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Meredith Ringel Morris Principal Researcher, MSR Ability Team
AI for Accessibility
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• Worldwide, more than 1 billion people experience some form of disability [World Health Organization, 2011]
• 19% of the U.S. population is disabled [U.S. Census Bureau, 2012]
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“As I think about living our mission, top of mind for me heading into 2016 is how we must make Microsoft products accessible to the more than 1 billion people globally of all abilities… Universal design is central to how we realize our mission and will make all our products better… I will continue to devote my time and passion to this priority.”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, December 2015
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Disability SegmentsVisual
Ray Charles
• Colorblind
• Low vision
• Blind
Hearing
Marlee Matlin
• Hearing loss
• Deaf
Cognitive
Temple
Grandin
• Dyslexia
• Seizure
• Learning Disabilities
• Autism
Speech
James Earl
Jones
• Accents
• Speech impediment
• Unable to speak
Mobility
Josh
Sundquist
• Arthritis
• Quadriplegia
• Spinal cord injury
Neural
Catherine
Zeta-Jones
• Bipolar
• Anxiety
• PTSD
• Depression
Diseases can span disability segments:
Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s affects
cognition, speech and
mobilityMichael J. Fox
ALS
ALS affects mobility
and speech
Prof. Stephen Hawking
slide courtesy of
Chief Accessibility Officer
Jenny Lay-Flurrie
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Panelists
Jeffrey Bigham
Carnegie Mellon University
Walter Lasecki
University of Michigan
Shaun Kane
University of Colorado
Augmenting Vision Augmenting Hearing Augmenting Speech
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• How to deal with AI errors in critical user-facing domains?
• Pros/Cons of human-in-the-loop AI for accessibility?
• How to handle data needs vs. privacy tradeoffs?
• What accessibility research challenges will push the bounds of AI, growing both fields?
• What AI research challenges are roadblocks to accessibility research?
Panelist Q&ABigham Lasecki Kane Morris
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