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Robin Angelini, Katta Spiel and Maartje De Meulder just published a paper on Deaf Technology! Curious what it’s all about? We’ve got a quick overview for you in these slides! 👉 Their research dives into how current tech often requires deaf users to adapt, rather than being designed with their needs in mind. 💡  👉… Read more: Paper Alert: Experiencing Deaf Tech

Several members of the ACCESSTECH team participated in the 10th conference of the Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF) which took place in Graz, 18-20 September 2024. The transdisciplinary conference focussed on the theme of “Humans – Machines – Environments” and addressed critical questions around the roles of gender in technology, the interaction between humans and… Read more: ACCESSTECH @ ÖGGF 2024

Last week, we had special visitors: ‚die Maus‘ came for a visit along many small and ‘big’ children. Under the theme ‘Technology for an inclusive future’, we set up four interactive stations as part of #TürenAufMitDerMaus2024, where young and old could playfully  Many thanks to our curious visitors, who participated wonderfully and with great interest at… Read more: Open doors with ‘die Maus’

ACCESSTECH had a strong presence at this year’s „Mensch und Computer“ (MuC) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Founded in 2001, the MuC conference is the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. Almost the entire ACCESSTECH team was on site to present our work and goals in various workshops, paper presentations and panel discussions to an… Read more: Dazzling contributions at MuC24

Videos show content in International Sign (left) and Austrian Sign Language (right). Teledildonics are remote-controllable sex toys that transmit touch in real-time via vibrational patterns between two (or more) users. Inspired by sci-fi narratives, they aim at enabling sex at physical distance. The ability to combine teledildonics with virtual reality pornography further promises endless possibilities… Read more: First ACCESSTECH paper out: “Cyber toy stories: The broken promises and broken parts of interactive sex toys” 

Videos show content in International Sign (left) and Austrian Sign Language (right). ACCESSTECH was represented at the conference for Designing Interactive Systems, where members of the team co-organised a workshop on techniques for queering data and AI systems. Each participant brought one or more queering techniques along to discuss in the workshop — our examples,… Read more: ACCESSTECH @ DIS 2024

In mid-May the AccessTech core team was finally complete and met for a retreat in beautiful Carinthia, near Lake Ossiach, from May 23rd to May 24th. We used those two days to fully concentrate on how to approach our big project, what we want to achieve within its different subtopics and what we need to do… Read more: BÄM!

We sponsor a lunchtime lecture at the HCI Group and are happy to let you know we invited Ruadhán James Flynn to tell us about “Whose Standpoint Matters? Imagining Disability Justice”. Please find all information directly at the website of the HCI Group or in the video (in ÖGS).

Videos show content in International Sign (left) and Austrian Sign Language (right). We are pleased to announce that members of the ACCESSTECH team are co-organising a one-day workshop on “Material and Tangible Research Methods in HCI” at the “Mensch und Computer 2024” (MuC) conference. We will use this opportunity to reflect collectively with other researchers… Read more: Workshop on “Material and Tangible Research Methods in HCI”