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garrethtigwell.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the iSchool at RIT. Research interests cover accessibility, design, HCI, and UX. http://www.garrethtigwell.com
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I just said no to conference service. Would have loved to serve in that role and am fond of the conference. But it’ll be held in the US and I can’t feasibly exploit myself to contribute to events I am banned from joining. (Affects all trans/nb folks) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How do we address conferences pushing for reviewers to identify novelty in papers, but then reviewers take this to look for something completely unknown? I keep seeing reviewers want to reject papers because the findings match previous work even though the context being studied in the papers is new.

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Wanted to submit but didn't get a change? Good news! We've extended the deadline to March 17th ✨ Come discuss the future of accessible prototyping at hashtag #CHI2025! More info: dcitizens.eu/access-incon...

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If anyone missed over the weekend, @fractalecho.bsky.social and I started Thank You For Your Feedback Loop, a newsletter on the elite capture of disability movements. Our first piece examines Google's narrowing definition of accessible from democratic to disabled. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

For the past year, @fractalecho.bsky.social & I have been trying to understand what the shifting meaning of "accessible," from something democratic to something disabled means as public access is increasingly being revoked. We hope you read The Rise and Fall of Access. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Spending my Friday night writing up explainers for how research grants work is becoming normal now, I guess. My attempt at explaining indirect research costs and why it should matter to EVERYONE that our federal research funds are being decimated. www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open! Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here: blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm... • Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK • Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025 • Conference: 18-20 August 2025 #aphasia

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The ASSETS 2025 early bird mentoring deadline is Feb 20. Signup details here assets25.sigaccess.org/mentoring.html. We also have an interesting blog post from mentoring chair Yasmine Elgaly describing her experiences with early ASSETS papers and why mentoring is helpful medium.com/@yasmineg/th...

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Don't forget to submit to our #CHI2025 workshop called Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods. The deadline is 13th February. Please share the message to let people know.

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Announcing ASSETS 2025 Call for Papers and Mentoring. Technical papers are due April 16, experience reports are due June 11, posters and demos are due June 25, and the DC is due June 25. If you are new to ASSETS, you can also receive mentorship. Details at assets25.sigaccess.org Pls share.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This is HCI! HCI faculty being asked not to care about "justice" is absurd. How can we do research that focuses on "humans" at all? We're being asked to just do CI research now. The H is going to be too woke. Also: being asked to reframe/remove details about award winning papers is so awful.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

New blog post up, this one more for my non-academic readers who are wondering what is going on with all this NSF freeze business. www.kateringland.com/what-does-re...

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"All NSF grantees must [cease] all non-compliant activities... that [use] DEIA principles and frameworks" The EO asks that DEIA "discrimination programs" be terminated "to the maximum extent allowed by law." But it is illegal to fail at accessibility and to discriminate. I'll be obeying the law.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

We have a workshop at #CHI2025 Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and submissions of interest check out dcitizens.eu/access-incon... #digitalcivics #accessibility #HCI

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

ASSETS 2025 is soliciting self-nominations for program committee members and reviewers. Register your interest by January 10, 2025, via the survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... For questions, please contact the TPCs Chairs, Cynthia Bennett and Martez Mott, at [email protected]

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

[ #academicSky, pls help + repost] Reminder: Fully funded PhD! Join my lab if you want to do impactful work in Explainable AI, Human-centered AI, and Responsible AI! (upolehsan.com) Beyond research intersections, why should you want to work with me? 🧵1/n

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

We have a workshop at #CHI2025: Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods Join us in Japan or online in April! More details and for submissions of interest check out: dcitizens.eu/access-incon...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

📢📢 Fresh in ‼️ We at the Soundability Lab are recruiting postdoctoral fellows in HCI & accessibility area. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... We’re also recruiting upto 3 PhD students in various areas. accessibility.eecs.umich.edu#apply See the postings for our projects of interest & how to apply.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I haven't made a post yet, so I thought I should fix this to say it's great to see so many accessibility and HCI people joining bsky. The community is growing! My research interests cover design, accessibility, and HCI. Links to my work can be found on Scholar scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Have some new followers from some starter packs and such, so boosting my intro thread. Also, I'm on the academic job market! #HCISky #EdTechSky

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

#AcademicSky, does anyone here teach or do research in #HCI #HCC or a related field? Please reply to this post if you do. Want to see about creating a starter pack for such scholars.

submitted 107 days ago • 8 comments

Located 2 awesome HCI and Accessibility researcher starter packs thanks to @evanmpeck.bsky.social!! HCI list, by @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social: bsky.app/starter-pack... HCI Accessibility list, by @jonfroehlich.bsky.social: bsky.app/starter-pack... Evan's post just now: bsky.app/profile/evan...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment