courses we love & things we are currently reading
There are so many people working at similar intersections as we are. Here is a short list of papers/books that we are currently reading.
Emma J. McDonnell, Kelly Avery Mack, Kathrin Gerling, Katta Spiel, Cynthia L. Bennett, Robin N. Brewer, Rua Mae Williams, and Garreth W. Tigwell. 2023. Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research. ASSETS ‘23.
Vinitha Gadiraju, Shaun Kane, Sunipa Dev, Alex Taylor, Ding Wang, Emily Denton, and Robin Brewer. 2023. “I wouldn’t say offensive but…”: Disability-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models. FAccT ‘23.
Robin Angelini, Sabrina Burtscher, Felix Fussenegger, Kay Kender, Katta Spiel, Franz Steinbrecher, and Oliver Suchanek. 2023. Criptopias: Speculative Stories Exploring Worlds Worth Wanting. CHI EA ‘23.
Ather Sharif, Aedan Liam McCall, and Kianna Roces Bolante. 2022. Should I Say “Disabled People” or “People with Disabilities”? Language Preferences of Disabled People Between Identity- and Person-First Language. ASSETS ‘22.
Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard, and Rua Williams. 2022. Disability Dongle. Platypus - The CASTAC Blog.
Kelly Mack, Emma McDonnell, Dhruv Jain, Lucy Lu Wang, Jon E. Froehlich, and Leah Findlater. 2021. What Do We Mean by “Accessibility Research”? A Literature Survey of Accessibility Papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019. CHI ‘21.
Megan Hofmann, Devva Kasnitz, Jennifer Mankoff, and Cynthia L Bennett. 2020. Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design. ASSETS ‘20.
Cynthia L. Bennett and Daniela K. Rosner. 2019. The Promise of Empathy: Design, Disability, and Knowing the “Other”. CHI ‘19.
Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Brady, and Stacy M. Branham. 2018. Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design. ASSETS ‘18.
Sasha Luccioni, Bruna Trevelin, and Margaret Mitchell. 2024. The Environmental Impacts of AI – Primer. Hugging Face.
Sasha Luccioni, Yacine Jernite, and Emma Strubell. 2024. Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?. FAccT ‘24.
David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Kelly Kochanski, Alexandre Lacoste, Kris Sankaran, Andrew Slavin Ross, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Natasha Jaques, Anna Waldman-Brown, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Tegan Maharaj, Evan D. Sherwin, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Konrad P. Kording, Carla P. Gomes, Andrew Y. Ng, Demis Hassabis, John C. Platt, Felix Creutzig, Jennifer Chayes, and Yoshua Bengio. 2022. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning. ACM Comput. Surv.
Human-centered design (HCD) is the process of putting people’s needs, perspectives, and values at the center of the design/engineering processes. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on understanding how people use computers and how we can design them better. HCD and HCI borrow from design, sociology, CS, history, and anthropology.
Many courses at the Claremont Colleges teach these principles: