How can we engage more effectively with inclusive design as a way to enhance user experience for everyone, including people with disabilities? Presented by David Sloan and Sarah Horton at UX Lausanne, June 4th 2015.
Accessibility as a focus for people-first designDavid Sloan
This presentation argues that by involving people with disabilities in UX activity, from user research to usability studies, design teams can increase sensitivity to diverse user characteristics and scenarios, and identify creative solutions to problems. It provides practical tips for organisations who want to involve more people with disabilities in user research, covering topics such as study design, recruitment, and presenting discoveries in an effective way.
What to teach and how: a consultant's perspective on accessibility educationDavid Sloan
Talk given at BCS Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education conference, London, 7th April 2016. As accessibility consultants, we experience many recurring issues in our work. What accessibility knowledge and skills do these issues tell us we need to teach digital creators and decision-makers?
Accessibility as a Driver for User ExperienceDavid Sloan
Presentation by David Sloan and Sarah Horton, given at WebVisions 2015 in Barcelona, 3 July. How can a mature approach to designing for human diversity help lead to a better user experience for everyone?
Inclusive user experiences for older web usersDavid Sloan
Talk given at a11yLDN Meetup, 1st December 2011, at City University, London. Overview of the relationship of web accessibility and inclusive user experiences for older web users.
Accessibility as a focus for people-first designDavid Sloan
This presentation argues that by involving people with disabilities in UX activity, from user research to usability studies, design teams can increase sensitivity to diverse user characteristics and scenarios, and identify creative solutions to problems. It provides practical tips for organisations who want to involve more people with disabilities in user research, covering topics such as study design, recruitment, and presenting discoveries in an effective way.
What to teach and how: a consultant's perspective on accessibility educationDavid Sloan
Talk given at BCS Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education conference, London, 7th April 2016. As accessibility consultants, we experience many recurring issues in our work. What accessibility knowledge and skills do these issues tell us we need to teach digital creators and decision-makers?
Accessibility as a Driver for User ExperienceDavid Sloan
Presentation by David Sloan and Sarah Horton, given at WebVisions 2015 in Barcelona, 3 July. How can a mature approach to designing for human diversity help lead to a better user experience for everyone?
Inclusive user experiences for older web usersDavid Sloan
Talk given at a11yLDN Meetup, 1st December 2011, at City University, London. Overview of the relationship of web accessibility and inclusive user experiences for older web users.
Web Accessibility and Older People - not as straighforward as you think?David Sloan
An overview of age related accessibility issues, research and best practice in web accessibility for older people, and an argument why we need to consider social issues relating to ageing and focus on reducing cognitive difficulties in completing web-based tasks.
Presentation given at a11yLDN, 21st September 2011, City University, London.
Motivating Faculty to Embrace Accessibility3Play Media
In this webinar, Dr. Jennifer Pedersen will share the University of Alaska Anchorage's accessibility journey with you. You’ll hear faculty perspectives on accessibility, what worked well, and what areas were a struggle. By the end, you'll be able to identify ways to build accessibility into your university's curriculum, how to help faculty select or create accessible materials, and how to design accessible activities.
Who Should Be Involved in Your Campus' IT InitiativePatrick Loftus
When it comes to accessibility on your campus, whose responsibility is it to establish and uphold an accessibility initiative?
On-campus accessibility should be a campus-wide, shared responsibility, but it can be daunting to think about where to begin. Over the last five years, Oklahoma ABLE Tech has worked with over 20 institutions across Oklahoma to build an ambitious project focused on accessibility in higher education. They’ve worked to identify the roles and responsibilities of the many departments in a university that touch accessibility.
In this webinar, Rob Carr, the Accessibility Coordinator at Oklahoma ABLE Tech, will present on the various jobs and responsibilities that are required in implementing a well-rounded accessibility program. He'll also provide you with the necessary tools to begin conversations for a campus-wide accessibility initiative.
Topics will include:
Where to begin your journey towards accessibility compliance
Roles and responsibilities required for implementing an accessibility initiative
How to frame the conversation to illustrate the campus-wide necessity for accessibility
Results from a Survey to Measure the Benefits of Accessibility and Universal ...Howard Kramer
Results from a Survey to Measure the Benefits of Accessibility and Universal Design Topics in Course Curricula
(plus teaching resources for including accessibility/UD Topics in University Courses)
AHEAD 2021
The importance of web accessibility: How being inclusive can improve your uni...SMILE
Do you struggle to get those around you to understand what accessibility is all about and what impact it has? You’re not alone. At SMILE, we’re keen to promote that accessibility should be embedded in your organisation’s culture – we don’t believe that it should be seen as a checkbox exercise.
Managing the Process of Providing an Inclusive Institutional Web Presence: Wo...David Sloan
Slides to support a workshop given at the 2012 Institutional Web Managers' Workshop (IWMW 2012), Edinburgh, June 19. The workshop focus was on institutional web accessibility policy, and the potential that British Standard 8878 may have in developing and strengthening accessibility policy.
Inclusive Design and Accessibility Education at the University of DundeeDavid Sloan
Presentation given by David Sloan at a workshop on Utilising Best Practice in ICT Design for All Teaching, held at Middlesex University on June 26 2008
Web Accessibility and Older People - not as straighforward as you think?David Sloan
An overview of age related accessibility issues, research and best practice in web accessibility for older people, and an argument why we need to consider social issues relating to ageing and focus on reducing cognitive difficulties in completing web-based tasks.
Presentation given at a11yLDN, 21st September 2011, City University, London.
Motivating Faculty to Embrace Accessibility3Play Media
In this webinar, Dr. Jennifer Pedersen will share the University of Alaska Anchorage's accessibility journey with you. You’ll hear faculty perspectives on accessibility, what worked well, and what areas were a struggle. By the end, you'll be able to identify ways to build accessibility into your university's curriculum, how to help faculty select or create accessible materials, and how to design accessible activities.
Who Should Be Involved in Your Campus' IT InitiativePatrick Loftus
When it comes to accessibility on your campus, whose responsibility is it to establish and uphold an accessibility initiative?
On-campus accessibility should be a campus-wide, shared responsibility, but it can be daunting to think about where to begin. Over the last five years, Oklahoma ABLE Tech has worked with over 20 institutions across Oklahoma to build an ambitious project focused on accessibility in higher education. They’ve worked to identify the roles and responsibilities of the many departments in a university that touch accessibility.
In this webinar, Rob Carr, the Accessibility Coordinator at Oklahoma ABLE Tech, will present on the various jobs and responsibilities that are required in implementing a well-rounded accessibility program. He'll also provide you with the necessary tools to begin conversations for a campus-wide accessibility initiative.
Topics will include:
Where to begin your journey towards accessibility compliance
Roles and responsibilities required for implementing an accessibility initiative
How to frame the conversation to illustrate the campus-wide necessity for accessibility
Results from a Survey to Measure the Benefits of Accessibility and Universal ...Howard Kramer
Results from a Survey to Measure the Benefits of Accessibility and Universal Design Topics in Course Curricula
(plus teaching resources for including accessibility/UD Topics in University Courses)
AHEAD 2021
The importance of web accessibility: How being inclusive can improve your uni...SMILE
Do you struggle to get those around you to understand what accessibility is all about and what impact it has? You’re not alone. At SMILE, we’re keen to promote that accessibility should be embedded in your organisation’s culture – we don’t believe that it should be seen as a checkbox exercise.
Managing the Process of Providing an Inclusive Institutional Web Presence: Wo...David Sloan
Slides to support a workshop given at the 2012 Institutional Web Managers' Workshop (IWMW 2012), Edinburgh, June 19. The workshop focus was on institutional web accessibility policy, and the potential that British Standard 8878 may have in developing and strengthening accessibility policy.
Inclusive Design and Accessibility Education at the University of DundeeDavid Sloan
Presentation given by David Sloan at a workshop on Utilising Best Practice in ICT Design for All Teaching, held at Middlesex University on June 26 2008
A curriculum for opening minds to Global Perspectives: from ad hoc ‘dealing w...Jo Kelder
This presentation was given at the University of Tasmania's Teaching Matters 2013 conference. It reports on a learning design to teach and assess 'Global Perspectives', or 'Cultural Competence' in first year students studying in the Faculty of Health. It is a four week module that can be incorporated into a first year unit, delivered face-to-face or fully online.
A PROJECT REPORT ON
NGO INTERNSHIP IN KOTAK EDUCATION FOUNDATION, MUMBAI,
FROM 10TH NOVEMBER TO 22ND NOVEMBER
SUBMITTED BY:
UTKARSH VERMA
MARKETING-I, ROLL NO: 114
APP ID: PGDM-1332
BATCH-2014-16
FACULTY GUIDE: PROF VENI NAIR
ITM NAVI MUMBAI
SUMMARY
This report is an account of my association with Kotak Education Foundation, along with
other students of ITM, for two weeks (from 10th November to 22nd November, 2014). It
chronicles all our activities as a team of volunteer interns for Kotak Education Foundation during
the aforementioned period.
Kotak Education Foundation (KEF), an NGO formed in 2007 by Mr.Uday Kotak ( Vice
Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd), Mrs.Pallavi Kotak and
Mr.Shivaji Dam (Former Director , Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd) , caters to the education and
livelihood needs of the underprivileged section of the society.
In the areas of education KEF has partnered with 30 schools catering to underprivileged students.
In the schools, the foundation teaches spoken English to students of class 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.
The spoken English program is supported by other programs such as Health, Parenting, School
Teacher's and Principal Development and Scholarship.
Creating a safe environment for your students, one that’s inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender affiliations, is vital for the success of your school. Educational consultant Jennifer Bryan offers valuable recommendations in this Net Assets article (published March/April 2012) for fostering a school atmosphere open to LGBTQI students, including an inclusivity checklist that will help you assess how your school stacks up.
Do the right thing: accessibility and inclusive design (with Drupal)cspin
What developers, designers, content managers, and stakeholders need to know about the current state of web accessibility, the laws in Ontario enforcing accessibility by January 2014, and how Drupal can help.
Inclusive Education & Its Implication in Classroom TeachingRajnish Kumar Arya
For this presentation, in-service Itinerant Teachers were population. Here I tried to cater their needs. Before preparing it, they were given a questionnaire containing 40 items. After analyzing its result I come to know their requirement.
Accessibility while a big topic in itself is part of a wider issue. Being inclusive comes from catering to those with impairments, cultural needs and our users' environments.
This slideshow talks about how to approach the topic on projects, how to get buy in, what the responsibilities are in different disciplines across the team and what it actually means to our users.
Empathy, Education and Excellence in Inclusive DesignSarah Horton
Designing great user experiences for everyone, including people with disabilities, requires shared responsibility across a project team. But how do you motivate and educate project team members to contribute effectively to inclusive design? In this presentation we will discuss ways to use education and user research methods to build empathy for people with disabilities, to better understand and design for diverse user needs. Attendees will learn:
* How responsibility for accessibility can be most effectively distributed throughout product teams.
* The importance of empathy for human diversity in helping team members successfully meet their accessibility responsibilities.
* Effective ways of involving people with disabilities in product team education and research activities.
* How to engage the product team with education and research activities and outcome.
Presented at Accessibility Camp - NYC, Sept 26, 2015, with David Sloan: http://a11ynyc.com/camp/.
Designing for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Language and LiteracyUXPA International
UXPA 2013 Annual Conference Wednesday July 10, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm ET by Yulia Nemchinova
The importance of accommodating visually impaired Web users is now widely recognized - yet cognitively impaired users are still largely left behind. Cognitive disabilities include conditions such as learning and language disabilities, attention disorders, traumatic brain injury, mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, cognitive issues related to aging and more. The broad spectrum of cognitive issues and lack of user research and evaluation pose immense and important challenges to us as UX practitioners. This presentation addresses design for this diverse user group, with a special focus on language and literacy disabilities fairly common in both adults and kids.
Keynote slides from Segundo Coloquio Nacional de Educación Media Superior a Distancia, in Mexico, 2011, discussing the dance and coevolution of technologies (including pedagogies) that has led to the emerging connectivist model of distance learning. The presentation looks beyond this to a holist model of distance learning that embodies collective and set entities as well as networks and groups.
To many, informatics means big data. But as the 2014 Obermann Working Symposium, “Designing the Digital Future: A Human-Centered Approach to Informatics,” November 7-8, 2014, demonstrated, informatics technology intersects with narrative, the arts, collaborative learning, dance, diversity, narrative, social justice movements, values sensitive design, visual thinking, and more. During an “agenda lunch” on the second day of the symposium, participants considered the future of human-computer interaction and informatics at the University of Iowa. These slides are the product of that discussion.
During two days and with participants from across the University of Iowa and surrounding community, keynote speakers, local panelists, and the symposium organizers explored how -
-to encourage more departments to participate in the informatics initiative
-to assess campus resources for joint programming, courses, and research groups that engage not only science and technology, but also the arts, humanities, and social sciences
-to clarify the opportunities, challenges, and obstacles faced by researchers in HCI and informatics, including funding; tenure and promotion; research and publication; curriculum, disciplinary differences, and institutional barriers
Beyond the “Digital Divide”: Understanding the complexities of access and inc...D2L Barry
Presentation at 2019 D2L Connection at Normandale CC on April 5, 2019
Beyond the “Digital Divide”: Understanding the complexities of access and inclusion in an online learning environment- Emily Myanna and Jennifer DeJonge, Metropolitan State University
Putting Locative Technology in its Sense of PlaceGlen Farrelly
As we interact and learn about places, we bestow meaning on such places, forming the mental concept of a sense of place. Mobile devices and location-based services (LBS), a.k.a. locative media, may alter our everyday relationships of place. This paper reports on an exploratory survey study conducted on the elements that comprise sense of place and the role of (LBS). It was found that sense of place arises from diverse information sources, is multimodal and individualistic. Findings also suggest LBS can improve sense of place by enhancing people’s familiarity, personal engagement, and social connection to place. Respondents also identified barriers to their use of LBS.
I was asked to present a presentation on "How cautious should we be when adopting digital technology in Education?" We should remain very cautious. Even the that which is presented as the best, remains nothing more than content replication.
The search for early signs of important changes and themes in education, technology and society occupy a number of people scattered over the globe every year when producing the NMC Horizon Report (http://www.nmc.org). A scan of the horizon reveals signals and can provide foresight to support current challenges in research, innovation, policy and practice. Some of the challenges are more or less well-understood but where solutions remain elusive; others are wicked challenges - complex to even define. David will discuss techniques, outcomes and tactical insight in the field of near future work.
Choosing the Right Research Methods for Your Project (webinar)Susan Mercer
It’s very easy for User Experience researchers to get stuck in the rut of using your favorite research methods for gathering information and getting user feedback. But, are you really gathering the best information that you can? Or are there other methods that are better suited for your project’s specific needs?
Or, if you’re just starting out – how do you know whether you should conduct interviews, run a survey or a card sort, or something different all together?
Don’t stress – in this webinar, we’ll cover the most popular user research methods and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Each method shines in different circumstances, and we’ll highlight the factors that will make each successful. We will also present a structured approach to helping you choose the best method or methods for a particular situation.
Tell me what you want and I’ll show you what you can have: who drives design of technology for learning?
Associate Professor Sue Cobb
Interactive Technologies and Games (ITAG) Conference 2014
Health, Disability and Education
Dates: Thursday 16 October 2014 - Friday 17 October 2014
Location: The Council House, NG1 2DT, Nottingham, UK
Exploring pedagogical culture for accessibility education in Computing ScienceDavid Sloan
What do we know about effective methods for teaching accessibility? This presentation given at the W4A conference in Montreal shares initial findings from a review of published work on pedagogy and accessibility, with a focus on computing science.
Accessibility: A core quality and a shared responsibilityDavid Sloan
Why we need to increase the maturity with which we think about and do accessibility, and how we can go about doing that. Presented at the UK UX Professionals' Association Global Accessibility Awareness Day event, London, May 21 2015.
A user experience perspective on the challenges and opportunities for providing accessible online learning experiences. Presented at A11yBos 2014, 10th May.
Developing a Global Digital Accessibility Policy: What’s Going On Around the ...David Sloan
A case study on digital accessibility policy and legislation in 5 selected countries, and implications on accessibility policy-making by globally active organisations. Presented at A11yBos 2014 on 10 May, based on a paper given at W4A2014
Global Considerations in Creating an Organizational Web Accessibility PolicyDavid Sloan
A short study of digital accessibility legislation and standards diversity and trends in Australia, Brazil, China, India and South Africa, and implications on global organisational policy. Presented at W4A 2014, Seoul, 7th April.
Digital Inclusive Practice in Learning and TeachingDavid Sloan
An introduction to technology for inclusive education - motivation and key principles of digital resource authoring. This presentation was given on 25 March 2013, as part of the Teach @ Dundee induction event for new teaching staff at Dundee University.
Rich internet application accessibility - a quick overviewDavid Sloan
Presentation to be given at future meeting of the University of Dundee Web Group - an overview of rich internet application accessibility and WAI-ARIA.
Slides from a presentation giving an overvies of the principles of designing and delivering electronic assessments that are designed with the diverse needs of learners in mind. This was a webinar given on 5th September 2012, one of the virtual sessions of the eAssessment Scotland 2012 conference.
Online Learning Resource Accessibility in a LunchtimeDavid Sloan
Presentation given at the University of Dundee's eLearning Symposium on 8 June 2012, focusing on some key techniques for assessing and addressing potential accessibility barriers in online learning resource.
A Challenge to Web Accessibility Metrics and Guidelines: Putting People and P...David Sloan
Paper given at W4A 2012 conference (www.w4a.info), discussing the potential influence of British Standard 8878 and the use of learner analytics to support accessibility policy and activity in large organisations.
Engaging industry and the public sector in accessible, inclusive designDavid Sloan
Talk delivered to Scottish Usability Professionals' Association on 24 May 2011, focusing on developments in web and ICT accessibility, barriers to adoption and how these can best be addressed.
The potential of adaptive interface interfaces as an accessibility aid for ol...David Sloan
The technical and social challenges of implementing an accessibility adaptation framework that detects age-related capability decline and makes appropriate adaptations, allowing continued use of the Web and ICTs for older people.
Developing countries, developing experiences: approaches to accessibility for...David Sloan
Presentation of paper by Brian Kelly, Sarah Lewthwaite and David Sloan on 26th April at W4A 2010, Raleigh US. We discuss how we can learn from successes and limitations of web accessibility policy in the developed world, in order to optimise web accessibility policy in the developing world
Engineering Web Accessibility for Older PeopleDavid Sloan
Discussion on the importance of browser usability and UAAG-conformance to supporting older web users. Presented at University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, 24th November 2009.
The overlap between Web Accessibility and Web Usability for Older peopleDavid Sloan
Discussion of the similarities and differences between designing for Web Accessibility and supporting Web Usability for Older people. It was presented at an event on technology and older people hosted by Autelic at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, October 29-30 2009.
Never mind the content: the importance of Authoring Tools in achieving Web Ac...David Sloan
Presentation on Web Authoring Tools and Accessibility, given by David Sloan at a Scottish Web Accessibility Briefing, organised by TextHelp Systems, in Glasgow on 27 May 2009.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
10. By concentrating solely on the bulge at
the center of the bell curve we are more
likely to confirm what we already know
than learn something new and surprising.
Tim Brown, Change By Design
11. Empathy: Understanding the impact
• Diversity: People and technology
• Commonality: People are people
• Accessible UX: Design meets disability
14. Learning how to
apply standards to
specific interactions
Error message not
announced by screen
readers
Form labels not
programmatically
associated with inputs
16. Principles of Universal Design
• Equitable Use
• Flexibility in Use
• Simple and Intuitive Use
• Perceptible Information
• Tolerance for Error
• Low Physical Effort
• Size and Space for Approach and Use
North Carolina State University, uxfor.us/universal-design
27. Details
• 9 people over 2 days
• Sessions lasting ½ to 1 hour
• Low vision: Large monitor, ZoomText, large type,
high-contrast mode
• Blind: JAWS, VoiceOver
• Deaf: Captions
• Limited mobility and dexterity: Dragon
31. Excellence: Designing for pleasure
• Creativity: Using accessibility as a driver for innovation
• Maturity: Integrating accessibility into culture and
practice
• Inclusivity: Caretaking the whole experience
Medium is a great place to share information and opinion, and start conversations, about topics including accessibility. But it also has its own accessibility limitations, which have been pointed out very forcefully. So do we stop using it as a place to talk about, promote and encourage accessibility? Wouldn’t it be better if we used it as part of a publishing and communication strategy?
JIIG-CAL, 1980s software for telling teenagers their future career paths.
Persons help us understand the diversity of accessibility needs, but also to recognise the beneficiaries of accessibility are people who have goals, opinions, characteristics, tolerances… just like everyone else.
There can be a tendency to look at accessibility as only dealing with the extreme margins in a bell curve of a population, which can restrict attention, support, and influence of the efforts that are applied.
Sarah
A door, with a fundamental accessibility barrier. Not everyone has same means of use.
Same means of use—a design where everyone can enter the same door, and the step is no longer present as a barrier.
Equivalent use:
Understanding what AT can do that you don’t have to. Text resizing widgets are redundant, but skip links still help people, even though arguably they should be a browser feature not a content feature.
Photo credit: Tom Magliery https://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/6265874898/
Stage of a continuum of accessibility maturity
Issues people encounter when working with the website
Suggested areas of focus for improving accessibility
An example of poor placement of critical information—in a place that’s difficult to see if you’re a screen magnifier user, and a place that takes time to find if you’re a screen reader user
The HTML timetable contains only a subset of information available on the downloadable PDF timetables (which are extremely complex and very difficult to interpret using a screen reader)
Challenge to creativity: Opportunities
Indi Young has talked about gaps in mental models. Do we care about our gaps in understanding how people with disabilities interact with digital products? Do we want to fill them?