<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Hello! My name is Yoonha Cha, and I am a PhD student at the University of </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">California, Irvine. I am leading a </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">research study aiming to understand the self-developed solutions and / or usage of Generative AI for blind and low vision software professionals</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">. W</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">e are reaching out, looking for participants who </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">would like to take part and share their stories in a 60-minute audio-recorded </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">virtual interview session, about using Generative AI for software development and/or self-developed solutions to problems.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">You</span> are eligible to participate in this study if <span class="gmail-il">you</span>:</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">1. Identify as being blind or having low vision</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">2. Are working or<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">have</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>worked in a software development position (i.e., software engineer, DevOps engineer, tester, accessibility designer, product manager, director, C-suite, etc.) This could be in either an industry setting or open source development.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">3. <span class="gmail-il">Have</span> at least one year of experience working in this role</span></font><div><font color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">You</span> will be paid at a rate of $40/hour for your participation via an Amazon </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">gift card. We acknowledge that the compensation amount is not commensurate with </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">average hourly rates for people in this industry. We would ideally like to </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">compensate more, but this project is supported through a government-funded research grant </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">and unfortunately we do not <span class="gmail-il">have</span> control over the payment amount. If <span class="gmail-il">you</span> are </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">still interested in telling your story and experience to the research community </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">and contributing to accessibility research, we would greatly appreciate your </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">time.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If <span class="gmail-il">you</span> are interested in p</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">articipating in this study, please fill out <a href="https://forms.gle/TaqnEMjnfAyKmz36A" target="_blank">this </a></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://forms.gle/TaqnEMjnfAyKmz36A" target="_blank">short form</a>,</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> or contact me, Yoonha Cha, at </span></font><span id="m_2630924468880788971m_2474679056516830617m_-6074659709434395061gmail-docs-internal-guid-87751403-7fff-a330-105e-f46f14311689" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:yoonha.cha@uci.edu" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><u>yoonha.cha@uci.edu</u></a>. Thank <span class="gmail-il">you</span>!</span></span></div><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></font><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Yoonha Cha</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">PhD student, Informatics</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">University of California, Irvine</span></font></div></font></div>