Our VR simulation of barriers in the built environment at Durlacher Tor in Karlsruhe was accepted to MuC 2024. Congratulations to our student team who built the system as part of their PSE course project.
Read the Pre-print here
On Thursday, July 18, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., Julian Frommel will give a lecture on "Toxicity, Hate, and Harassment in Online Multiplayer Games" at the Real-World Lab Accessibility.
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We are pleased to announce that our submission "Neurodivergence and Work in Human-Computer Interaction: Mapping the Research Landscape" has been accepted and will be published at the CHIWORK Conference 2024. We will present it at the end of June in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The paper describes a literature review in the field of neurodivergence and technology in the context of work.
We are pleased to announce that our workshop "Envisioning the Future of Accessible Immersive Technology: Creating a Roadmap and Building Community" has been accepted for this year's Mensch & Computer conference in Karlsruhe. You can find the participation details and more information about participating in the workshop here.
From April 26-27, the 6th workshop on "Creating accessible documents for school, university and work" took place at InformatiKOM 2 at KIT. 65 persons from schools, transfer centers, pedagogy, universities and public administration from whole Germany took part in the workshop. It was organized by the Center for Digital Accessibility and Assistive Technologies together with the Chair of Pedagogy for People with Visual Impairments and Blindness at the University of Hamburg.
From April 11-12, 2024, the first doctoral workshop took place in Bad Herrenalb in the Haus der Kirche. The doctoral students discussed the current status of their work with their PIs and networked more closely with each other.
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On March 6th at 1:30 PM, the first Accessibility Coffee will take place. The Real Lab for Accessibility invites everyone interested to join and discuss accessibility on the first Wednesday of every month. More information can be found at TODO.
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Our Real-World Lab Accessibility organizes together with she.codes the workshop "Games for Everyone on the Calliope Mini-Computer Programming" for the Girls' Day at KIT, which takes place on 25.04.2024. More information and registration can be found on the workshop website.
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gerling and Anna-Lena Meiners will speak at the Non-Conference on Friday, March 22 at 2 PM at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe. They will participate in the discussion panel "What if Museums Were Responsible for the Well-Being of Society?". More information about the Non-Conference can be found on the ZKM website.
Join us for two engaging guest lectures by Katrin Angerbauer and Markus Wieland on 22th February 2024 at 11am in the HCI VR Lab. For more infromation, click here.
Prof. Kathrin Gerling is giving a lecture on „Disability Studies and Research in Sensible Settings“ as part of the KATE lecture series in InformatiKOM 2, seminar room 1, Adenauerring 10 on 20th February 2024.
On February 15, 2024, a first meeting takes place in the VR laboratory of ACCESS@KIT to exchange ideas between the two research projects "Inclusive Work Environments in Virtual Reality for People with and without Visual Impairment" (InclusiveVR@Work) and the ERC project "Developing Experience-Centric Accessible Immersive Virtual Reality Technology" (AccessVR).
We are pleased to host the first Fireside Evening at the Real Lab for Accessibility on January 17, 2024, which will be accompanied by a special guest: Prof. Dr. Maria Rauschenberger.
On September 11, 2023, the Group Human-Machine Interaction and Accessibility, the Center for Digital Accessibility and Assistive Technologies and the Computer Vision Research Group celebrated their joint move into InformatiKOM 2. They use together the 3D printing laboratory and electronics laboratory now.