[BlindRUG] Invitation to Participate in Research on Improving Accessibility of Data Visualization with, by, and for Blind and Low-Vision People

Sat Mar 4 07:11:45 UTC 2023

Dear JooYoung,

The initiative is very nice and thank you for sharing this piece of
information. I suppose that this experiment is mainly for blind and
visually impaired people from the US. If you can run these experiments even
remotely, please let me know :)

Good luck
Voica

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 11:46 PM Seo, JooYoung via BlindRUG <
blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Dear Blind R Users,
>
>
>
> I am JooYoung Seo, a blind information and learning scientist at the
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
>
>
>
> My research team has developed a prototype multimodal access and
> interactive data representation system that can display data patterns in
> sonification, braille, and text in your preferred browsers. If this
> research is successful, I am going to integrate this module into some
> open-source popular data visualization packages, such as R ggplot2 and
> Python matplotlib going forward for blind data scientists to independently
> explore their data in an accessible fashion.
>
>
>
> With the permission of Lou Ann Blake, the NFB Director of Research
> Programs, I am posting this announcement to recruit some blind people who
> are interested in testing this system as part of user study research.
> Please kindly find the detailed information below.
>
>
>
> A research team composed of blind and sighted scholars at the University
> of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is conducting user studies on blind
> individuals’ interactions with the accessible data visualization system
> that we developed. In this context, an individual’s level of visual
> impairment is based on The U.S. legal definition of blindness: visual
> acuity of not greater than 20/200 in the better eye with correction or a
> field not subtending an angle greater than 20 degrees.
>
> The expected value of this study is that we will get a better sense of the
> following topics based on blind individuals’ experiences:
>
>    - The better multi-representation and accessible combinations of
>    sonification, text, and braille patterns for statistical graphs, such as
>    bar plot, heatmap, boxplot, and scatter plot;
>    - Learnability and usability of the accessible visualization system
>    that our research team developed
>    - Future directions towards more accessible data visualization system
>    and data science education.
>
> Participants’ personal information and data such as name and email
> collected from the user studies will be systematically removed from the
> final results.
>
> Participants will receive a $30 Amazon gift card upon completing the up to
> one-hour and a half user study. Eligible participants for the online
> interview are those who must:
>
>    - be age 18 or older;
>    - meet the U.S. legal definition of blindness (i.e., visual acuity of
>    not greater than 20/200 in the better eye with correction or a field not
>    subtending an angle greater than 20 degrees);
>    - be everyday screen reader users such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ORCA,
>    etc.;
>    - have access to either a refreshable braille display or braille
>    notetaker that can be connected to your computer and screen reader.;
>    - not currently located in China (this is because of the current
>    research protocol restriction)
>
> If you are interested in participating, please fill out this Google form
> https://forms.gle/roRmM4Z8v7kaX8Rb7 If you encounter any questions, feel
> free to contact our team via email: yilinx2 at illinois.edu. Please pass on
> this information to other suitable candidates who you think may be
> interested.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> JooYoung Seo (PI), Yilin Xia, and Yu Jun Yam
>
>
>
> --------------------
> *JooYoung Seo, Ph.D. (he/him/his)*
>
> *Assistant Professor, *School of Information Sciences
> *Faculty Affiliate, *National Center for Supercomputing Applications
> *Faculty Affiliate, *Illinois Informatics Institute
>
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> Room 5158, 614 E. Daniel St.
> Champaign, IL 61820
> (217) 333-2671 | jseo1005 at illinois.edu
> ischool.illinois.edu/people/jooyoung-seo
>
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-- 
Voica
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