Ted | April 1, 2020 | Ted will be talking about Problems Machine Learning can Solve. He’ll be providing an overview of the main tasks Machine Learning can perform and a shallow dive into how they work in the background. |
MyL3 | Community Workshop | Sepideh, Dana, and Philip | March 25, 2020 | (Floe) Preference Exploration and Self-Assessment (MyL3) Talking about the current state and possibly having some future focused discussions. |
Designing and Programming with Multiplicity | Community Workshop | Philip Tchernavskij | March 18, 2020 | I am going to present my doctoral research work, focusing primarily on the theories and methods I applied and appropriated. My thesis project was part of a larger grant-funded project to develop conceptual and technical models for software that help people better control the many devices, apps, and documents they deal with in our era of ubiquitous computing. Control is not just a mediated by software architecture, but also by the social and economic arrangements in which software is made and used. To study these interacting phenomena, I drew from the disciplines of infrastructural ethnography, cultural-historical activity theory, software engineering, and more. I'm going to discuss how these concepts were useful to me, how they might be useful to this community, and where I'm still struggling with them. |
Skills Development: Remote collaboration strategies | Community Workshop | Justin | March 11, 2020 | Similar to the accessibility topic we had a couple weeks ago, we will encourage participants to share their experiences of collaborating while working remotely. Please feel free to share both strategies as well as issues that you have encountered. The goal will be to try out some of the strategies together, and discuss possible solutions for issues that you have encountered. |
Assessment Process | Community Workshop | Lorna Lo | February 26, 2020 | Lorna Lo will be talking about the assessment process she uses, the information gathered and how it affects equipment choice. |
Skills Development: Accessible web design, implementation, and validation tools and techniques | Community Workshop | Jon Hung | February 19, 2020 | Notes (Google doc) Jon will be leading us through an exercise of sharing inclusion or accessibility practices, tools, advice, or experiences. This will be at time to learn and share from our collective experience. For more details, see Jon’s e-mail to the mailing list. |
UIO Plugin Icon Sketch sharing | Design Crit | Jon Hung | February 18, 2020 | Notes (Google Doc) We will be taking a look some icon sketches for the UI Options plugin. Attached are images of the icon samples at various resolutions and against different background colours. Please note that none of these are final designs – they are intended to help gather feedback. |
Making OCAD You - Passport | Community Workshop | IDRC | February 12, 2020 | Â |
Discussion about Irisbond | Community Workshop | Eduardo Jauregui | February 5, 2020 | |
CapScribe 2 | Design Crit | Charles Silverman | February 4, 2020 | We will be taking a look at CapScribe 2 and specifically examining the UX and accessibility of interactions. For background information on CapScribe, please visit this webpage: . |
Kindle Accessibility | Community Workshop | JoAnna Hunt | January 28, 2020 | Special date and time (10am ET) |
Machine Learning: What it can and can't do | Community Workshop | Ted Thompson | Januaary 22, 2020 | An explanation of how machines learn and the intrinsic limitations of this method of learning. The talk will cover how machine learning is connected to probability and statistics, optimization, and generative vs discriminatory models. Examples of different types of machine learning models and what they can and cannot do will be included. |
UIO+ plugin icon with dark theme | Design Crit | Justin / Jon | January 14, 2020 | We will be talking about the UI Options icon for the browser plugin. In particular there are 2 issues: the contrast, and the clarity of the icon. |
Google Summer of Code 2020 planning & brainstorming | Community Workshop | Â | January 8, 2020 |