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CREATE Accessibility Seminar

The CREATE Accessibility Seminar, CSE 590w – Accessibility Research, brings students and faculty together to explore a variety of topics relating to accessibility and technology. In the Fall, we usually read a book together. Spring seminars are usually short research presentations, followed by discussion and critical evaluations.

Winter 2026 Seminar

This quarter, we will continue the Art x Accessibility theme, featuring guest presenters each week.

Presenter schedule

Jan 12: Welcome session for folks to socialize and discuss their interests related to art and accessibility

Jan 26: Speaker and title to be announced

Feb 2:  Lucy Jiang — Unseen City Canvases: Exploring Blind and Low Vision People’s Perspectives on Urban and Public Art Accessibility

Feb 9:  Tony Fast — What you is what you hear (and feel): Art as a descriptive Sensory Framework for Accessibility Technologies

Feb 16:  Dillon Simeone — Haptic Interfaces for Sonic Accessibility

Feb 23:  Miriam Brody — Advancing Access Through Highlighting Crip Technoscience in the Arts

Mar 2:  Patty Liang — Deaf Spotlight

Mar 9:  Puneet Jain — DJ enters the mouth. Swallows it. Spits it back: What can HCI learn from XR art activism, hacked mouth interfaces, and crip joy?

Please join us! No preparation or registration required to attend.

How to participate

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Related explorations

Tinkering Tuesday: DIY Accessible Tech meeting

CREATE hosts Tinkering Tuesdays, in person in the Gates/CSE2 283 lab and often with a Zoom option. Tinker with various forms of DIY Accessible Technology (DIYAT) and related technologies. The space has lightweight making and accessibility equipment, such as an embroidery machine, swell paper printer, 3D printers, and soldering. Get updates on CREATE’s #diyat Slack channel.

Assistive Robotics Reading Group

Maya Cakmak’s Assistive Robotics Reading Group (CSE 590 K) is happening again Winter quarter 2025! The last one (in 2022) was very engaging and planted the seeds for a published paper. We will read newer papers on robotics, accessibility, and occupational therapy, with the goal of identifying unique, unexplored opportunities for robots to assist people.

Past seminar topics

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