If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)
@mdekstrand CUNY SPS is where I went through (specialized in assistive technology/accessibility) via their Disability Studies program. I went for postgrad though and I'm not blind myself, but several professors were/many of them were disabled of some kind, used AT themselves, etc. Seconding RIT, the iSchool, and University of Maryland. MICA (also in MD) also has a UX and assistive tech program, but I don't know much about it and it was off my consideration due to cost.
dear #hci#lazyweb: a lit review chase this week has had me trying to scare up a copy of Frayling's 1993 "Research in Art and Design" (Royal College of Art Research Papers v1n1), and it does not seem to be on the Internet. Worldcat shows one physical copy in Denmark?
Does anyone have a link (or a PDF) they could share w/ me? (feel free to reply by email) #icanhaspdf
@bkeegan They had both of those, but not a fan of Laphroaig — way too smokey for me. I had an Ardbeg once a while ago, and remember it being ok. They also had Macallan and Oban, but priced higher than I was feeling this week. Highland Park was the only thing that looked to be in the spice-forward department.
as we see yet another Boeing safety alert, I keep thinking about the role of rendering antitrust law a dead letter.
Since we allowed Boeing to gobble up all their competitors, the US airliner industry consists of one firm. If they were competing with McDonnel-Douglas and Lockheed, suitably stiff penalties and compliance costs could be levied without upending the economics of an entire industry.
All this work in AI for “customer service” but what about AI for navigating customer service? If it’s good enough for them to try to handle my problem, shouldn’t it be good enough for me to try to navigate customer service to get it solved?
Another #ECIR2024 preprint! Lex Beattie, Henriette Cramer, Sole Pera, and I map the space of goals and “intervention strategies” for consumer-side impacts of IR & #recsys (with application to other stakeholders too).
We argue that effective impact work needs to be well-grounded, contextualized in broad and creative thinking about possibilities, and use methods that are well-matched to the goals. TL;DR put down the regularizer and step away from the algorithm.
When I created my Data Science class, I wrote a guide to writing effective assignment solution notebooks in Jupyter. I've now revised it to be more course- and tech-independent and moved it to my website. https://md.ekstrandom.net/resources/writing-notebooks
New on my blog — a detailed writeup of my setup for Zoom calls, remote teaching, and video recording & production, along with recommendations at a variety of price points for improved quality. https://md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2024/01/zoom-lecture-studio