Off work for the next three weeks. Back with more content after some needed down time. :)

We are thrilled to announce Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯 as our keynote speaker at #ASSETS2022. Haben is a world-recognized leader advancing disability justice, an author, and the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law. We can’t wait to meet Haben in Athens: assets22.sigaccess.org/keynote.html

An important message from our Citational Justice Collective comes through this new interactions article. Whom you read and cite in your paper is a political decision, and scholars from "other" communities are often victims of this politics. dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/1…

Let's talk about disabilities and diversity in gaming 🔝🔝🔝🔝 #Fdg2022 #athens #digital #humanities #shareyourthoughts #disabilities #diversity #humanbody

Prof: "Welcome back to normal everyone. I have a bit of a cough today so I was wearing a mask, but it's easier to lecture without it." Me: *drops course*

Hier übrigens unser (ausgezeichneter!) Artikel zu genderfairer Sprache aus dem GenderFairMT Projekt: arxiv.org/abs/2209.02793

Unser bei der Mensch und Computer '22 veröffentlichtes Paper »„Es geht um Respekt, nicht um Technologie“: Erkenntnisse aus einem Interessensgruppen-übergreifenden Workshop zu genderfairer Sprache und Sprachtechnologie« ist jetzt online! Kurzer Thread. doi.org/10.1145/354375… /1

Am 30. September 2022 war der European Researchers’ Night in Wien. Meine Arbeit: MACH’S AUF! (machs-auf.at) und Metalab Vienna durften sich von 15-24 Uhr an der Angewandte Wien präsentieren.

Operating from the margins for design and technological development is a deliberate choice given how those in power are already represented, even if as unmarked norms, never mentioned, which tends to make them feel like nothing is for them, when, essentially, everything is.

#CHIPLAY wants to help you design even better games and experiences, that’s why we are happy to have the masterclass “Disability and Play - What to Consider Beyond Accessibility”. Don’t miss it! #chiplay22 ACM SIGCHI #sigchi

We're going to present two experience reports!

Back from #ASSETS2022, where we presented two papers! One by Felix Fussenegger & KS on 'Depending on Interdependence' doi.org/10.1145/351742… and one by KS & Robin Angelini on 'Expressive Bodies' dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…. Both are #OpenAccess!

Our small booklet on racism and coloniality in games is 100% free! pelikasvatus.fi/fairplay.pdf This is for you if you're 💗a gamer, player; if you ever played anything! 💗teaching games / design 💗wondering what racism has to do with games but aren't sure where to start

🏆👏 Auszeichnungen von Forschung bis Literatur an der TU Wien: Nicole Dörr, Jakob Tuna, Ernst Bauer, Katta Spiel, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber und Ingrid Holzschuh. Herzlichen Glückwunsch den Gewinner_innen! tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuel… Bild: c_ATKWORK888 _adobe stock

Erfolge für TUW-Forscher_innen: Wouter Dorigo und Wolfgang Wagner wurden als Highly Cited Researchers gelistet, @katta_spiel wurde von Pride Biz Austria ausgezeichnet und Gottfried Strasser mit dem Vorarlberger Wissenschaftspreis. tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuel… © Wilke; Glitzer&Konfetti

Ich finde es anstrengend, wenn Naturwissenschaftler zu einem komplexen sozialen Problem naturwissenschaftliche Fakten liefern und es dann als gelöst betrachten. Für Transgenderrechte z.B. ist es völlig egal, welche Keimzellen es gibt oder ob Fische ihr Geschlecht ändern. (Thread)

INVITIATION: We HCI Group @ TU Wien host a (hybrid) pop-up exhibition this Friday! Our TU Wien Informatics students present the artifacts and projects they have worked on in the "Free and Open Technologies" & "Computational Aspects of Digital Fabrication" courses. informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2356