On 13th March, 2025, Zeynep Yildiz, Anna-Lena Meiners and Nicolas Walter were the guests of the “Social Design Studio” Course by the Futurewell Research Group from Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. As part of the lecture on the accessibility of arts and culture institutions, they talked about their projects on museum accessibility with Natural History Museum and ZKM in Karlsruhe, presenting their research process and initial results.
In this talk, Dr. Zeynep Yildiz, a postdoc researcher from HCI&Accessibility Research Group, will present the initial findings of a research project that aims to understand the studentship experiences of disabled students at KIT. This research specifically questions how disabled students (not) use technologies to navigate higher education and how this affects their studentship experience. The event will take place on 26th of March from 2:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in 50.28 Room 201.
We are looking forward to participate in the Talk & Play event at ZKM | Centre for Art and Media on 04th February, 2025. Kathrin Gerling and Anna-Lena Meiners will give a short intro to self-determined gaming experiences, and discuss accessibility in games with developers and game enthusiasts. More information.
We are pleased to announce that our submission, "A Socially Mediating Robot to Assist Non-verbal Children in an Inclusive Daycare Context," has been accepted as an LBR at HRI 2025. The conference will take place in March in Melbourne, Australia. The contribution describes a novel approach to how a social robot can be used to support non-verbal children in the daily life of an inclusive daycare.
The second workshop for KATE PhD students took place from October 28-29, 2024 at the Forstliches Bildungszentrum (FBZ) in Karlsruhe. The PhD students organized the workshop themselves. They presented their work with posters and lectures, exchanged ideas, networked and received training from Dr. Thorsten Schwarz on how to make PDFs accessible.
In October, schoolgirls were able to design their own environments with Unity VR and test them live. They also had the opportunity to learn Braille, create tactile graphics on the computer and print them.
People with visual impairments can navigate safely with the assistance of advanced guidance systems. However, obstacles such as parked bicycles, e-scooters, or vehicles often pose challenges on campus. Informational tags can be requested at info@access.kit.edu or printed for us.
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We are excited that two of our papers (examining gaming sickness and representation of ADHD in games) received award nominations by the IGDA Game Accessibility SIG conference #GAconf.
In September, a workshop for female students took place on the topic: How can visual information be adapted for people with visual impairments and blindness – Designing and experiencing virtual reality and tactile displays.
As part of the annual Meta Rhein Main Chaos Days of the CCC Darmstadt e.V., Sabrina Burtscher presented an update on her work regarding neurodivergence, work, and technology. Conference attendees from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands were present in the audience. The recording of the talk and the slides are available online.
A version of the recording with (automatically generated) subtitles is available on YouTube.
Our VR simulation of barriers in the built environment at Durlacher Tor in Karlsruhe was accepted to this year's Mensch & Computer conference. 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.