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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | |
| 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 | Video Recording |
| Looseleaf: CSS for prototyping | Design Crit | Ned | Apr 20, 2021 | |
| Co-design Community of Practice | Workshop | Cheryl | Mar 30, 2021 | |
| Sonification for Balloons and Static Electricity PhET sim | Design Crit | Ashton Morris | Mar 9, 2021 | |
| Artifact Ecologies: What, why, and how? | Workshop | Philip Tchernavskij | Mar 2, 2021 | |
| Co-design Community of Practice | Workshop | Cheryl | Feb 23, 2021 | Video Recording |
| 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 |
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) |
| 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 | |
| Problems Machine Learning can Solve | Workshop | Ted | Apr 1, 2020 | |
| MyL3 | Workshop | Sepideh, Dana, and Philip | Mar 25, 2020 | |
| Designing and Programming with Multiplicity | Workshop | Philip Tchernavskij | Mar 18, 2020 | Meeting Notes |
Skills Development: Remote collaboration strategies | Workshop | Justin | Mar 11, 2020 | Notes (Google Doc) |
| Assessment Process | Workshop | Lorna Lo | Feb 26, 2020 | Video |
| Skills Development: Accessible web design, implementation, and validation tools and techniques | Workshop | Jon Hung | Feb 19, 2020 | Notes (Google doc) |
| UIO Plugin Icon Sketch sharing | Design Crit | Jon Hung | Feb 18, 2020 | Notes (Google Doc) |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| UIO+ plugin icon with dark theme | Design Crit | Justin / Jon | Jan14, 2020 | |
| 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 | |
| Interactive Holograms | Workshop | Michael Carter | Nov 27, 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| Storytelling Tool content authoring | Design Crit | Gregor, Jon, Justin | Nov 12, 2019 | |
| Platform coop co-design “potluck” dry run | Workshop | Cheryl Li | Oct 30, 2019 | |
| Platform Coop co-design potluck dry run | Design Crit | Cheryl, Ned | Oct 29, 2019 | |
| Sketching for Coding to Learn (C2LC) | Design Crit | Daniel | Oct 1, 2019 | C2LC |
| Learning Circles | Workshop | Grif Peterson | Sep 25, 2019 | |
| Sustainable Dev Goals Action Guide | Design Crit | Liam | Sep 24, 2019 | |
| IDRC Website wireframes | Design Crit | Cheryl | Sep 18, 2019 | |
| Strategies for accessible notifications on changed content | Design Crit | Justin, Gregor | Sep 17, 2019 | |
| Inclusive Analytics | Design Crit | Everyone | Aug 20, 2019 | |
| C2LC co-design recap | Workshop | Sepideh, Crystal, Kendra | Aug 7, 2019 | |
| IDRC Website Information Architecture | Design Crit | Cheryl | Aug 6, 2019 | |
"Big Data" and "AI" for Africa's Voices Foundation | Workshop | Luke Church | Jul 31, 2019 | |
Adding new features to UIO Part 2 | Design Crit | Justin | Jul 30, 2019 | |
| ILDH design refresh critique | Design Crit | Caren Watkins | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| Video: Graphic Means | Workshop | Lisa | Jul 17, 2019 | Website |
| Adding new features to UIO | Design Crit | Justin | Jul 16, 2019 | Examples: |
| 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 |
| Usability testing | Design Crit | Cheryl | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| Designing for Contrast Themes | Design Crit | Cheryl | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| Accessibility at TPL | Workshop | Winona McMorrow | May 22, 2019 | Video Recording |
| Feedback for upcoming co-design session | Workshop | Ample Labs | May 15, 2019 | |
| Coordinating and communicating design crits and community workshops | Design Crit | Jon, Gregor, Lisa | May 7, 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| Sign to text / audio | Design Crit | Ade | Apr 16, 2019 | |
| Various topics relating to inclusive design and design management | Workshop | Johan Verstraete | Apr 3, 2019 | |
| National Young Farmers Coalition beta app | Workshop | Lindsey Lusher Shute, Michael Parker, Dan Stone | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| Co-design activities discussion | Design Crit | Sepideh, Cheryl | Mar 26, 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| CBC digital documentary series Red Button | Workshop | Jonathan Jude | Mar 6, 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| Creative Amnesty | Workshop | Claudia McKoy | Feb 20, 2019 | |
| 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 | |
| SEWA Home Beauty Services Coop | Design Crit | Dana | Jan 29, 2019 | |
| Ample Labs: Using technology to empower individuals experiencing homelessness. | Workshop | Cheryl Li, CG Chen, Matt Wong | Jan 23, 2019 | |
| Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Design Crit | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | Jan 22, 2019 | |
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign | Workshop | Francesca (Law & Design Colab) | Jan 16, 2019 | |
Storytelling Tool Demo and Feedback | Design Crit | Sepideh | Jan 15, 2019 | |
| GSoC 2019 Brainstorming | Workshop | Alan, Cindy | Jan 9, 2019 | |
| SJRK Web Accessibility Review | Design Crit | Lisa, Silvia | Jan 2019 |
) mobile layout early iteration of navigation and organization for feedback: 
2018 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| ELIA Font | Byron Johnson, Andrew Chepaitis | Dec 12 | |
| Co-design with SEWA in Ahmedabad, India | Dana and Michelle | Dec 11 | |
| Addressing Institutional Barriers to Access in Financial Systems | Kris Coward | Nov 28 | |
| WCAG 2.1 changes | Lisa | Nov 21 | |
| Prefs Framework | Justin | Nov 14 | |
| "Seeing with Other Eyes" | Lisa | Nov 7 | |
| Design History and Speculative Future of UIO | Alan | Oct 31 | |
| Project Show and Tell | Oct 24 | ||
| GSoC Mentors Summit Debrief | Gregor | Oct 17 | |
| 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 | |
| Documenting Accessibility in Wireframes | Rob Carr | Sep 26 | |
| Connecting Offline Learners to the World's Knowledge | Nicole Comforto | Sep 19 | |
| The Republic of Childhood: Learning from the Future | Neil Wilson | Sep 12 | |
| Creating a Meaningful Involvement Prototype for WCAG Silver | Cybele Sack | Sep 5 | |
| New Inclusive Housing Model - Feedback Session | Chris Zhang / Mohsen Mahjoobnia | Aug 29 | |
| Smart Cities | Gillian / Syeda | Aug 22 | |
| Presentation on GSoC 2018 Projects | GSoC Students | Aug 15 | |
| Designing a way-finding tool for people with cognitive difficulties | Neeta Khanuja | Aug 7 | |
| Inclusive Activities Brainstorming | Jon Hung | Aug 1 | Video Recording |
| Exoskeleton Devices | John Byrne | July 25 | |
| MyData - A human-centered approach to personal data management | Teemu Ropponen | July 18 | |
| 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 |
| Inclusive Design and Frugal Design | Daniel Ura | June 20 | |
| CANCELLED - due to APCP F2F Meeting. | June 13 | ||
| co-op student presentation | co-op students | June 6 | |
| Fable | May 30 | Video Recording | |
| Laboratory Assistive Devices - Collaboration & Distribution | Ronald Soong | May 23 | Meeting Notes |
| Firefox accessibility Inspector, AOM, and etc. | Yura Zenevich | May 16 | |
| New Infusion Framework features | Antranig | May 9 | Documentation pull (pls review) Implementation pull (pls review) Paper (too late to review!) |
| Design Guides Activities: Part 2 | Dana, Sepideh | May 2 | |
| Speculative Storytelling | Andre Baynes | April 25 | Video Recording |
| Community Engagement through Comics | Althea Balmes | April 18 | |
| Disability Policy | Rachel Heeb | April 11 | |
| Design Guides Activities | Dana, Sepideh | April 4 | Design Guides |
| Onboarding for learning with online systems | Alana Callan | Mar 28 | |
| Introduction to Makers Making Change | Stewart Russel | Mar 21 | |
| Critical Perspectives on the Blockchain | Edward Buchi | Mar 14 | |
| IDeA Competition 2018 | Brian Carriere | Mar 7 | https://www.univcan.ca/programs-and-scholarships/innovative-designs-accessibility-competition/ |
| Co-creating 8 80 Cities: How to meaningfully engage communities to build inclusive cities | Ryan O'Connor | Feb 28 | |
| 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 |
| Pooling and Sharing Inclusive Design Resources | IDRC | Jan 24 | Relevant links:
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| Innovative regulatory instruments that inform the Accessibility Ecosystem | Alastair McEwin / Jutta | Jan 17 | |
| Blockchain to Design | Edward Buchi | Jan 10 |
2017 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Wheelmap / Big IDeA | Jon Hung / Holger Dieterich | Dec 13 | |
| Using Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to increase personal knowing | Jasna Schwind | Dec 6 | |
| Creative Commons Canada | Kelsey Merkley | Nov 29 | Meeting Notes |
| The Israeli equal rights for people with disabilities law, its background and regulations | Zvia Admon | Nov 22 | |
Captivating Places: The impact of inclusive design on inclusive place attachment | Parinaz Mizban | Nov 15 | |
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. |
| Multilingual Support – Considerations for Design and Development | Alan / Sepideh | Nov 1 | Meeting Notes |
| Audio Walk - Passing Through | Lisa | Oct 25 | Audio Walk |
| The Development and Evaluation of a Crowdsourced Mobile Application for Rating the Age-Friendliness of Communities | Age-CAP team: Eryn and Jacob | Oct 18 | |
| Community Meeting dissemination | Justin | Oct 4 | Meeting Notes |
| Discussion about making complex interactive content more accessible | Alex Dunaevsky | Sep 27 | Sample Work |
| Inclusion and Innovation Training for Sports and Recreation | Ather | Sep 20 | |
| Learning Differences | Sepideh | Sep 13 | |
Limits of design | Peter Fuzesi | Sep 6 | |
| Tour: iDAPT Centre for Rehabilitation Research | Aug 30 | This is an offsite visit. Location: 550 University Ave, Toronto. Innovations gallery on first floor | |
| AT demos and discussion | Maria / Pina | July 26 | Video Recording |
| 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. |
| Inclusive Wayfinding | Cheryl Giraudy | July 12 | |
The challenge of inclusive digital design pedagogy. | Jaime Cortés Fandiño | July 5 | |
| ihabilitation | Tom Dekker | June 7 | |
| Critical Analysis and Disability | Kathryn Benoit | May 31 | Slides |
| My Career Lab | Jennifer Domise | May 24 | |
| Workshop on creating Infusion Components making (featuring the Nexus) | Alan/Simon | May 3 | |
| Inclusive Design OER | Grace and Kathy | Apr 26 | Site |
| Paper Folding for Design | Lisa | Apr 19 | |
| 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 | map out the work we've done, areas we've explored, groups we've partnered with, and etc. |
| Review of OER section for SNOW | Laura / Julia | Mar 29 | Google Doc |
| Show and Discuss: Short Films | Justin | Mar 22 | Watched:
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| Hypothes.is: annotations and accessibility | Jeremy Dean and Jon Udell | Mar 15 | hypothes.is |
| "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 |
| Changes from Aria 1.0 to 1.1 | Joseph | Mar 1 |
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| Wearable Computing, DIY electronics, and Making | Kate Hartman | Feb 15 | |
| a11y tree | Joseph | Feb 8 |
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| Sustainable Tourism Inclusive Design: Management and Marketing Toolkit and Safety and Guide Training Resources | Emily McIntyre | Feb 1 | |
| Using Small Computers (C.H.I.P., Arduino, Raspberry Pi) | Simon | Jan 25 | Slides: Small Computers Community Workshop Jan 2017.pdf Pre-workshop notes: |
| 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 |
| GSoC 2017 Brainstorming | Justin | Jan 11 |
2016 Topics
Topic | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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| Post Infusion 2.0 Review | Dec 21 | ||
| Pair/Mob Programming - Part 2 | Alan / Michelle | Dec 14 | Remote Programming Instructions |
| 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 |
| Accessibility in MOOCs: The current state and next steps | Francisco Iniesto | Nov 30 | Presentation |
| Hive Toronto: Community Building and Web Literacy | Simona Ramkisson | Nov 23 | Slides |
| Pair/Mob Programming | Michelle / Alan | Nov 16 | https://github.com/waharnum/pair-programming-meeting |
| Douglas C. Engelbart's 1968 demo - Video ( last 30 minutes ) + Discussion | Justin / Michelle | Nov 9 | |
| 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 |
| Visualization of Complex Medical Data using Next-Generation Holo-graphic Techniques | Michael Page ( Phase Lab OCADU ) | Oct 26 | |
| Douglas C. Engelbart's 1968 demo - Video | Justin / Alan | Oct 19 | |
Applying Market Research and Analysis Practices | Jim Tobias | Oct 5 | Slides |
| GSoC Projects Discussion | GSoC Students | Sep 28 | Data Visualizations: Responsive Music UI Controls: Discovery Cat: UIO/Learner Options: |
Site deployment tasks | Justin | Sep 21 | Website Deployment Checklist |
| 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 | |
| Discussion on Accessible Gaming | Godfrey and Tim | Aug 17 | Google Doc |
| Introduction to Design | Dana and Sepideh | Aug 10 | |
| Discussion: Interactive Touch Inputs with Screen Readers | Jon / Justin | Aug 3 | Discussion: PhET Sims: Other: |
| Introduction and Discussion of the GPII Nexus | Simon | July 27 | Repo |
| Self assessment strategy for measuring and tracking software skills like collaboration and creativity | Julia / Evangelos Kapros | July 20 | |
| Discussion of use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac: Continued from June 22nd | Julia | July 13 | a11y features |
| Discussion: Screen Reader Strategies | Jon Hung | July 6 | Discussion Guide and Notes (google doc) |
| Discussion: Working with students with Developmental Disabilities and how they use technology / sharing IDRC projects | Dragan Pausak / Michelle D'Souza | June 29 | |
| Discussion of use cases for built-in a11y features on Windows and Mac | Julia | June 22 | a11y features |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: "Self: The Movie" | Video and Group Discussion | June 15 | |
| Inclusive Design Mapping Tool exercise | Jutta | June 1 | Requirement Mapping (Petals & Flowers) |
| 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) |
| Introduction to Programming | Alan | May 4 | Workshop Twine Presentation Slides |
| Case Studies of User Creativity in Computing: Logo | Antranig | April 27 | |
| Metatecture | Steve | April 20 | |
| Wiki Gardening | Fluid Team | April 13 | |
| Reserved for OCADU Vision & Mission Project | March 30 | ||
| SEO | Katya Bovykina | March 23 | Slides |
| Discuss about onboarding into the Fluid community | Justin | March 16 | Notes |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |