Assistive Technology Lecture Schedule

Assistive Tech Fall 2005Lecture Schedule

Date Day 2005 lectures 2005 readings Optional readings Assignments
1/10 M Introduction & functional description of
disability (lecture based on chapter 2 of textbook)
Chapter 3 Service Work — complete by Mon. the 24th
1/12 W Guest Lecture — Kevin Huwe, TRCIL — Overview &
history of the disability movement & related legislation
Chapter 1
1/17 M NO CLASS Litvak & Enders
1/19 W Disability & Society Living in the state of stuck; Shakespeare (02)
(http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Shakespeare/social%20model%20of%20disability.pdf);
Breslin (02); Gill
Wasserman ’00
January 21 F NO CLASS
1/24 M Panel of experts (from TRCIL)
1/26 W Assistive Tech & Accessibly Computing — Demos
& discussion of technology transfer by Kevin Huwe
Chapter 7; Demos; some of Chapter 8
1/31 M Web Accessibility: intro & content Thatcher et al (4); chap
2 of Paciello ’00; alertbox
Project Proposals due
2/2 W Web Accessibility: navigation, forms & data
entry
Thatcher et al (5 & 6)
2/7 M NO CLASS
2/9 W Web accessibility: evaluation Mankoff et al. ’05; Coyne & Nielsen (2001);
Takagi ’04 (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1029014.1028662)
2/14 M Further issues in evaluation Mactavish et al. ’00; Lines & Hone (2004)
2/16 W The Aging Population Forlizzi et al, Consolvo et al, Mynatt et al
2/21 M More on aging in place Beckmann; Ellis et al
2/23 W Low Vision Chapter 12; Fraser & Gutwin, 2000
(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/354324.354329)
Jacko
et. al 2000
Reading summary: andrea
2/28 M Desktop Access for the Blind Kamel & Landay ’00
(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~hesham/files/ic2d-assets.pdf); Mynatt &
Weber ’94 (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/191666.191732); Raman ’96
(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/238386.238405)
Kamel
& Landay ’02
Reading summary: lori Presentation: andrea
3/2 W POSTER SESSION Interim report #1 due
3/7 M NO CLASS
3/9 W NO CLASS
3/14 M Hearing and Tactile Senghas & Monaghan; Ho-Ching et al
(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/642611.642641), ; Skim: Edwards; Skim: Zhao et al
Reading summary: carol Presentation: amy
3/16 W Locked in syndrome & more Parker
3/21 M Research in the motor domain Mankoff et al 05; Myers et al 02; Hwang et al 04 Reading summary: amy Presentation: carol
3/23 W Accessing the world Chapter 11; Hammel et al Reading summary: mary Presentation: lily
3/28 M Language Acquisition Mirenda, ’03; Lehman ’98; Fell ’04 Keate et al 04 Reading summary: shannon Presentation: mary
3/30 W Guest lecture by rich simpson Card et al 80; Koester & Levine ’98
4/4 M CLASS Cancelled — CHI
4/6 W Movie Showing The Sound and The Fury. Mary Hart will arrange
details.
4/11 M POSTER SESSION Interim report #2 due
4/13 W Cognitive Block ’00, Cole et al. ’98 reading summary: lily Presentation: lori
4/14 Th NO CLASS
April 15-16 F-Sa NO CLASS
4/18 M Cognitive #2 Carmien et al. ’03, Wu et al. ’04, Moffatt et al.
’04
reading summary: carol
4/20 W Families & Caregivers Hayes et al; Behr & Murphy; Park et al. Wehmeyer & Schwartz 97 Presentation: shannon
4/25 M 3-5pm, W8220 Summary discussion & movie
4/27 W FINAL PRESENTATIONS