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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Judging from the protocol, the only excluded participatnts are from China. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> BlindRUG <blindrug-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Voica Gavrilut via BlindRUG<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 4, 2023 2:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> Blind R Users Group <blindrug@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Voica Gavrilut <voica.gavrilut@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [BlindRUG] Invitation to Participate in Research on Improving Accessibility of Data Visualization with, by, and for Blind and Low-Vision People<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear JooYoung, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Voica<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 11:46 PM Seo, JooYoung via BlindRUG <<a href="mailto:blindrug@nfbnet.org">blindrug@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Dear Blind R Users,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I am JooYoung Seo, a blind information and learning scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:34.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>A research team </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>composed<span style='color:black'> of blind and sighted scholars at the Unive</span>rsity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is <span style='color:black'>conducting</span> user studies <span style='color:black'>on</span> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:34.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The expected value of this study is that we will get a better sense of the following topics based on blind individuals’ experiences:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Learnability and usability of the accessible visualization system that our research team developed</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Future directions towards more accessible data visualization system and data science education.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:34.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Participants’ personal information and data such as name and email collected from the user studies will be systematically removed from the final results. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:34.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:9.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>be age 18 or older;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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);</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>be everyday screen reader users such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ORCA, etc.;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>have access to either a refreshable braille display or braille notetaker that can be connected to your computer and screen reader.;</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>not currently located in China (this is because of the current research protocol restriction)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:34.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>If you are interested in participating, please fill out this Google form </span><a href="https://forms.gle/roRmM4Z8v7kaX8Rb7" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC'>https://forms.gle/roRmM4Z8v7kaX8Rb7</span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> If you encounter any questions, feel free to contact our team via email: <a href="mailto:yilinx2@illinois.edu" target="_blank">yilinx2@illinois.edu</a>. Please pass on this information to other suitable candidates who you think may be interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>JooYoung Seo (PI), Yilin Xia, and Yu Jun Yam</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:black'>--------------------<br></span><b><span style='color:#13294B'>JooYoung Seo, Ph.D. (he/him/his)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='color:#13294B'>Assistant Professor, </span></i><span style='color:#13294B'>School of Information Sciences</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><i><span style='color:#13294B'>Faculty Affiliate, </span></i><span style='color:#13294B'>National Center for Supercomputing Applications</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><i><span style='color:#13294B'>Faculty Affiliate, </span></i><span style='color:#13294B'>Illinois Informatics Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='color:#13294B'>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='color:#13294B'>Room 5158, 614 E. Daniel St. </span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='color:#13294B'>Champaign, IL 61820</span><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='color:#13294B'>(217) 333-2671 | </span><a href="mailto:jseo1005@illinois.edu" target="_blank">jseo1005@illinois.edu</a><span style='color:black'><br></span><span style='color:#13294B'><a href="https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/jooyoung-seo" target="_blank">ischool.illinois.edu/people/jooyoung-seo</a></span><span style='color:black'><br> <br></span><a href="http://illinois.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=165 height=43 style='width:1.7187in;height:.4479in' id="m_-3034835965998379577Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D94E76.BEFC1800" alt="University of Illinois logo"></span></a><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><i><span style='color:#666666'>Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act any written communication to or from university employees regarding university business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>BlindRUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:BlindRUG@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">BlindRUG@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindrug_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindrug_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for BlindRUG:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindrug_nfbnet.org/voica.gavrilut%40gmail.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindrug_nfbnet.org/voica.gavrilut%40gmail.com</a><br>The list archive can be viewed at:<br><a href="http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindrug_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindrug_nfbnet.org</a><br>More information and useful links about using R as a blind person can be obtained at:<br><a href="http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz</a><br><br>Look for help using R commands by reading the accessible e-book "Let's Use R Now" compiled by Jonathan Godfrey at:<br><a href="http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz/lurn/front.html" target="_blank">http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz/lurn/front.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><br><span class=gmailsignatureprefix>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Voica<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>