HCI & A11y Researcher & PhD Student at @uwcse | Ex-Jersey boy and @UChicagoCS alum | Games, Art, & Accessibility | 🏳️🌈
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y'know, part of what I love about the @GA_Conf awards is just learning about all the a11y features that have been introduced in games I already know & love-- I've played Diablo for ages and finding out how much access support they added in VoH absolutely made my day 😊😈
Best blind & low vision accessibility goes to @Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred!
ALT Spiritborn crouching in the jungle, wearing a stylised animal headdress and wielding a huge ornate halberd
HUGE congrats to vishnu, @BrianHCI & the team on this fantastic work! Absolutely well-deserved win here, love to see the continuing impact this paper has!
Also, thanks @stevesaylor for hitting on the importance of academic research being shared beyond paywalls, especially for a11y work that's so relevant outside academia!
for those interested, my finalist paper "Playing on Hard Mode" is open access on the ACM DL! (link in reply)
So honored & delighted to be a finalist for Best Academic Research in this year’s Game Accessibility Conference Awards!
And to be nominated alongside these juggernauts of game a11y research… wow!! 🤩🥳
Love that I can contribute to such a fantastic research community!
And one more! The finalists for Best Academic Research are Vishnu Nair, Ian Gauk, Kathrin Gerling, Anna Chen, and Jesse J Martinez.
This category sits outside the usual voting process, but you can find links to their papers at gaconf.com/gaconf-awards-202…
#gamedev #accessibility
ALT GAconf Awards 24. BEST ACADEMIC RESEARCH. Surveyor: Discovery for Blind & Low Vision Players, Detecting subtitle/audio mismatch with EchoTest, The Lived Experience of Teenagers with ADHD, Gaming Sickness’ Impact on Player Experience Accessibility, Difficulty & Joy in Game Adoption.
This is for my CHI ‘24 paper with @ProfJayFo & @jonfroehlich, “Playing on Hard Mode: Accessibility, Difficulty and Joy in Video Game Adoption for Gamers with Disabilities”, available at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36139…
And the full list of GAConf Award finalists: gaconf.com/gaconf-awards-202…
Jesse Martinez 👾 retweeted
Great to see @uwcreate highlight @ej_mcdonnell's work in studying and co-designing videoconferencing systems for small groups with mixed hearing status! create.uw.edu/codesigning-vi…. 🙏🏽
Great micropaper from @FrankElavsky on the pro & cons of “options” as accessibility solutions— def a good lens for looking at #CHI2023 a11y work
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sucker for a good option— but sometimes, navigating a small novel of a11y options is a barrier in&of itself!
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Also, if you haven’t read Frank’s micropaper on micropapers, I highly recommend it— sometimes in research, the idea just needs to be *out there* so the community can build on it!
arxiv.org/abs/2302.12854
Hey #CHI2023 early risers! (#earlyCHIsers? Idk, get it trending)
@jr_thomp and I are gonna be presenting our accessible data vis work “Chart Reader” at 9:28 at the Vis & People session in hall Y05/06! Grab some coffee and come hear about this EPIC project!
I'm thrilled to present Chart Reader at #CHI2023 tomorrow!
jrthomp.com/chart-reader/
Chart Reader is a prototype accessibility engine that renders accessible charts. Iteratively, co-designed w/ our fantastic colleagues at MSFT.
@JesseDoesHCI @yelperalp @edcutrell @bongshin
Link to our talk in the CHI Program: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2023…
Jesse Martinez 👾 retweeted
I'm thrilled to present Chart Reader at #CHI2023 tomorrow!
jrthomp.com/chart-reader/
Chart Reader is a prototype accessibility engine that renders accessible charts. Iteratively, co-designed w/ our fantastic colleagues at MSFT.
@JesseDoesHCI @yelperalp @edcutrell @bongshin
do folks have a term for this phenomenon in gaming?
1. a game is accessible [enough] at the start of gameplay
2. some inaccessible game element is introduced mid-game (eg, an underwater level with different controls)
3. the game is now inaccessible
#accessibility #gaming
After @MissFire4’s amazing talk at #GDC2023, I’m finally checking out #GodofWarRagnarok and just gotta say: I ADORE playing an accessibly designed game 😍😍
Getting to choose what challenges & barriers are satisfying to me?? Flexibly designed gameplay?? I’m in love 🥰🥰
Wow, what an INCREDIBLE #GDC2023 !! So much love to @carolmertz and @momoxmia for being amazing collaborators & a couple of brilliant badasses ❤️❤️
And to all the amazing game accessibility people I got to meet: y’all rock and I’m excited to keep changing the world together!! 😎
ALT Jesse, Morgan & Carol smiling in celebration after their talk
Jesse Martinez 👾 retweeted
#GDC2023 Day 1 is complete! It was an honor to present about board game accessibility with @JesseDoesHCI and @carolmertz! And of course sharing the stage with the talented @apartytoaccess as well! These folks are up to some incredible things, definitely be sure to follow them ♥️
ALT Morgan bakers GDC badge, games accessibility lead for Electronic Arts, all access speaker pass.
Really excited to share this with the GDC community! @momoxmia & @carolmertz are so brilliant and it’s been a dream getting to collaborate with them 🥰👾
Want to learn more about how to make a board game accessible? Here’s an upcoming talk for you on a case study!
Can’t wait to present alongside @carolmertz and @JesseDoesHCI to talk about work at @gameofkittens ♥️
schedule.gdconf.com/session/…