Previous Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics
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2023 Topics
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| Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Time | Links/Notes | Coordinator |
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Co-design discussion | Community Workshop | Cheryl Li | October 24, 2023 | 2:30 - 3:30pm ET | Co-Design discussion video recording 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. | |
Baby bliss bot onscreen keyboard | Design Crit | Cindy Li | August 1, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | Baby bliss bot onscreen keyboard video recording 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. Links:
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Social Bonding, Move2Learn, embodied cognition | Community Workshop | Minna Nygren | July 11 | 2 - 4pm ET | Designing for Whole Body Interaction with Children 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 Links: 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: https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/minna-nygren | |
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 | |
Paper Playground - Interactive Interaction Design Space | Design Crit | Taliesin | Mar 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 | Workshop | Kaveh | Mar 16, 2023 NOTE: Special time and day. | 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.’ Typographic revival of historical scripts Video Recording | |
Accessible design collaboration tools | Design Crit | Lisa, Cheryl | Mar 7, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET | Accessible Design Collaboration Tools Video Recording Look at and discuss options for accessible design collaboration tools. | |
ChatGPT Accessibility test/comparison | Design Crit | Lisa, Maysa | Feb 7, 2023 | 2 - 3pm ET |
2022 Topics
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Time | Links / Notes | Coordinator |
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| Eudaemonic Design as a Co-created Approach to Health and Well-being: An Exemplar Case with Older Adults at Home | Community Workshop | Jenna Mikus | Dec 13, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Home is central to who we are as humans. It shapes us. At a time when COVID-19-related physical distancing has prompted a global live/work/play from home pervasiveness, there is a growing demand to conceptualize how homes can encourage flourishing health and well-being. Developing this understanding is especially necessary when contemplating the impact on vulnerable demographics, such as the rapidly growing older adult population who desire to age-in-place but do not necessarily have the infrastructure and support needed to do so. Based on co-designed futuring activities conducted with older adults and designers, this research focuses on understanding what a flourishing home could look and feel like when building on the neo-Aristotelian concept of eudaemonia (literally defined as eu (good or health) + daimon (true self)), which correlates to people being the best versions of themselves. Eudaemonic well-being has evolved in the field of psychology as a means of proactively designing for flourishing health and well-being via Self Determination Theory, but it has yet to be explored in a built environment context. By considering eudaemonia as a worldview, this research examines how home-based design can prompt optimal health and well-being—not only by applying the resulting Eudaemonic Design model and principles to the home environment but also by following a respectful design approach to precipitate virtually-engaged participants to feel empowered, experience agency, and act as their best eudaemonic selves. | Justin Obara David Pereyra |
| Human-robot interaction for inclusive coding education | Community Workshop | Maysa Borges Gama | Nov 29, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Educational Robotics is a widely researched and applied field, but most robotics courses for children and young are not designed or adapted for learners with disability. This context is even less explored when we observe the use of social robots for education since most human-robot interactions designed for people with disability are focused in rehabilitation, mobility, or diagnosis. Robots, especially social robots, can act as powerful tools for teaching coding to school-aged children with special needs. In this meeting, I am going to present a status report on my master's course project that seeks to adapt the Weavly platform experience into a human-robot interaction. | |
| UofT MScAC Applied Research Collaborations | Community Meetings | Daniel Giovannini / IDRC | Wednesday Oct 12, 2022 | 2:30 - 4pm ET | ||
| CTA Image inspection | Design Crit | Caren | July 5, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | The Canadian Typography Archives website requires an image inspection function that allows a user to magnify an artifact and pan over all parts of the artifact. Here is a link to an example of image inspection we are seeing as an exemplar experience using mouse functionality The CTA team has had some discussion and noted the following:
We look forward to the discussion! | |
| Meet-and-Greet | Community Meeting | Jack Tyrrell and IDRC | May 24. 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | ||
| Dobble Debate - Bake Your Own | Design Crit | Lynne Heller | Feb 8, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | A continuation of the Design Crit from January 18, 2022, focused on the Bake Your Own experience. Dobble Debate: debating with a difference, is a game that facilitates discussions and learning about human difference. The game employs the powers of play and humor to catalyze open discussion and compassionate thinking around topics that are often considered taboo. Players are challenged to rethink assumptions they may have around what it means to be disabled or have lived different experiences from their own. Dobble Debate recognizes that every individual’s lived experience is different, and changes significantly based on their current environment. Therefore, we explicitly acknowledge D/deafness, disability, differing abilities , autism, and neurodiversity plus (DDDAND+). This acronym does not cover all the diverse identities usually lumped under ‘disability’; we are using it to draw attention to the variety of human experience. The label of ‘disability’ runs the risk of minimizing the diversity of lived differences. | |
| An artifact to aid the design of 3D printed audio-tactile graphics for blind students: a Ph.D. research | Community Workshop | Emilia Christie Picelli Sanches | Jan 25, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: Emilia Sanches is a Ph.D. candidate who's coming to IDRC to develop part of her research. This community workshop intends to contextualize her research and her preliminary results. She'll briefly introduce what are 3D printed audio-tactile graphics and proceed to talk about what she is doing and what her next steps are. People are encouraged to ask questions and discuss the topic. | |
| Dobble Debate | Design Crit | Lynne Heller | Jan 18, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: Dobble Debate: debating with a difference, is a game that facilitates discussions and learning about human difference. The game employs the powers of play and humor to catalyze open discussion and compassionate thinking around topics that are often considered taboo. Players are challenged to rethink assumptions they may have around what it means to be disabled or have lived different experiences from their own. |
2021 Topics
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Participatory Design of the CareBank, a Mobile Telecare Platform for Interpersonal Empowerment through Peer-to-Peer Circles of CarePeerCare / CareBank | Workshop / Design Crit | Claude Goodman | Nov 16, 2021 | Description: The CareWheels Living Lab demonstrated the value of engaging people living independently with severe disabilities to design the CareBank, a peer-to-peer Telecare platform for their mutual benefit. Together we learned which Internet of Things (IoT) technologies worked well, and more meaningfully, we learned how to design Mobile and IoT technologies to help people work well together. Please join us for a Community Meeting presentation about the CareBank Platform and Design Crit about the CareBank App. The CareBank Project won a National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Innovation Catalyst Award. |
| Using LiveCode to go from prototype to app | Workshop | Martin Koob | Aug 17, 2021 | Description: This will be an interactive, hands on workshop where you will learn how to use LiveCode, an open source IDE, to prototype an interface, add code to the interface components and build an app that you could deploy on multiple platforms. Be ready to try a different paradigm using an easy to understand English like language and an IDE that lets you run your prototype/app as you build it. Download the IDE before the workshop if you want to follow along on your own Mac, Windows or Linux machine. |
| Canadian Typography Archives | Design Crit | Kalakriti Padmashali, Caren | Aug 3, 2021 | Description: The goal of the Canadian Typography Archives (CTA) is to create a free and open dedicated online space for documenting the histories of type and typography in Canada, whether currently public, privately held, still to be discovered, or not yet acknowledged or represented. To begin with the site will focus on pre-digital histories (approximately before 1985). On July 27th, we presented mid-fidelity wireframes of the CTA header and footer and received good feedback on ways to improve the functionality to meet accessibility guidelines. Figma File from the session As an extension of the session, we are looking to center the discussion around the individual artifact (content) pages and get feedback on various elements within the layout in regards to different interaction states, content layout and overall functionality. |
| Canadian Typography Archives | Design Crit | Kalakriti Padmashali, Caren | Jul 27, 2021 | Description: The goal of the Canadian Typography Archives (CTA) is to create a free and open dedicated online space for documenting the histories of type and typography in Canada, whether currently public, privately held, still to be discovered, or not yet acknowledged or represented. To begin with the site will focus on pre-digital histories (approximately before 1985). We have created mid-fidelity wireframes of the CTA header and footer as well as laid out content pages for the archives. In this session, we are looking for some feedback and perspective on the UX of the current pages (including but not limited to different interaction states, content layout and overall functionality). |
| Follow up on: Sonification for Balloons and Static Electricity PhET sim | Design Crit | Ashton Morris | Jul 20, 2021 | Description: During our work on Balloons and Static Electricity we ended up creating an audio tool to help us iterate on what wounded and worked best. I’ll update everyone on the progress since the last Design Crit and discuss the difficulties we had and the decisions we made during the process. Click on the PhET logo at the bottom left and then “Options” from that popup. This will allow you to use the audio tool to adjust the sound of the interaction between the charged balloon and the wall. |
| VideoLinkwell, streamlining the workflow in an interactive video eLearning app | Design Crit | Martin Koob | Jul 13, 2021 | Description: Martin Koob will demo his SaaS application VideoLinkwell. It is used in Sign Language interpreter training to record a learner's interpretation of a video sample and then allow teachers to give feedback by annotating the resulting video at various time points in the video with video or text comments. The goal is to facilitate and streamline the process of providing feedback in Sign Language. He is looking for feedback on the UX and workflow for teachers and and learners in creating, sharing, assessing and reviewing their projects. For more information on the application see VideoLinkwell.com |
| Garages, Builders, and Games | Workshop | Tony Atkins | Jun 29, 2021 | Recently, Nintendo released Game Builder Garage, an environment in which the goal is to build, play, and share games. This talk will highlight a few things about Game Builder Garage as a programming, learning, and playful environment. |
| Looseleaf: CSS for prototyping | Design Crit | Ned | Apr 20, 2021 | We'll be looking at Looseleaf, a simple CSS framework for prototyping that's being developed for use in co-design of the Accessibility in Action project. Looseleaf aims to provide clean, accessible, responsive user interface styles for rapidly prototyping web applications and websites, while evoking the experience of paper prototyping. Links: |
| Co-design Community of Practice | Workshop | Cheryl | Mar 30, 2021 | Description: In many settings, especially professional ones, we are often trained to avoid “failure” and experimentation and strive for perfectionism. However, co-design is all about experimentation. In this Community of Practice meeting, we want to explore how we make space to create a safe space to “fail”, flail, look silly, and speak honestly - both for our co-designers, and ourselves as facilitators. We'd love to explore this topic with other practitioners of co-design. |
| Sonification for Balloons and Static Electricity PhET sim | Design Crit | Ashton Morris | Mar 9, 2021 | Demo - Balloons and Static Electricity Description: The PhET project creates online physics simulations for education and in recent years is enhancing simulations with multimodal interactions. Ashton from the PhET will be sharing different iterations of the Balloons and Static Electricity simulation that use sonification to indicate the transferring of electrical charges. We will be listening and discussing the different sonification designs. It will also be an opportunity to help provide feedback to the PhET team. You can play a development version here that includes a version of the sonification. |
| Artifact Ecologies: What, why, and how? | Workshop | Philip Tchernavskij | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| Co-design Community of Practice | Workshop | Cheryl | Feb 23, 2021 | We’re hoping to start a series of Co-design Community of Practice meetings, with this meeting being the first of many. A community of practice is a group of people who share an interest for something, and they get together to share knowledge and learn how to do it better. We’re hoping to do this for co-design, since many of us are just starting co-design on our projects. We’ll use this first meeting to talk about different elements of our co-design practice: What’s happening on our projects, our interests, challenges, and more. We can also brainstorm what we want this community of practice to be. |
| High Fidelity: Online audio space for groups | Lightning Talk | Alan | Feb 3, 2021 | https://www.highfidelity.com |
| A research on 3D printed audio-tactile graphics | Workshop | Emilia Sanches | Jan 26, 2021 | |
| Introduction to 3D printing and custom models (with Open Source tools) | Workshop | Jon | Jan 19, 2021 | This workshop will introduce 3D printing and aims to break down the barriers through relevant examples and live demonstration. The workshop will also focus on using open source hardware and software. Participants do not need any prior experience in 3D printing and will not need a 3D printer. |
2020 Topics
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| We Count - Learn page | Design Crit | Uttara | Dec 17, 2020 | Zoom video recording |
| IDRC Website Visual Design | Design Crit | Uttara, Cheryl | Oct 20, 2020 | |
| Community contributor guide for web projects | Design Crit | Jon, Ned | Sep 29, 2020 | Examples: |
| IDRC Website co-design workshop | Workshop | Cheryl & Uttara | Sep 15, 2020 | |
| Community Meeting: Care for the Future (AMC Plenary screening) | Workshop | Cheryl Li | Sep 1, 2020 | Video recording of the Care for the Future AMC Plenary (Youtube) |
| IDRC Website | Design Crit | Cheryl Li | Aug 18, 2020 | |
| GSoC 2020: Controller Input Project | Design Crit | Tony Atkins | Aug 11, 2020 | Presentation slides (Google Slides) Video demo of plugin (Youtube) 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:
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 | Workshop | David, Gloria | Aug 4, 2020 | Agenda and notes (Google Doc) |
| Fable Introduction | Workshop | Abid | May 26, 2020 | Video Recording |
| DEEP 2020 - brainstorming | Workshop | Gloria, Vera | May 19, 2020 | |
| Platform Coop Directory / Map Accessibility | Design Crit | Dana, Eric | Apr 28, 2020 | |
| Custom styling of checkboxes | Design Crit | Gregor, Justin, Ned | Apr 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 | Workshop | Ted | Apr 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 | Workshop | Sepideh, Dana, and Philip | Mar 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 | Workshop | Philip Tchernavskij | Mar 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 | Workshop | Justin | Mar 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 | Workshop | Lorna Lo | Feb 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 | Workshop | Jon Hung | Feb 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 | Feb 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 | Workshop | IDRC | Feb 12, 2020 | |
| Discussion about Irisbond | Workshop | Eduardo Jauregui | Feb 5, 2020 | Irisbond |
| CapScribe 2 | Design Crit | Charles Silverman | Feb 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: https://inclusivemedia.ca/capscribe.shtml. |
| Kindle Accessibility | Workshop | JoAnna Hunt | Jan 28, 2020 | Special date and time (10am ET) |
| Machine Learning: What it can and can't do | Workshop | Ted Thompson | Jan 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 | Jan14, 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 | Workshop | Jan 8, 2020 | Google Summer of Code 2020 with the Fluid Project |
2019 Topics
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Coding to Learn and Create | Design Crit | Lisa | Dec 4, 2019 | We will be looking at some early work on accessibility annotation for the Coding to Learn and Create prototype. You can review the Figma file here:https://www.figma.com/file/S2slfoXt8yJifGFO1WaF8t/C2LC-V0.5?node-id=0%3A1. Accessibility annotation is a way to communicate the desired accessibility functionality from a design to implementation. |
| Interactive Holograms | Workshop | Michael Carter | Nov 27, 2019 | I utilize a holographic display to create new ways of visualizing 3D artifacts for learning, in addition with creating interactions using RFID recognition. Right now I have a heavy focus on designing for Museums, but ultimately I'm trying to conceptualize new ways of engaging students in educational content to help with distractions in classrooms. |
| Translating Design Wireframes Into Accessible HTML/CSS (Webinar) | Workshop | Harris Schneiderman via Smashing Magazine | Nov 20, 2019 | |
| IDRC Website redesign - Get involved section | Design Crit | Jon | Nov 19, 2019 | We will be taking a look at a mock-up for the “Get Involved” section of the IDRC website redesign. |
| Storytelling Tool content authoring | Design Crit | Gregor, Jon, Justin | Nov 12, 2019 | We will be talking about the Storytelling Tool. Specifically:
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| Platform coop co-design “potluck” dry run | Workshop | Cheryl Li | Oct 30, 2019 | At this design crit, we will be participating in the Platform Coop co-design “potluck” dry run where we will spend time identifying common inclusive design challenges and needs. This “potluck” will continue into the Community Meeting on Wednesday October 30 2:30pm to 4pm ET where we will collaboratively come up with ideas to address these challenges. You can choose to attend either Tuesday or Wednesday meeting, or both. The meeting will be hosted in the Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West (IDRC offices) in Toronto, and online in this Vidyo web conference room. For more information on the Community design crits, please visit the Design Crit wiki page. A description of the “potluck” follows below: Come and join the Platform Coop project for a dry run of the co-design workshop we are running next week at the PCC conference. The goal of this co-design is to:
To recontextualize the workshop for our group, we’ll be asking you:
This will be a double bill, meaning that there will be two parts:
Note that you do not need to come to the first one to come to the second one! Drop by one, or both. |
| Platform Coop co-design potluck dry run | Design Crit | Cheryl, Ned | Oct 29, 2019 | At this design crit, we will be participating in the Platform Coop co-design “potluck” dry run where we will spend time identifying common inclusive design challenges and needs. This “potluck” will continue into the Community Meeting on Wednesday October 30 2:30pm to 4pm ET where we will collaboratively come up with ideas to address these challenges. You can choose to attend either Tuesday or Wednesday meeting, or both. The meeting will be hosted in the Collaboration room at 205 Richmond Street West (IDRC offices) in Toronto, and online in this Vidyo web conference room. For more information on the Community design crits, please visit the Design Crit wiki page. A description of the “potluck” follows below: Come and join the Platform Coop project for a dry run of the co-design workshop we are running next week at the PCC conference. The goal of this co-design is to:
To recontextualize the workshop for our group, we’ll be asking you:
This will be a double bill, meaning that there will be two parts:
Note that you do not need to come to the first one to come to the second one! Drop by one, or both. |
| Sketching for Coding to Learn (C2LC) | Design Crit | Daniel | Oct 1, 2019 | The purpose of the sketch session is to come up with ideas to make interaction with the coding robots more fun and engaging like gamifying the interaction (like a RPG with stories), and maybe talk about some system design too. |
| Learning Circles | Workshop | Grif Peterson | Sep 25, 2019 | This week, we'll be joined by Grif Peterson, executive director at Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). For the past four years, P2PU has been developing and supporting learning circles: groups of people who meet in public spaces like libraries to learn something together using online courses. Learning circles began at Chicago Public Library, and have since spread to more than 100 cities and towns around the world, including Toronto. Grif will briefly introduce the project, sharing some insights on how P2PU's conceptions of public space, online education, and peer learning have evolved during this project, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. He and Jutta have spoken a little bit about possible collaborations, and he'd love to explore that with others as well. |
| Sustainable Dev Goals Action Guide | Design Crit | Liam | Sep 24, 2019 | TakingITGlobal is developing action guides for youth based on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. On September 24, join us in brainstorming and discussing the design of an accessible online version of these guides. Related resources:
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| IDRC Website wireframes | Design Crit | Cheryl | Sep 18, 2019 | We will be taking a look at some new IDRC website wireframes. We will be looking for feedback into the early designs and functionality of the website. Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GXNT97yIdTNJhNm0x7InxK2JUYyleDjFLcuIXuM9eWE/edit?usp=sharing Figma file: https://www.figma.com/file/VjEeG0FZx7K2TtZJI4BhwS/IDRC-wireframes-design-crit-Sept-18-2019?node-id=0%3A1 As you can see, things are still pretty rough and low-fidelity right now, and we don't have all the pages designed yet. Please feel free to leave comments on both applications, especially if you won't' be able to make it tomorrow but still want to take a peek / provide feedback! For some context, some of the questions we're trying to answer with the website are: - What projects does the IDRC work on? - What is inclusive design, and how to I learn more about it / apply them to my own practice? - What are the approaches, methods, or processes that the IDRC takes? - Are there opportunities to get involved with the IDRC? If so, what are they? - Who is on the team? - What exactly does the IDRC do? |
| Strategies for accessible notifications on changed content | Design Crit | Justin, Gregor | Sep 17, 2019 | We will be talking about strategies for accessible web notifications for changes of web content. This discussion will likely be technical and will involve talking about different implementations of code. |
| Inclusive Analytics | Design Crit | Everyone | Aug 20, 2019 | Questions to provoke discussion:
These questions are broad-reaching in its impact, and can apply across many domains: the workplace, within a classroom, deployment of services and products, etc. |
| C2LC co-design recap | Workshop | Sepideh, Crystal, Kendra | Aug 7, 2019 | The Coding to Learn and Create (C2LC) team would like to share some of their experiences, challenges and insights from four co-design sessions with kids with complex learning needs. We would like to hear your feedback about our process and activities in order to improve our co-design approach for similar events in the future. |
| IDRC Website Information Architecture | Design Crit | Cheryl | Aug 6, 2019 | Cheryl will be leading a discussion on the information architecture of the IDRC website redesign. I am hoping to split our hour together with two main chunks:
- Who are the people coming to our website? - What do they come here to do? - What sorts of problems do they encounter when they try to do these things? (May help to think back to any support requests you’ve received) - Bonus: Any ideas on how to address these issues?
Link here, if you'd like to look in advance: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1VsW0vB1PF-gQn8fAMmPKRpny3DbhPXLkjBxxycqzDoU/edit?usp=sharing While this discussion should stay fairly open, if you're someone who likes to have a few questions to guide your feedback, you can consider these: - What should stay? - What’s missing? - What is a potential red flag? - What are areas for further exploration? Here is the wiki page for the IDRC website: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/IDRC+Website+Redesign+2019 And here are the notes from the crit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6jXBCSYazTKxc6lT6gkWZ4E8jTZOXEduFm1iI1BYnI/edit?usp=sharing |
"Big Data" and "AI" for Africa's Voices Foundation | Workshop | Luke Church | Jul 31, 2019 | Luke Church will speak to us about his recent work on big data and AI with Africa’s Voices Foundation and his research as a human-centric programming language designer. |
Adding new features to UIO Part 2 | Design Crit | Justin | Jul 30, 2019 | We will be continuing our discussion on new UIO features. |
| ILDH design refresh critique | Design Crit | Caren Watkins | Jul 24, 2019 | We’ll be doing a design critique of the upcoming redesign for the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook (ILDH). |
| Video: Graphic Means | Workshop | Lisa | Jul 17, 2019 | We will be watching the film Graphic Means. |
| Adding new features to UIO | Design Crit | Justin | Jul 16, 2019 | Examples: We will review the new Prefs Framework and UIO+ preferences (letter spacing, word spacing, syllables, text-to-speech, simplify, captions, localization) to determine which should be added to the standard UIO configuration. We will also discuss the “prefers-color-scheme” and “prefers-reduced-motion” CSS media features in relation to their use with the preferences framework. |
| ILDH | Design Crit | Caren Watkins | Jun 25, 2019 | https://handbook.floeproject.org/index.html Structure maps: Existing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mYdTv3KK_zwaV88PMHi-KmoQOjLZltKZaTPEFLD2FZQ/edit Proposed https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TiEqHCYyoVnGb7kbYJAfRh1-EfaVUMgBUANoWndNnww/edit WireType or ProtoFrame (wireframe and prototype hybrid We will be taking a look at early redesign work being done on the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook including changes to navigation, information architecture, and discoverability. |
| Usability testing | Design Crit | Cheryl | Jun 25, 2019 | We will be talking about usability testing in an inclusive design context. This hour will be dedicated to critiquing usability testing, and discussing questions such as: What exactly are the problems with usability testing? Are there certain contexts that are better for usability testing than others? What is usability testing good for?How can we re-imagine usability testing to be more inclusive? |
| Designing for Contrast Themes | Design Crit | Cheryl | Jun 18, 2019 | We will be talking about contrast themes and how incorporate them into designs. |
| Accessibility at TPL | Workshop | Winona McMorrow | May 22, 2019 | Description: |
| Feedback for upcoming co-design session | Workshop | Ample Labs | May 15, 2019 | Description: Ample Labs is a nonprofit group creating technology to empower those experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. They are co-designing their projects and products with the community and have a session coming up with Sherbourne Health Centre’s Supporting Our Youth program for LGBTQ newcomer and immigrant youth. They’re hoping to get feedback from IDRC on the facilitation and activities for this upcoming session. |
| Coordinating and communicating design crits and community workshops | Design Crit | Jon, Gregor, Lisa | May 7, 2019 | We will be talking about how the community design crits (hosted on Tuesdays) and the community workshop (hosted on Wednesdays) are organized and conducted. We will talk about the current state of these meetings and come up with ideas to improve them. |
| Guru app | Design Crit | Michelle | Apr 30, 2019 | Description: "Gooru Learning Navigator with particular emphasis on learning differences. The Learning Navigator is a “GPS for Learning” — a way for each student to follow their own path to mastery. Schools ask every student to achieve the same level of proficiency, but each student begins with a different set of knowledge and skills. The Learning Navigator meets each student exactly where they are and navigates them to their learning goals." |
| Clinic for Open Source Arts | Workshop | Christopher Coleman | Apr 24, 2019 | Description: The Clinic for Open-Source Arts explores, supports, and celebrates local and global efforts to make free and open-source tools that allow people to be creative with digital technology. |
| Sign to text / audio | Design Crit | Ade | Apr 16, 2019 | Ayoade (Ade) Adetokubo from the University of Cincinnati will be sharing a project supporting pharmacists with sign-to-text / voice.
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| Various topics relating to inclusive design and design management | Workshop | Johan Verstraete | Apr 3, 2019 | Johan Verstraete will be joining us to discuss various topics relating to inclusive design and design management. We will have a sign-language interpreter available to facilitate communication. |
| National Young Farmers Coalition beta app | Workshop | Lindsey Lusher Shute, Michael Parker, Dan Stone | Mar 27, 2019 | Description: The National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) is an American national advocacy network of young farmers fighting for the future of agriculture. |
| Co-design activities discussion | Design Crit | Sepideh, Cheryl | Mar 26, 2019 | We will be having a discussion about our recent co-design activities and sharing our experiences and discover possible ways to improve or do things differently. |
| Beverley School staff visit to IDRC | Workshop | Mar 20, 2019 | ||
| More than a feeling? Scientific evidence on perceiving music through a sense of touch. | Workshop | Sean Gilmore | Mar 13, 2019 | Description: With advancements In technology the idea of inclusivity within music has become more possible than ever before. This talk discusses the technology and science behind the idea that deaf communities may be able to experience music through a sense of touch. |
| CBC digital documentary series Red Button | Workshop | Jonathan Jude | Mar 6, 2019 | Description: Red Button is a ground-breaking and innovative CBC digital series where young Canadian documentary subjects become the filmmakers, providing remarkably honest perspectives of marginalized and misunderstood communities |
| The Why, Who, What, When, Where & How of our Inclusive Design Theory and Practice: making it easier to find, navigate and apply our inclusive design guidance. | Design Crit | Jutta | Feb 26, 2019 | Jutta will be talking about: "The Why, Who, What, When, Where & How of our Inclusive Design Theory and Practice: making it easier to find, navigate and apply our inclusive design guidance". |
Tech-Inclusion: Developing Coding Classes for Deaf Youths. | Workshop | Claudia McKoy | Feb 20, 2019 | “Tech-Inclusion: Developing Coding Classes for Deaf Youths” will be facilitated by Claudia McKoy of Creative Amnesty. Creative Amnesty is an UpSurgence initiative that focuses on finding practical ways to include marginalized communities into our emerging tech-based economy. Last fall, the Creative Amnesty’s team worked with community leaders, interpreters and coding educators to design coding classes that were accessible for Deaf children. |
| Chronopoetical Systems of Sounding Vision, All at Once: a residency at Signal Culture | Workshop | Colin Clark | Feb 13, 2019 | |
| Platform Coop Website | Design Crit | Cheryl, Dana | Feb 12, 2019 | Dana and Cheryl will be sharing the designs for the platform coop website. Website prototype on mobile: https://invis.io/JMPX498CW7H#/340267216_01-Landing_Page Feedback spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YowOmLOwtfvA6miLJq3dHGdUaawpI0xQzLrAAbmDrzw/edit?usp=sharing |
| SEWA Home Beauty Services Coop | Design Crit | Dana | Jan 29, 2019 | Dana will be sharing the latest website designs for the Self-Employed Women's Association (or "SEWA") home beauty services coop. These designs are a result of co-design sessions that took place in Ahmedabad in November 2018. |
| Ample Labs: Using technology to empower individuals experiencing homelessness. | Workshop | Cheryl Li, CG Chen, Matt Wong | Jan 23, 2019 | Presented by Ample Labs, a social startup committed to using technology to empower individuals experiencing homelessness. Ample Labs was born out of a pilot project called HomeTO and a desire to contribute to our local community here in Toronto. Their work was originally inspired by social initiatives like San Francisco’s Link-SF as well as broad research showing that even when experiencing homelessness, most people rely heavily on smartphones to find vital information. Since then, the team has grown to include a dedicated and diverse group of designers, developers, researchers, consultants, public servants, and community members—all united by a common commitment to using tech for social good. Website: https://www.amplelabs.co/ |
| Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Design Crit | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | Jan 22, 2019 | The Law and Design Co-Lab will be sharing a design and asking for feedback related to the Ontario Standard Form Lease redesign. |
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Workshop | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | Jan 16, 2019 | In January 2018, the Ontario government released a Standard Form Lease for residential tenancies. This was a great step towards promoting fairness in residential leases. However, we believe the document itself can be better-designed and made more accessible. |
Storytelling Tool Demo and Feedback | Design Crit | Sepideh | Jan 15, 2019 | https://pad.gpii.net/p/storytelling-testing-o6p4nsv https://stories.floeproject.org/ conducting some user testing of the latest version of the Storytelling Tool and discussing the outcomes of that process. A wireframe of the design can be accessed here (Image PDF). |
| GSoC 2019 Brainstorming | Workshop | Alan, Cindy | Jan 9, 2019 | |
| SJRK Web Accessibility Review | Design Crit | Lisa, Silvia | Jan 2019 |
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2018 Topics
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| ELIA Font | Byron Johnson, Andrew Chepaitis | Dec 12 | Description: ELIA Life Technology (ELT) is a public benefit corporation that develops assistive technology for people who have a visual impairment. The company’s flagship product is the ELIA Frames™ font: an intuitive tactile font for people who are previously sighted. Designed with independence in mind, the ELIA Frames™ font has been developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health. ELIA Frames™ was formally introduced to the world with a successful Kickstarter Campaign and debuted at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. The company is a member of the NEW INC. cultural incubator, affiliated with the New Museum. Andrew Chepaitis is the president and CEO. Byron Johnson is the Research and Operations Manager. ELT is based in Brooklyn, NY. |
| Co-design with SEWA in Ahmedabad, India | Dana and Michelle | Dec 11 | Dana and Michelle will give a recap of their trip to India and the co-design they did there. |
| Addressing Institutional Barriers to Access in Financial Systems | Kris Coward | Nov 28 | An estimated 1.7 billion people lack access to financial services through traditional banking systems, often due to systemic barriers such as having to meet identification requirements (while living in a jurisdiction without an adequately functioning civil society to issue the necessary identification). Cryptocurrencies have been touted as possible solution, but introduce their own barriers to access, as well as suffering from barriers between crypto-finance and traditional finance. These barriers will be examined, as well as technical and policy measures that can help remove them. |
| WCAG 2.1 changes | Lisa | Nov 21 | We will be discussing updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in version 2.1. |
| Prefs Framework | Justin | Nov 14 | We’ll be talking about the Preferences Framework, the framework behind UI Options and other preferences editors. We’ll be discussing the integrator experience and, if time, the user experience and future plans for the preferences framework. |
| IDRC Website Design | Jon, Michelle | Nov 13 | For the design crit Tuesday November 13th, Michelle and I will be revisiting the IDRC website designs created 2 years ago, and discuss some possible changes and updates. |
| "Seeing with Other Eyes" | Lisa | Nov 7 | Lisa will be recapping, "Seeing with Other Eyes”, a photography exhibit by and for the visually impaired at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. |
SJRK and Platform Co-op websites | Nov 6 | We will be covering the SJRK website mockups, and if time permitting, discuss platform co-op site design as well. | |
| Design History and Speculative Future of UIO | Alan | Oct 31 |
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Template for doing co-design for the Inclusive Cities Toolkit | Oct 30 | ||
Feedback for Social Justice Repair Kit website design | Oct 30 | ||
| Project Show and Tell | Oct 24 | We’ll be making the time available for doing a “show and tell” for some of our projects. If you have something that you’d like to quickly show and talk about, please let me know. | |
| GSoC Mentors Summit Debrief | Gregor | Oct 17 | Gregor will be providing a debrief from this years GSoC (Google Summer of Code) mentor’s summit. |
| DEEP 2018 debrief | Oct 16 | For the design crit Tuesday October 16th, we will be doing a debrief and retrospective on this year's DEEP conference. | |
| On Continuing Creativity and What Lies in the Path of the Revolution: Thinking through the hard problems of designing, using, and changing software in practice. | Colin Clark, Antranig Basman, Philip Tchernavskij | Oct 3 |
Colin, Antranig, and Philip will be talking about On Continuing Creativity and What Lies in the Path of the Revolution: Thinking through the hard problems of designing, using, and changing software in practice. |
| Documenting Accessibility in Wireframes | Rob Carr | Sep 26 | Description:
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| DEEP 2018 presentations part 2 | Jon Hung | Sep 25 | For the design crit Tuesday September 25th, we will be continuing our planning of the DEEP conference. I will be facilitating the discussion about the 5 minute Open House stories, and how we might impart inclusive flavours to the narratives we share. |
| Connecting Offline Learners to the World's Knowledge | Nicole Comforto | Sep 19 | Description:
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DEEP conference preparations | Sep 18 | For the design crit Tuesday Sep 18, we will be talking about the DEEP upcoming conference on October 12 - 13. We'll be talking about presentations, demos, and IDRC roles during the 2 day conference / party. | |
| The Republic of Childhood: Learning from the Future | Neil Wilson | Sep 12 | Description:
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UIO word spacing icon | Sep 11 | For the design crit Tuesday September 11th, we will be talking about the word spacing icon for UI Options. We will be looking for ideas for how word spacing can be represented as a graphic that scales well on a variety of devices and contexts. | |
| Creating a Meaningful Involvement Prototype for WCAG Silver | Cybele Sack | Sep 5 | Description:
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| New Inclusive Housing Model - Feedback Session | Chris Zhang / Mohsen Mahjoobnia | Aug 29 | Description:
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UI Options Plus text-to-speech | Justin | Aug 28 | For the design crit Tuesday August 28th, Justin will be asking for some quick feedback on the on-demand selected text-to-speech feature of UI Options Plus. There will be some extra time to cover other topics, so other discussions are welcome. |
| Smart Cities | Gillian / Syeda | Aug 22 | Gillian and Syeda will be presenting a report on smart cities from around the world. They will discuss the definition of “smart cities” and different understandings associated with the term, do a brief overview of a few smart cities that are successful and others that have a strong strategic plan to becoming “smart”, and present criticisms/feedback they have received from experts. |
Meaningful Involvement Prototype for Silver (WCAG) | Cybele | Aug 21 | This design crit is an opportunity to share ideas to increase meaningful involvement of people with disabilities in accessibility of digital content and tools. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are going through a generational transformation in the form of the Silver Task Force (AG). I'd like to get feedback on a process, prototype, user testing, and conformance model for this initiative. |
| Presentation on GSoC 2018 Projects | GSoC Students | Aug 15 | Description: Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school. |
| Designing a way-finding tool for people with cognitive difficulties | Neeta Khanuja | Aug 7 | Description:
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| Inclusive Activities Brainstorming | Jon Hung | Aug 1 | Video Recording |
| Exoskeleton Devices | John Byrne | July 25 | |
Co-design activities for inclusive cities | July 24 | For the design crit Tuesday July 24th, we will be talking about co-design activities related to designing for inclusive cities. We would like to talk about, and get feedback for, new activities that we want to do in different communities. | |
| MyData - A human-centered approach to personal data management | Teemu Ropponen | July 18 | Description:
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Youth activism resources | July 17 | For the design crit July 17th, we will be reviewing the Social Justice Repair Kit resourcesand assist with generating a list of resources that are of interest to youth activist groups. | |
Adding more contrast choices to UI Options | July 10 | For the design crit Tuesday July 10th, we will be chatting about adding additional contrast themes to the contrast adjuster in UI Options, and how the adjuster can be changed to accommodate more settings. | |
| BIG IDeA and Our Doors Are Open | David Pereyra | July 4 | |
| Accessible Media Production program at Mohawk College | Jennifer Jahnke | June 27 | https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/programs/graduate-studies/accessible-media-production-390 |
Storytelling tool technical audit | Alan, Gregor | June 26 | For the design crit Tuesday June 26th, Alan and Gregor will lead an examination of the software design and architecture of the Storytelling Tool. |
| Inclusive Design and Frugal Design | Daniel Ura | June 20 | |
Storytelling tool Colombia trip debrief (Part 2) | Michelle, Dana | June 19 | For the design crit Tuesday June 19, Michelle and Dana will continue sharing their experiences from Colombia where they visited two rural schools and attended a workshop in the city of Medellín, organised by Karisma. They will show some photos and talk about what they did with the students and at the workshop, and some of the issues that came up with the storytelling tool. Hopefully also discuss collectively next steps. |
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Storytelling tool Colombia trip debrief | Michelle, Dana | June 12 | For the design crit Tuesday June 12, Michelle and Dana will be sharing about their experiences in Colombia where they visited two rural schools and attended a workshop in the city of Medellín, organised by Karisma. They will show some photos and talk about what they did with the students and at the workshop, and some of the issues that came up with the storytelling tool. Hopefully also discuss collectively next steps. |
| co-op student presentation | co-op students | June 6 | |
| Fable | Abid Virani | May 30 | "Fable Tech Labs is trying to make it easier to engage people who live with a disability in the QA process. Our prototype allows companies to submit tickets to our community, test a user story, and receive a report on their experience. We are currently working towards a beta product, which will allow a ticket to reach up to ten users and allow clients to see data populate live. |
Inclusive Cities website and IDRC 25th Anniversary Logo | May 29 | • A redesign of the Inclusive Cities website, currently at http://cities.inclusivedesign.ca • Lisa Liskovoi will be presenting her work on the IDRC’s 25th Anniversary logo. | |
| Laboratory Assistive Devices - Collaboration & Distribution | Ronald Soong | May 23 | Meeting Notes |
| Firefox accessibility Inspector, AOM, and etc. | Yura Zenevich | May 16 | |
| Faraday's Law PhET simulation | Jon Hung | May 15 | Discussing the latest accessibility designs for the Faraday's Law PhET simulation including keyboard navigation, text descriptions, and possibly sonification (time permitting). Relevant link: The current Faraday's Law sim. |
| New Infusion Framework features | Antranig | May 9 | Documentation pull (pls review) Implementation pull (pls review) Paper (too late to review!) Infusion is a different kind of JavaScript framework. Our approach is to leave you in control—it's your interface, using your markup, your way. Infusion is accessible and very, very configurable. Infusion includes:
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| Story telling tool | May 8 | For the May 8th design crit, we will be discussing the Floe story telling tool in two different contexts: learning reflections site, and "La Planeta es la Escuela". The description of the two contexts follow: The goal of the Floe learning reflections site is to use the story telling tool to gather stories about unique learning styles. We plan to hold one or more sessions where we will gather stories from a broad range of participants while at the same time collecting feedback about the tool. The current version is here: https://stories.floeproject.org/ Another version of the storytelling tool is being created for our upcoming visit with Karisma, one of our SJRK partners, in Medellín Colombia. We are adding design elements from their version of the project, “La Planeta es la Escuela” or “The Planet is the School”, to the existing storytelling tool. | |
| Design Guides Activities: Part 2 | Dana, Sepideh | May 2 | |
Sidewalk Project and Storytelling Tool | May 1 | For the design crit Tuesday May 1st, we will be talking about the Sidewalk Project, and if time permits the Story Telling tool. Relevant links:
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| Speculative Storytelling | Andre Baynes | April 25 | Video Recording |
Neurodevelopmental citizen research | Aaron Engelberg | April 24 | For the design crit Tuesday April 24th, Aaron Engelberg will be sharing about a citizen science project for neurodevelopmental research. Attached is a ZIP file of PDFs related to the project including some wireframes and a project description. |
| Community Engagement through Comics | Althea Balmes | April 18 | |
| Disability Policy | Rachel Heeb | April 11 | Rachel Heeb will be joining us to talk about her research on disability policy through an occupational lens. Rachel’s dissertation can be downloaded from the Meeting Notes wiki page. |
Inclusive Combination Locks | Claire | April 10 | For the design crit Tuesday April 10th, Claire will be sharing designs for inclusive combination locks. |
| Design Guides Activities | Dana, Sepideh | April 4 | Design Guides |
ILDH restructuring | Sepideh | April 3 | For the design crit Tuesday April 3rd, Sepideh will be sharing designs for restructuring the content on the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook (or ILDH). |
| Onboarding for learning with online systems | Alana Callan | Mar 28 | Description: New Problem Statement:Technology is an affordance that can be used to support and propagate learning in our busy, connected, global world. But how do you design for effective and engaging online learning to occur? You design it well and provide a ‘map’ so that the learner knows:
This design framework allows the instructor/faculty member/ or teacher to facilitate learning, encourage active participation, and a map of how the students will successfully arrive at the end and what they will have accomplished or experienced along the way. Proposed Outputs of My Research Project:A framework for developing critical wayfinding/navigation system that supports learners (in higher education, specifically at the college level) when they enter a learning environment (Course page, Course site, virtual environment, etc.,) and need to know where they are, where they are going, what they will be doing along the way, and how they get to the end successfully. The initial conceptualization of this project is to create a course wayfinding system or map that is built based on the learning outcomes of the course or the competencies being assessed, the organization of the course in terms of content, activities, and assessments (evaluation). Courses could then be mapped to the program outcomes or competencies. Programs could be mapped to further educational or experience pathways, career paths, or other options that could be explored by the learner. This project will focus on designing a course wayfinding/mapping framework, future research may take this further should I seek research funding or other learning opportunities that will allow me to continue with this concept development. Proposed Outcomes of Research ProjectDesign a course blueprint template that helps the content expert (teacher, faculty or instructor) align content, activities and assessment to the learning outcomes of the course. This course blueprint will be used to design a wayfinding/mapping system that will support the learner’s journey through the course and provide them with the overview and the directions they need to successfully travel to the end of the course. |
Co-design/creation discussion | Mar 27 | For the design crit Tuesday March 27th, we will be reflecting upon the co-design and co-creation activities we have done in the recent past. We hope to uncover interesting ideas, celebrate successes, and learn from our experiences. | |
| Introduction to Makers Making Change | Stewart Russel | Mar 21 | Description:
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| Critical Perspectives on the Blockchain | Edward Buchi | Mar 14 | Description:
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LipSync sip and puff "mouse" | Stewart Russel | Mar 13 | For the design crit Tuesday March 13th, Stewart from Neil Squire Society’s Makers Making Change initiative will be sharing about LipSync, an assistive technology enabling mouse-like interaction via sip and puff. Please see the attached forwarded email from Stewart for additional details on LipSync. Relevant links: |
| IDeA Competition 2018 | Brian Carriere | Mar 7 | https://www.univcan.ca/programs-and-scholarships/innovative-designs-accessibility-competition/ Brian Carriere, from Universities Canada, will be coming in to talk about the upcoming IDeA competition. Afterwards we’ll continue the community meeting with a group discussion about Inclusive Design. |
| Co-creating 8 80 Cities: How to meaningfully engage communities to build inclusive cities | Ryan O'Connor | Feb 28 | Description:
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PhET Keyboard prototype, and Wordpress editor | Jon Hung | Feb 27 | For the design crit Tuesday February 27th, I will be sharing about a new keyboard prototype for Faraday's Law, and also the new opportunities for Floe authoring tools in the new Gutenberg editor for Wordpress. Relevant links:
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| Digital health surveillance & Digital rights | Ellie Marshall | Feb 21 | |
Pattern Languages | Simon | Feb 7 | An introduction to Pattern Languages and discussion of a Pattern Language for Infusion. |
| How to design a tool for designers? | Shahab Pourtalebi | Jan 31 | Meeting Notes |
UI Options syllabification | Justin | Jan 30 | For the design crit Tuesday January 30, Justin will be talking about the syllabification tool for UI Options (and the browser extension). This topic is tentative as it depends on a demo being ready in time. |
| Pooling and Sharing Inclusive Design Resources | IDRC | Jan 24 | Relevant links:
Description: Good afternoon. Just a reminder that next week’s Community Meeting is about Pooling and Sharing Inclusive Design Resources presented by the IDRC. We will be taking the time to compile a list of resources that either we have created, or have helped us and have referenced a lot in our projects. We’d also appreciate if you could share any resources that you may think would be helpful or relevant to the Fluid Community. |
Storytelling tool | Dana | Jan 23 | For the design crit Tuesday January 23rd, Dana will be talking about some new designs for the Social Justice Repair Kit storytelling tool. |
| Innovative regulatory instruments that inform the Accessibility Ecosystem | Alastair McEwin / Jutta | Jan 17 | |
Bodies in Translation Knowledge Platform | Lindsay | Jan 16 | For the design crit Tuesday January 16th, Lindsay will be talking about the Bodies in Translation Knowledge Platform (rescheduled originally from January 9th). |
| Blockchain to Design | Edward Buchi | Jan 10 | Description:
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Fluid Project GSOC Brainstorming | Jan 9 | We’ll be brainstorming potential projects for submission to this year’s Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ |
2017 Topics
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UI Options+ icons | Dec 19 | For the design crit Tuesday Dec. 19, we will be talking about iconography for the UI Options+ Chrome plugin. | |
| Wheelmap / Big IDeA | Jon Hung / Holger Dieterich | Dec 13 | |
| Using Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to increase personal knowing | Jasna Schwind | Dec 6 | 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). Outcomes:
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| Creative Commons Canada | Kelsey Merkley | Nov 29 | Description:
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Learning Differences article review | Nov 28 | 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 | Zvia Admon | Nov 22 | Description:
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Faraday's Law keyboard interaction | Nov 21 | 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. | |
Captivating Places: The impact of inclusive design on inclusive place attachment | Parinaz Mizban | Nov 15 | Description:
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Biodiversity Research and Climate Monitoring on Galiano Island, BC | Andrew Simon | Nov 8 | Special time: 1 - 2:30pm ET 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 | Nov 7 | 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 | Alan / Sepideh | Nov 1 | Alan and Sepideh will be leading a discussion on Multilingual Support – Considerations for Design and Development. Please see demo below. Description:
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Inclusive design of civic engagement tools | Eloisa | Oct 31 | 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 | Lisa | Oct 25 | 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:
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| OwnCloud | Oct 24 | 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 | Age-CAP team: Eryn and Jacob | Oct 18 | Description:
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| Community Meeting dissemination | Justin | Oct 4 | 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 | Sepideh | Oct 3 | 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 | Alex Dunaevsky | Sep 27 | 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 | Ather | Sep 20 |
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PhET Keyboard Help Dialog | Sep 19 | 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 | Sepideh | Sep 13 | 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 | Sep 12 | 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: | |
Limits of design | Peter Fuzesi | Sep 6 | Description:
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| UI Options content simplification | Sep 5 | 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 | Aug 30 | We will be doing an offsite visit/tour of iDAPT. Location: 550 University Ave, Toronto. Innovations gallery on first floor | |
Storytelling tool | Aug 22 | 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 | Aug 15 | 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 | Maria / Pina | July 26 | 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 | Lisa | July 25 | 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 | Justin | July 19 | The goal is to start piecing together a timeline of the projects that the IDRC/ATRC has been involved in. |
| Redesigning the Fluid Build site | July 18 | For the design crit On July 18, we will be talking about redesigning/organizing the Fluid build site. | |
| Inclusive Wayfinding | Cheryl Giraudy | July 12 | |
The Social Justice Repair Kit | July 11 | 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 | |
| MyL3 | June 27 | 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: | |
| PhET Energy Skate Park Basics | June 20 | 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:
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| Content simplification for UI Options browser plugin | June 13 | For the design crit on June 13, we will be talking about content simplification for the UI Options browser plugin. | |
The challenge of inclusive digital design pedagogy. | Jaime Cortés Fandiño | July 5 | |
| ihabilitation | Tom Dekker | June 7 | 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 | June 6 | 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:
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| Critical Analysis and Disability | Kathryn Benoit | May 31 | Description:
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| Multimodal Design Patterns for Inclusion & Accessibility | Alan | May 30 | 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 | Jennifer Domise | May 24 | |
| Workshop on creating Infusion Components making (featuring the Nexus) | Alan/Simon | May 3 | |
| UI Options in mobile | May 2 | For the design crit on May 2, we will be taking a look at the updated UI Options, specifically the use of the left/right arrows in the mobile view. Relevant links:
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| Inclusive Design OER | Grace and Kathy | Apr 26 | Grace and Kathy will be demoing and discussing their progress on the Inclusive Design OER. |
| FACIL'iti web accessibility service / webapp | For the design crit on April 25, we will be taking a look at the FACIL'iti web accessibility service / webapp. It shares functionality with UI Options, and the Prefs Framework. Relevant links:
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| Paper Folding for Design | Lisa | Apr 19 | Description: This week’s community meeting will be on the topic of paper folding. We will watch the film Between the Folds which explores the art of modern origami, from inventive new techniques in the arts to practical applications in the sciences. Following the film we will play with paper folding ourselves, learning a few basic techniques from Paul A. Jackson’s book Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form. |
| Introduction to Concepts and Practice of Infusion II | Alan/Simon | Apr 12 | Followon from March 8th meeting Current version of tutorial at http://www.alanharnum.ca/infusion-docs/infusion/development/tutorial-developerIntroduction/DeveloperIntroductionToInfusionFramework-OpeningRemarks.html |
| Fluid 10 year Anniversary | Group | Apr 5 | Description: Sunday April 2, 2017 is the 10 year anniversary of the Fluid Project, to commemorate this milestone we’ll be spending time at the community meeting to reflect back upon the past 10 years. Please come and share your memories and thoughts on your time involved in Fluid or just to hear about the project's history. |
| Review of OER section for SNOW | Laura Burnett / Julia | Mar 29 | Description: “Review of Open Educational Resources section for SNOW We will be reviewing the upcoming Open Educational Resources (OER) section for the SNOW website. The SNOW website is an online resource on inclusive education and technology. The primary target audience is educators, but the site is likely also used by parents, students, education team members, and other interested individuals. The goal of the OER section is to provide educators information about OERs (e.g. what they are, why they are beneficial) and discuss how they support or can support inclusion (including sharing some of the tools and resources developed by the IDRC’s floe project)." |
| Privacy Story Builder | Mar 28 | For the design crit on March 28, we will be discussing the prototype for the Privacy Story Builder. Relevant links: Note, this prototype is not fully accessible. You can navigate between screenswith keyboard by using the navigation below the prototype. However, you can not use keyboard to interact with the prototype screens themselves. It is also not screen reader accessible. | |
| Show and Discuss: Short Films | Justin | Mar 22 | Watched:
Others:
We will be having a show and discuss of short films selected by you. Please send me your suggestions for films that will expand our thinking and helps us delve deeper into the topics that we work on. Depending on time we’ll aim to select a few to watch and discuss. |
| How co-design fits into the landscape of other design and research practices | Mar 21 | For today's design crit, we will be watching a presentation by Liz Sanders describing how co-design fits into the landscape of other design and research practices. Here is the link: https://vimeo.com/11278500 The video is just under 40 minutes long. | |
| Hypothes.is: annotations and accessibility | Jeremy Dean and Jon Udell | Mar 15 | Jeremy Dean and Jon Udell from Hypothes.is will be joining to talk about Hypothes.is and in particular leading a discussion about annotations and accessibility. |
| UI Options redesign | Mar 14 | For tomorrow's March 14 design crit we will again be talking about the on-going UI Options redesign. We will be discussing the styling for the toggles, the panel tab, and the new design for the steppers to group them together. | |
| "Fantastic Infusion and Where to Find It" | Alan/Antranig | Mar 8 | Developer Introduction to Core Concepts of Infusion Documentation (temporary location while PR is outstanding) Developer Introduction to Core Concepts of Infusion pull Alan and Antranig will be leading us through an introduction / overview of the core concepts of Infusion. |
| UI Options number stepper redesign | Mar 7 | For tomorrow's (March 7) design crit we will be talking about the design and implementation of the number stepper for the UI Options redesign. Relevant links:
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| Changes from Aria 1.0 to 1.1 | Joseph | Mar 1 |
Joseph will be talking about the changes in the ARIA spec from version 1.0 to 1.1. |
| On-off toggle for UI Options mobile redesign | Feb 28 | For tomorrow's design crit we will be talking about the on-off toggle for UI Options mobile redesign. Here are some of the issues: 1. How should the toggle be implemented? Is it a check-box, a button with an depressed state, or a set of 2 radio buttons? 2. Is it possibly confusing that the visual representation of the component does not match it's implementation? This is an issue for low-vision users with screen readers - the AT reads "check-box" but visually it may not look like one. 3. ... and other design and implementation issues that will astonish and amaze you! | |
| Wearable Computing, DIY electronics, and Making | Kate Hartman | Feb 15 | Description: Kate Hartman is an Associate Professor in the Digital Futures program as well as Director of the Social Body Lab, a research group focused on body-centric technologies in the social context. In this conversation she’ll provide an overview of the lab and its recent projects as well as some thoughts on wearable computing, DIY electronics, and tools and structures for helping people make. |
| Brainstorming accessible web annotation tool | Feb 14 | For tomorrow's design crit, we will be brainstorming ideas and strategies for creating an accessible web annotation tool. This design issue is inspired by a similar issue Hypothes.is is having with their accessible text annotation tool. This email thread in the fluid-work mailing list may provide additional context: "How to make arbitrary text selections in a screen reader render visually". | |
| a11y tree | Joseph | Feb 8 |
The topic for this week's community meeting (Feb 8) is the Accessibility Tree and its relationship to WAI-ARIA. There will be some hands-on activities and if you want to participate, you will need to download and install a couple of things. For demonstration purposes, I am focusing on FireFox's DOM Inspector plug-in and, to a lesser extent, Apple's Accessibility Inspector. There are other inspectors for different OSes and I'll mention them, but I won't be providing detailed instructions on installing them. For FireFox's DOM Inspector, you need to install two plugins, in the following order:
The DOM Inspector is a tool within Web Developer. It is accessed via Web Developer's "Tools" toolbar button, which posts a menu containing a "DOM Inspector" menu item.
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| Sustainable Tourism Inclusive Design: Management and Marketing Toolkit and Safety and Guide Training Resources | Emily McIntyre | Feb 1 | Description: Universal design adapted to adventure tourism
Three dimensions of Inclusive Design applied to adventure tourism
Sustainability Discussion
Toolkit and Manual Development
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| Using Small Computers (C.H.I.P., Arduino, Raspberry Pi) | Simon | Jan 25 | Slides: Small Computers Community Workshop Jan 2017.pdf Pre-workshop notes: Small Computers Community Workshop January 2017 Description: "We will discuss features of the CHIP, how to get started with it, and compare it to other single board computers, and micro-controllers, such as the Arduino and Raspberry Pi” See also:
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| Inclusive Design OER | Kobi and David | Jan 18 | https://github.com/DavidC123/oer-inclusive-design - GitHub Page https://cdn.rawgit.com/DavidC123/oer-inclusive-design/8e2ad7a7/home-page.html - New Raw git page https://rawcdn.githack.com/DavidC123/oer-inclusive-design/a077ff508350136de13f81703fd4ca7d9390a6b1/guides-page.html - Old Raw git Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tArsmkiXi1EJWn8sV7Jw7KE6LxpD9KvAc7PWdWrSJgw/edit# - Project plan Doc David and Kobi ( co-op students at the IDRC ), will be presenting their latest work on an Inclusive Design OER. Back on December 7, 2016 they led a design crit during the community meeting, presenting an initial version of the Inclusive Design OER. They have taken the feedback from that meeting and iterated on their design and implementation. |
| Preparation for BIGIDeA | Lisa, Jon | Jan 17 | For tomorrow’s Community Design Crit, Lisa and I will be working through an inventory of IDRC resources as part of a ramp-up for work related to the Business Innovation Guide for Inclusive Design and Accessibility (or “BIGIDeA”). For more information on this project, you can find the information on the Certified for Access website. Since this be somewhat of a working meeting, feel free to bring your own work, and join the discussion as you see fit. |
| GSoC 2017 Brainstorming | Justin | Jan 11 |
2016 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Post Infusion 2.0 Review | Dec 21 | Despite the fact that we haven’t officially announced the release of Infusion 2.0 ( still a few PRs left for the Infusion-Docs ), we’d like to organize a Post Infusion 2.0 review. Where we can talk about some of the TODOs identified while pushing towards the release and other future plans for Infusion. Because there is no scheduled community meeting for next week, we can make use of the time to hold our review session. Date: Dec 21, 2016 Time: 2:30 - 4:00pm ET Below I’ve seeded some topics that I’ve been compiling over the last couple of months. Infusion
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| Social Justice Repair Kit | Dec 20 | For tomorrow's design crit, we will be brainstorming ideas for the Social Justice Repair Kit. If there is time, I would like to follow-up on the PhET Energy Skate Park text description exercise from 2 weeks ago. | |
| Pair/Mob Programming - Part 2 | Alan / Michelle | Dec 14 | Remote Programming Instructions Alan and Michelle will be leading us through part 2 of the pair and mob programming session. While this is aimed more at developers, it should still be useful and interesting to anyone joining, and will cover process and collaboration techniques. Please see the “Cloud9 instance for pair programming community meeting this Wednesday” e-mail thread for details on how to remotely participate in the paired programming. |
| Inclusive Making / Hacking | Dec 13 | For tomorrow's design crit, we will be discussing the draft article for “Inclusive Making / Hacking” for the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook. The draft can be seen here: “Inclusive Making and Hacking”. | |
| Inclusive Design OER - Design Crit | David / Kobi | Dec 7 | https://github.com/DavidC123/oer-inclusive-design - Github Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tArsmkiXi1EJWn8sV7Jw7KE6LxpD9KvAc7PWdWrSJgw/edit - project plan, google docs. https://rawgit.com/DavidC123/oer-inclusive-design/master/intro-page.html - raw git user page David and Kobi ( co-op students at the IDRC ), will be presenting their current work on an Inclusive Design OER. This will be structured similar to the design crits we typically have on Tuesday mornings. |
| Privacy Needs and Preferences: Part 2 | Dec 5 | For tomorrow's design crit, we will be talking again about Privacy Needs and Preferences. For additional information on this topic, please see the (Floe) Privacy Needs and Preferences wiki page. | |
| Accessibility in MOOCs: The current state and next steps | Francisco Iniesto | Nov 30 | Abstract: “Providing accessible Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to offer flexibility of learning and benefits to all. In my research project I will investigate the perceptions and accessibility-related processes of various stakeholders of MOOC platforms such as designers, content providers and accessibility experts. I will also investigate the experiences, constraints and requirements of learners with and without special needs who are already using MOOCs. I will carry out accessibility evaluations of MOOC platforms for their usability and accessibility. These are some of the questions my research is proposing to address: how can MOOCs help learners with special needs to improve their knowledge and skills?; how could the accessibility in MOOCs be improved?; and how could MOOCs resources be adapted to meet the accessibility needs of the learners?” |
| Privacy Needs and Preferences | Nov 29 | For tomorrow's design crit, we will be talking about Privacy Needs and Preferences. For additional information on this topic, please see the (Floe) Privacy Needs and Preferences wiki page. | |
| Hive Toronto: Community Building and Web Literacy | Simona Ramkisson | Nov 23 | Since its first iteration in 2012, Mozilla Hive Toronto Learning Network has emerged as a dynamic force for learning and engagement. A thriving collaboration with 42 youth-serving member organizations across the city, Hive Toronto has engaged more than 3,500 youth and educators in connected learning experiences through funded programs and public events. |
| Design Guide icons / Energy Skate Park PhET sim | Nov 22 | 1. Design Guide icons (see attached PDF). 2. A design exercise to create text descriptions for track shapes in the Energy Skate Park PhET sim. For the icon discussion, I encourage those attending to take a look at the PDF before the meeting. | |
| Pair/Mob Programming | Michelle / Alan | Nov 16 | https://github.com/waharnum/pair-programming-meeting Alan and Michelle will be leading us through a pair and mob programming session. While this is aimed more at developers, it should still be useful and interesting to anyone joining, and will cover process and collaboration techniques. |
| Design Guide icons / Documentation workflow / Docs template | Nov 15 | For tomorrow’s design crit, we will be talking about a few things related to the way we do documentation at the IDRC. The topics include: 1. Design Guide icons (see attached PDF) 2. Documentation workflow with Infusion releases (related to this JIRA) 3. Docs template improvements (see a working preview on gh-pages) | |
| Douglas C. Engelbart's 1968 demo - Video ( last 30 minutes ) + Discussion | Justin / Michelle | Nov 9 |
We’ll finish watching Douglas C. Engelbart’s 1968 demo video and engaging in a discussion around it. We may also watch related videos and interviews as time permits. |
| Nexus project | Simon | Nov 8 | At tomorrow’s design crit Simon will lead us in brainstorming ideas for demos for the Nexus project. |
| Ursula Franklin: The Real World of Technology | Michelle / Dana | Nov 2 | http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845 Michelle and Dana will be leading a discussion and presenting Part 1 of Ursula Franklin’s lecture “The Real World of Technology”. |
| Visualization of Complex Medical Data using Next-Generation Holo-graphic Techniques | Michael Page ( Phase Lab OCADU ) | Oct 26 | Michael Page, from OCADU’s Phase Lab will be coming to the IDRC to talk and demonstrate Visualization of Complex Medical Data using Next-Generation Holo-graphic Techniques. It is recommended to attend in person, if possible. Please note that this will be held at a special time ( 10 am ET ). Description: Almost all medical imaging takes the form of 3D data sets. This data is most often viewed in 2D or what we like to think of as 2.5 D, the flat screen computer screen. Hologram means "whole image" What if a surgeons and medical workers could hold a life-sized, 3D, auto-stereoscopic image of the human brain and examine it up-close. PHASE Lab is embarking on a 3 year long research project to develop the technology to print DICOM data using a new high definition digital holographic process. |
| Tasking of remediation of docs site / Design Guides Icons | Oct 25 | For tomorrow’s design crit we will be discussing: 1. Tasking of remediation of docs sites in time for OpenEd 2016 happening next week 2. Felipe’s work on Design Guides icons | |
| Douglas C. Engelbart's 1968 demo - Video | Justin / Alan | Oct 19 | http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/ We’ll be watching a video of Douglas C. Engelbart’s 1968 demo where he demoed the mouse, amongst many other things. |
Applying Market Research and Analysis Practices | Jim Tobias | Oct 5 | Description: How widely-accepted market research and analysis practices can (and should) be usefully applied to our domain. This would include topics like value chain analysis, market size estimates, competitive alternatives, sustainability/willingness to pay, and individual vs. enterprise customers. |
| Disabled web elements | Oct 4 | For tomorrow’s design crit we will be discussing strategies to deal with disabled web elements (like buttons and links) and WCAG compliance. | |
| GSoC Projects Discussion | GSoC Students | Sep 28 | Data Visualizations: Responsive Music UI Controls: Discovery Cat: UIO/Learner Options: Will feature the Fluid’s GSoC 2016 students summarizing and discussing their projects. |
| UI options redesign / Inclusive Design Toolkit | Sep 27 | Tomorrow’s design crit will continue the discussion on the UI options redesign, as well as a quick discussion about a “Inclusive Design Toolkit” landing page. | |
Site deployment tasks | Justin | Sep 21 | Website Deployment Checklist |
| Unifying UIO mobile and desktop experiences | Sep 20 | For the September 20th design crit we will be discussing design issues related to unifying the desktop and mobile UI Options experience. The existing UI Options mobile design can be found on the Mobile UIO Design wiki page, and the desktop version can be seen here in this UI Options demo. | |
| Infusion 2.0 release prep ( pre-testing, discussions, and etc.) | Justin | Sep 14 | Infusion 2.0 Release Status |
| Sonification Primer - Video ( Part 2 ) | Video / Jon | Sep 7 | |
| Sonification Primer - Video ( Part 1 ) | Video / Jon | Aug 31 | |
| Computer Studies in Public High School | Pak Wong | Aug 24 | Description: I have been a TDSB computer studies and mathematics teacher since 2008. Currently, I am an Assistant Curriculum Leader for School Wide Resources and Innovations at Northview Heights Secondary School. My job includes overseeing the Computer Studies department, the SHSM - ICT program, and implementing IT needs of my school. |
| Discussion on Accessible Gaming | Godfrey and Tim | Aug 17 | Description: The goal is to bring together the perspectives of multiple stakeholders such as developers, designers, end-users, and occupational therapy students to inform the process of assessing and making games accessible. The part of the workshop will focus on a particular game to structure the discussions. We have created a short survey to choose the game we will focus on: The games on the survey were chosen because they are easily accessible through the web browser or through the appstore of mobile devices. |
| IDRC website / UI Options for mobile | Aug 16 | This week’s community design crit Lisa will be sharing some work about the new IDRC website, specifically the design of the navigation. For the design crit tomorrow, we will be working with this Googledoc to gather notes and feedback on different site navigation options: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RJbGYz0X90pW_tsPaiOChKQV_m3asoTYUPR-2cE4uI4/edit?usp=sharing We will also be talking about UI Options for mobile - specifically whether we should implement the current mobile design, or do some additional design work. This discussion will also involve taking a look at the work Stan has been doing for GSOC. | |
| Introduction to Design | Dana and Sepideh | Aug 10 | Description: "In this week’s community meeting, we are going to discuss some of the Principles and Practices that we have included in the Inclusive Design Guide with particular focus on the challenges that we encounter when using/applying them. We’d like to acknowledge these challenges and brainstorm some solutions. In a number of cases, we have defined some brief activities related to the principles, and we are planning to work through these activities as part of the process." |
| Inclusive Design Guide | Aug 9 | This week’s design crit will be discussing the Inclusive Design Guide. | |
| Discussion: Interactive Touch Inputs with Screen Readers | Jon / Justin | Aug 3 | Discussion: PhET Sims: Other: Jon Hung and I will be leading a discussion about Interactive Touch Inputs with Screen Readers. While working on interactive simulations with PhET we have found some issues with touch interactions (e.g. drag and drop) work on touch devices when a screen reader is in use. We are hoping to discuss some of these issues as well as come up with potential solutions and work arounds. |
| Introduction and Discussion of the GPII Nexus | Simon | July 27 | Simon Bates will be Introducing the Nexus and leading a discussion about ideas for ways to make use of it. The GPII Nexus Integration Technology allows the interconnection of arbitrary sources and sinks of state via HTTP and WebSockets. The Nexus is still in development and can be found in Simon’s GitHub repo https://github.com/simonbates/nexus |
| Energy Skate Park PhET sim | July 26 | Today we will be talking about the Energy Skate Park PhET sim. | |
| Self assessment strategy for measuring and tracking software skills like collaboration and creativity | Julia / Evangelos Kapros | July 20 | |
| IDRC website | July 19 | For today’s community design crit at 10am ET, Lisa will be sharing some recent mockups of the IDRC website, as well as selections for typography and colour. | |
| Discussion of use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac: Continued from June 22nd | Julia Foster | July 13 | Julia Foster will be leading a discussion on use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac. This is a continuation from the June 22 Community Meeting. It will walk through the accessibility features in Windows and brainstorms on who would use them, in what context, for what purpose (i.e. condition/function, environment, activity/task being done, etc.). |
| First discovery game | July 12 | ||
| Discussion: Screen Reader Strategies | Jon Hung | July 6 | Discussion Guide and Notes (google doc) Surfing the Internet with JAWS and MAGic! Jon Hung will be leading a discussion on Screen Reader Strategies. We will be looking over http://www.heydonworks.com/article/responses-to-the-screen-reader-strategy-survey posted on heydonworks.com. |
| Discussion: Working with students with Developmental Disabilities and how they use technology / sharing IDRC projects | Dragan Pausak / Michelle D'Souza | June 29 | Dragan Pausak, from Applewood School, will be joining us to discuss working with students with Developmental Disabilities and how they use technology. It will also be a time where we can discuss projects we are working on and how they may be useful for their students. |
| Discussion of use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac | Julia Foster | June 22 | Julia Foster will be leading a discussion on use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac. |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: "Self: The Movie" | Video and Group Discussion | June 15 | We’ll be continuing our "Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing” series by watching “Self: The Movie”. “Self: The Movie” is about the Self programming language. |
| Inclusive Design Mapping Tool exercise | Jutta | June 1 | |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: "Twine" | Alan | May 25 | Presentation / Demo |
| Requirement Mapping ( Petals & Flowers ) ( Staring at 3pm ) | Jutta | May 18 | Requirement Mapping (Petals & Flowers) Jutta Treviranus will be discussing the “Petals & Flowers” approach to requirement mapping. |
| Design Guidelines / Inclusive Design Cards website design | Dana | May 9 | Today’s community design crit will be about the Design Guidelines / Inclusive Design Cards website design. |
| Introduction to Programming | Alan | May 4 | Workshop Twine I will be talking in hopefully comprehensible terms about foundational concepts (technical and sociological) of computer programming, possibly doing some programming live with the entire group, and maybe showing off this board game: http://www.thinkfun.com/products/code-master/ |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: Logo | Antranig | April 27 | This week's community workshop will feature Antranig Basman presenting the next part of our ongoing series on "Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing", on Logo. Antranig will be talking generally about Logo and its goals, as well as the specific Logo he implemented that became the engine for http://mathsphere.org/ |
| Metatecture | Steve | April 20 | |
| Wiki Gardening | Fluid Team | April 13 | The upcoming Community Meeting ( April 13, 2016 ), will be more of a working meeting where we’ll be doing clean up of the Fluid wiki. This is the first action item identified from the March 16, 2016 community meeting “Discuss about on boarding into the Fluid community” (Notes). Specifically we’ll want to collect and clarify all of the information on the wiki related to getting involved, community practices and etc. |
| Reserved for OCADU Vision & Mission Project | March 30 | ||
| SEO | Katya Bovykina | March 23 | Slides |
| Discuss about onboarding into the Fluid community | Justin | March 16 | We will have a discussion about how to facilitate onboarding into the community. Please come with examples, anecdotes, and etc of good practices for this that you have seen in other communities. Also think about your own experience joining the community or bringing others in, and reflect on what did and didn’t work. |
| APCP Self-assessment dashboard | Jutta | March 9 | |
| IDRC Web Site Design: ( site map ) | Sepideh, Dana, Jon | March 2 | Notes |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: Super Mario Maker | Simon | February 24 | Super Mario Maker: Nintendo's essence, in your hands by Christian Nutt (Gamasutra) Moneyball, but for Mario—the data behind Super Mario Maker popularity (Ars Technica) Super Mario Maker Bookmark (Nintendo web catalogue of courses) Mario Maker Mornings: Part 83 [Don't Underestimate 8-Year-Old Kids] |
IDRC Web Site Design: (next steps, who will do what, goals, and etc.) | Michelle | February 17 | |
| Start Focused Fluid Infusion 2.0 release testing. | Justin/Michelle | February 10 | |
| Communication in Open Source Communities: How we can make things better | Justin / Michelle | February 3 | Fluid Project Communication Synchrospetive |
| Communication in Open Source Communities | Justin / Michelle | January 27 | Fluid Project Communication Synchrospetive |
| GSoC 2016 project brainstorming | Justin | January 20 | |
| eHealth and Digital Services Innovation in Sweden | Vivian Vimarlund | January 13 |
2015 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Inclusive Statistics continued | Kevin | December 9 | Inclusive Statistics.pptx |
| Inclusive Statistics | Kevin | December 2 | Inclusive Statistics.pptx |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: Smalltalk and the Ideas of Alan Kay | Simon | November 25 |
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| Accessible lightbulb socket project | Philippe | November 11 | |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: HyperCard | Dana / Charles Silverman | November 4 | |
| Canine Therapy for Literacy Development | Sue | October 28 | |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: Bret Victor | Colin | October 21 | |
| a11y Assessment | Lisa | October 7 | A11y Assessment .pptx |
| Design Challenge | Justin | September 23 | Design Challenge - Distracted Driving.pdf |
| Infusion 2.x ( new features, best practices) | Antranig | September 16 | |
Community Meeting Brainstorming | Justin | September 2 | |
| Ansible playbooks and roles | Giovanni, Alan | August 26 | |
| Introduction to Lisp and programs as data | Simon | August 19 | |
Design Critique - Aftercare mobile app | Kaye | August 12 | New user flow - https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/E43LWRCZ3#/screens Dashboard - |
| Unhangout project | Katherine / Srishti | August 5 | Unhangout |
| ILDH - Testing | Jon | July 29 |
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| Mapathon - axsmap | David Pereyra | July 22 | AHA-Mapathon |
| Intro to Infusion | Antranig / Colin | July 8 | Wiki: What is Infusion Etherpad: Infusion_Community_Meeting_8-7-15 |
| Self Voicing - features, interaction with screen readers (e.g. First Discovery Tool run with a screen reader also running). | Group | June 24 | |
AHA - Mapathon / Audio on the web and Flocking | David / Colin | June 17 | AHA-MapathonFlocking |
Establishing a criteria for evaluating command line a11y assessment tools | Avtar | June 10 | Projects that we might want to look at for reference: |
Inclusive Branding / UIO Mobile / UIO a11y Review | Feriyal / Group / Jan | May 20 | Sustainable Inclusive Branding |
| Ansible, Vagrant, and you | Avtar | May 13 | Documentation and examples |
| 'AccessMakers' prototype inclusive design workshop | John Willis (from the MDes program) | May 6 | Presentation |
| P4A review followup | Colin | Apr 29 | |
| Infusion Framework changes | Bosmon | Apr 22 | |
| Infusion-docs site QA | Anastasia / Simon | Apr 15 | |
| Ergonomics | Julia | Apr 8 | |
| TTS in Infusion / Infusion-docs | Justin / Anastasia | Apr 1 | |
| Sonification Brainstorming - Pie Charts | Lisa / Sepideh | Mar 25 | |
| Mobile a11y | Yura | Mar 18 | http://yzen.github.io/mobile-accessibility/ |
| Javascript primer/intro | group | Mar 11 | http://eloquentjavascript.net |
| Outside-in / P4A | Sam | Feb 25 | |
| Accessible Assessment Discussion | Sepideh | Feb 18 | Workshop Presentation: Accessible Standardized Testing Wiki Page: Standardized Testing |
| GSoC 2015 project brainstorming | Justin | Feb 11 | Google Summer of Code 2015 with the Fluid Project |
| Sonification | Lisa | Feb 4 | |
| DSpace Brainstorm | Group | Jan 28 | Developer Space Whiteboard notes |
| AT demos | Julia / Bert | Jan 21 | |
| P4A Designs | Sepideh / Lisa | Jan 14 | Workshop.pdf |
| Vidyo API | ET Group | Jan 7 |
2014 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| P4A Designs | Sepideh / Lisa | Dec 10 | Platform for Economic Inclusion |
| Infusion Docs | Doc Team | Dec 3 | Infusion Documentation Plan |
| PHeT Keyboard Playfulness | Jon | Nov 26 | PhET Sim |
| Stylus | Cindy and Justin | Nov 19 | |
| PGA Designs | Dana | Nov 12 | |
| Mobile UIO Design | Jon / Dana | Nov 5 | |
| GSoC 2014 Mentors Summit | Justin | Oct 29 | |
| Design Brainstorm - Authoring ePub 3 | Jon | October 22 | |
| Design Brainstorm - Badges | Dana & Jess | October 21 | |
| Meet with Phet | Jon / Dana | October 15 | |
| PGA Design/Sketches | Dana / Anastasia | October 8 | Discussed the idea of a pre-tool and the first discovery tool |
| Doc Work | Dana | October 1 | Went over current styling of the Infusion-Docs site |
| Doc Work | Doc Team | September 24 | Notes |
| Doc Work | Doc Team | September 17 | Priorities:
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| Common Terms Registry Design Review | Dana | September 10 | |
| Visit Prep | FLOE Team | September 3 | |
| FLOE Demo run through | FLOE Team | August 27 | |
| Design Discussion | Joanna | August 20 | |
| Doc Work | August 6 | Infusion Documentation Plan | |
| Doc work / JIRA cleanup | July 30 | 1.5 Cleanup Filter | |
| Infusion Docs Work | Docs Team | July 23 | doc site designs |
| Kettle | Antranig | July 16 | Notes on Kettle |
| Doc work for Infusion 1.5 | Doc Team | July 9 | Infusion Documentation Plan |
| Doc work - Discuss minimum required for Infusion 1.5 | Doc Team | July 2 | Infusion Documentation Plan |
| Feedback Designs | Joanna | June 25 | Wireframes |
| Demo restructuring / Doc sprint | Justin / Doc Team | June 18 | http://fluid.2324889.n4.nabble.com/Documentation-decisions-td9105.html |
| Doc sprint | Doc Team | June 11 | |
| Inclusive EPUB 3 | Jon | June 4 | Inclusive EPUB 3 Slideshow PDF |
| Infusion 1.5 Documentation sprint | May 28 | ||
| Documentation for Infusion 1.5 (e.g. Infusion Docs repo, deprecation, API changes) | May 21 | ||
| Infusion 1.5 release tasks | Michelle/Justin | May 14 | |
| Infusion 1.5 doc sprint | Doc Team | May 7 | Infusion Documentation Plan |
| Infusion 1.5 Release Prep - Bug Fixing | Justin/Michelle | April 30 | |
| Infusion 1.5 Release Prep - Testing | Justin/Michelle | April 16 | |
| Discuss the Vision of Documentation for Infusion | Anastasia/Michelle | April 9 | |
| Infusion 1.5 Release Prep - Test old JIRAS | Justin/Michelle | April 2 | |
| Infusion 1.5 Release Prep - Review Open Jiras | Justin/Michelle | March 26 | |
| Infusion 1.5 - JIRA review | Michelle | Mar 19 | |
Static Site Generator: Discus criteria for selection | Justin | Mar 12 | Static Site Generators Research |
| Informal Design Review | Dana/Joanna | Mar 5 | |
| CSS Framework exploration | Jon/Anastasia | Feb 26 | |
| CSS Framework Workshop: How to use. | Jon/Anastasia | Feb 19 | |
| Build Tools / Infusion Talk | Justin / Antranig | Feb 12 | Build Docs |
| Informal Design Review | Dana | Feb 5 | |
| Documentation Sprint | Anastasia | Jan 22 | |
| Infusion Best Practices | Antranig | Jan 15 |
2013 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Informal Design Review | Design Team | Dec 04 | |
FSS alternatives | Jon/Johnny | Nov 26 | |
Instructional Demo Discussion and | Anastasia | Nov 20 | |
Doc Sprint | Anastasia | Nov 06 | |
Discuss new API's introduced since 1.4 | Anastasia/Antranig | Oct 30 | API Changes Since 1.4 |
Discussion the Infusion 1.5 release | Michelle/Justin | Oct 23 | |
| Doc Sprint | Anastasia | Oct 16 | |
| New Model Infrastructure | Antranig | Oct 9 | New Notes on the ChangeApplier |
Build Tools - modules | Oct 2 | ||
Continue Discussion on 1.5 Release.
| Justin | Sept 25 | mailing list thread |
IoC and Preference Editor Framework Documentation Sprint | Anastasia | Sept 18 | |
Discussion the Infusion 1.5 release | Michelle/Justin | Sept 11 | |
IoC and Preference Editor Framework Documentation Sprint | Anastasia | Sept 4 | |
Build Tools - packaging (zip files) | Aug 28 | Jira: FLUID-5120 | |
Build Tools - concatenation | Aug 21 | Jira: FLUID-5120 | |
Build Tools - convert to grunt based minify
| Aug 14 | Currently decided to start the grunt based build scripts from scratch | |
Build Tools - convert to grunt based minify | Aug 7 | FLUID-5100 | |
Build Tools - Fix Infusion Builder Unit Tests | July 31 | ||
Build Tools - Remove Maven | July 24 | ||
Planning a new Build tool | Justin | July 17 | |
Buildtools | Yura and Justin | May 1 | |
3D in the browser: exploration | Antranig | April 24 | |
Icon Font: Follow up, recommendations for use | Arash, Heidi, Jon, Justin | April 17 | |
| MDID Brainstorming | Peter Coppin | April 10 | |
UIO demo check-in | UIO Team | Mar 27 | |
Windows 8 - Walkthrough/Tutorial | Jon | Mar 20 | |
Communicating in Open Source Communities | Colin | Mar 13 | |
Discus using font icons (e.g Font Awesome, IcoMoon, symbolset) | Mar 6 | ||
GSoC Project brainstorming | Everyone | Feb 27 | |
"The New Framework And What It Means To You" | Antranig | Feb 20 | |
Movie: Objectified | Feb 13 | ||
Design Session: Visualizing IoC | Feb 6 | ||
Infusion best practices (why, when, how):
| Jan 30 | ||
PHP Overview | Alex & Cindy | Jan 23 | https://github.com/cindyli/php_overview & https://github.com/anvk/php_overview |
How to graphically represent the IoC tree and the connection of components and subcomponents | Everyone | Jan 16 | |
Where should components have their issues tracked | Everyone | Jan 9 | Simplified release testing proposal |
2012 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
jqUnit refactoring - 5: Review | Everyone | Dec 19 | |
jqUnit refactoring - 4 | Everyone | Dec 5 | |
jqUnit refactoring - 3 | Everyone | Nov 21 | |
jqUnit refactoring - 2 | Everyone | Nov 14 | |
ARIA Hidden | Joseph | Nov 7 | |
Code Refactoring - group exercise to try to improve code | Everyone | Oct 31 | |
Designing Website Navigation | Anastasia | Oct 17 | |
Arduino part 2 | Jorge | Sept 26 | |
Arduino part 1 | Jorge | Sept 19 | |
Infusion 1.5 Release - what should it contain? | Colin | Sept 12 | |
Web Usability + Information Architecture | Jon, Anastasia | Sept 5 | |
Vagrant & Puppet | Avtar | Aug 29 | |
Interaction Design - Usability | James | Aug 22 | |
Infusion Testing Sprint | Everyone | Aug 15 | |
UIO Discussion | Aug 8 | ||
JS frameworks | Alex | Aug 1 | Presentation: Power Point |
Informal UIO Chat | Michelle | July 11 | |
Accessibility Toronto Video | July 4 | ||
Processing | James | June 27 | |
Agile development: estimating and velocity (2hrs) | Michelle | June 20 | |
Tecla | Jorge | June 13 | |
Plan min hack-a-thon / code party | everyone | June 6 | |
GPII Demo | Cindy and Yura | May 16 | |
Node.js | Yura | Mar 28 | |
Mobile | Jorge | March 9 (Fri) | |
How ATs work | Bert?/Jorge?/Joseph? | March 2 (Fri) | |
IOC | Antranig and Colin | Feb 15 | |
Illustrator | Joanna | Feb 8 | |
WCAG/ATAG | Jan | Feb 3 (Fri) | |
Decapod Nigerian trip recap | Jon & Justin | Jan 18 | |
Colour-blindness | Lizna and Michelle | Jan. 13 | Presentation: PDF Google Doc MP3 |
GPII technical overview | Colin | Jan 4 |
2011 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Looking forward to Fluid in 2012 | Colin | Dec. 21 | |
Infusion | Colin | Dec. 7 | |
Adobe Photoshop | Joanna | November 23, 2011 | |
javascript, jQuery | Colin | November 16, 2011 | |
Test-driven development | Yura/Michelle | November 9, 2011 | |
Design rationale behind UIO | James | November 2, 2011 |