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Creative Expression of People with Visual Impairments
Creative Expression of People with Visual Impairments
April 2018 - Present
Supervisors: Anne Marie Piper and Darren Gergle, Northwestern University
The aim of this research project is to design assistive technologies to better support creative expression of people with visual impairments. Most of the available assistive tools and accessible technologies support visually impaired people access the contents produced by others – specifically sighted individuals (e.g., how to read a book, access webpage, recognize shapes, or images etc.). However, our goal is to focus on understanding how blind and visually impaired people produce creative contents themselves. We also aim to design assistive systems to better support creative work of visually impaired individuals and sharing of the produced artworks among both sighted and visually impaired people.
Gender Bias in Peer-Production Communities
Gender Bias in Peer-Production Communities
September 2017 - Present
Supervisors: Darren Gergle and Brent Hecht, Northwestern University
Peer-production communities like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap have become important sources of freely available information nowadays. Despite having millions of contributors, these peer-production communities are alleged to have participation disparities, with men significantly outnumbering women. Focusing on OpenStreetMap, this project investigates the relationship between participation and content disparities to understand whether content of interest to men is better represented than content of interest to women.
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