Dr. Emma McDonnell
@ej_mcdonnell
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National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow at @UW BIME researching accessibility and health | PhD from @hcdeUW, BS @NorthwesternU | she/her/hers
Joined October 2019
After a long five years, it was a race to the finish, as I defended my dissertation and graduated last week! So many thank yous, especially to my committee and to my family and friends who made it a proper celebration!
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I will also be serving as a virtual chair for this year's ASSETS and am always excited to connect with ASSETS folks, feel free to reach out!
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If you're interested in learning more, attend my talk on Monday afternoon in session 2B, check out our video presentation: https://t.co/GGuebLISk4 or read the full paper:
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Off to Newfoundland tomorrow for #ASSETS24 where I'll present the final piece of my dissertation research! With @leahfindlater I outlined a framework for collective communication access technology research, and used it to analyze the last decade of captioning research
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Very excited to be starting as a National Library of Medicine Postdoc in Biomedical Health Informatics @UW next week, where I'll be working with @ProfWanda to explore how accessibility and disability perspectives can shape health-related technologies!
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Not going to lie, being cited in a TikTok (especially by @etymology_nerd, whose work I love) is a research career highlight!
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I will be presenting my work on TikTok captioning tomorrow (Monday 5/13) in the 2-3:20 PM Online Communities - Engagement B session in room 313C!
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I finally wrote this paper, and it's now published at #CHI2024! I will be at CHI and am on the job market, looking for postdoc positions. I do interdisciplinary accessibility research -- if you're looking to add that expertise to your team, I'd love to talk!
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I'm excited by efforts like para.chi and want to stay in this field to keep imagining how we can build an international community that includes people who can't regularly travel to conferences and doesn't ask people to balance their ethics and career advancement
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Going to CHI was a last minute decision I didn't want to make -- not only is my dissertation due on Thursday 😅 but traveling to Hawaii does not align with my ethics or politics #whyCHI
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I'd love to bring my interdisciplinary approach to new areas of accessibility research or related HCI research areas, such as AI, health, family, or educational technologies
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My dissertation research has combined HCI, design, and disability studies and activist perspectives to reimagine the design of captioning technologies. Check out my recorded CHI presentation for an example of my approach:
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I finally wrote this paper, and it's now published at #CHI2024! I will be at CHI and am on the job market, looking for postdoc positions. I do interdisciplinary accessibility research -- if you're looking to add that expertise to your team, I'd love to talk!
Anyone else desperate for a paper on TikTok captioning and what the interesting things teens are doing with size/font/emoji/placement/etc might teach us about how to convey greater meaning in captioning and also the development (or lack thereof) of community accessibility norms??
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I am defending my dissertation in one month 😱😱 If you’d like to learn about my work, which brings a collective access approach to the design of captioning technologies, fill out this form to join me on Zoom on June 6 at 10:30 AM Pacific!
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Hello all! I am at the end of my PhD, and will be defending my dissertation on June 6th at 10:30 AM Pacific. I would love to have you join me to learn about my work around designing communication...
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Final piece of my dissertation research is submitted 😱😱😱 #assets2024
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I got to lead a fantastic team-@tessuheagle, @weerachets, Soo Hyun Moon, @liltove, @jonfroehlich, and @leahfindlater-in analyzing hundreds of TikToks, talking to caption users, and considering how to make sure that the increase in user-captioned content serves caption users well!
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Very excited to share our #CHI2024 paper investigating the current state of TikTok captioning and understanding how current user-generated captioning practices serve people who need captions to access videos! https://t.co/DkS96a4xFn
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I'd love to get connected with folks and places that would be a good fit!
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Broadly, I blend my computer science, HCI, design, and disability studies backgrounds to build toward a future of #a11y research that is better aligned with disability politics and social worlds
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