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I am a human-computer interaction researcher. I study the impact of sociotechnical systems, including novel AI-powered experiences, on people with disabilities. My research findings inform inclusive and ethically-designed processes and experiences.<\/p>\n
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2022 I’m a Senior Research Scientist in\u00a0Google Research’s Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology organization.<\/a>\u00a0Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in\u00a0Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Human-Computer Interaction Institute<\/a>\u00a0and a researcher at Apple, Inc. I received my Ph.D. from the\u00a0University of Washington\u2019s Human Centered Design and Engineering Department\u00a0<\/a>and I interned at Microsoft Research. I received my BA in Psychology with minors in African American Studies and Women\u2019s Studies from the\u00a0University of North Carolina Wilmington.<\/a><\/p>\n I have received funding from a Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Eight of my co-authored papers at the ACM\u2019s ASSETS, CHI, and DIS conferences have received awards.<\/p>\n I update this website minimally. Open access links to all of my publications and recorded presentations are on\u00a0my CV,<\/a>\u00a0which is frequently updated and structured to be very accessible, and with versions hosted online or downloadable. Read my\u00a0About page<\/a>\u00a0for a few things that are not on my CV.<\/p>\n June<\/strong>\u00a02022:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to\u00a0Frank Elavsky<\/a>\u00a0who presented his first\u00a0lead-author paper<\/a>\u00a0as a Ph.D. student! He invited me to help write his\u00a0open source Chartability principles and heuristics for evaluating the accessibility of digital data experiences<\/a>\u00a0up for the\u00a0EuroVIS academic community.<\/a><\/p>\n May 2022:\u00a0<\/strong>I presented a talk called\u00a0Centering People in Information Translation<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Stanford\u2019s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis,<\/a>\u00a0and discussant\u00a0Professor Roanne Kantor<\/a>\u00a0followed with a fantastic and provocative response. The talk overviewed\u00a0my research on the politics of human and machine-written image descriptions of race, gender, and disability,<\/a>\u00a0and recent art and activist commentary and futuring on human-centered approaches to ever-automating information translation. Professor Kantor\u2019s response enriched my talk by bringing in connections to disability law, digital media history, and feminist theory.<\/p>\n May 2022:<\/strong>\u00a0Kelly Mack<\/a>\u00a0did an awesome job leading a team of 8 researchers and presenting our resulting\u00a0honorable mentioned CHI 2022 \u00a0paper!<\/a>\u00a0We interviewed researchers and community organizers to learn how they currently host accessible human-centered studies and events. Here is the\u00a0video presentation.<\/a>\u00a0Here is a\u00a0\u00a0list of tips we learned that you can apply to run your own accessible research.<\/a>\u00a0Here is a\u00a0\u00a0blog version of the academic paper.<\/a>\u00a0Pay attention to the acknowledgements and participants as some consented to be named, and support their work as you can. TL\/DR accessibility is a research specialization but all research should be accessible. Anticipating accessibility and openness to flexibility smooths the inevitable last-minute adjustments that become necessary on mixed-ability teams.<\/p>\n April\u00a02022:\u00a0<\/strong>Congratulations to Candace Williams who published her first\u00a0lead-author paper<\/a>\u00a0as a Ph.D. student to\u00a0the Web4All conference!<\/a>\u00a0It describes her Apple internship project on two important facets of image accessibility–the prevalence and quality of recently-published computing paper figure alt text, several of which describe complex compositions of charts and images of systems, \u00a0and insights from interviews with computing paper authors on opportunities to improve paper and figure-creation tools.<\/p>\n Email:\u00a0clb5590@gmail.com This website is not endorsed by any entity; it is a personal account of my professional activities<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Main Content I am a human-computer interaction researcher. 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