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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I signed up. It’s very interesting study. I will be very happy to help your project.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cagri <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> BlindRUG <blindrug-bounces@nfbnet.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seo, JooYoung via BlindRUG<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 3, 2023 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> blindrug@nfbnet.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Seo, JooYoung <jseo1005@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Blind R Users,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><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;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Learnability and usability of the accessible visualization system that our research team developed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Future directions towards more accessible data visualization system and data science education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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. 
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">be age 18 or older;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><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);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">be everyday screen reader users such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ORCA, etc.;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><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.;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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