Welcome to this edition of Perspectives, the e-newsletter of the
Stanford course, Perspectives in Assistive
Technology.
What
is the course? - Perspectives in Assistive Technology is a
Winter Quarter course at Stanford that explores issues surrounding the design,
development, and use of assistive technology benefitting people with
disabilities and seniors. More information can be found on the
course website.
Invitation to attend - You are invited to attend
all class lectures. They will be held in
Building 530, Classroom 127 on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons at 4:15 to 5:30pm and are free and open to the
public.
Next lecture - Tuesday, February 14th at
4:15pm:
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What's up with the
Telephone?
Nancy Frishberg, PhD
MSB Associates - User Experience
Strategist |
Abstract: Alexander
Graham Bell was the son of a deaf mother, husband of a deaf wife, and in his
efforts to invent a device to help with speech and hearing, created a device
now so ubiquitous we carry it on our persons. Yet the telephone may be the most
visible and frequent point of inaccessibility for modern day adults with
hearing loss. We’ll review operational meanings of deafness, successive
generations of alternative and assistive technologies, and what the current
situation is for deaf adults. And we’ll get wish lists for improving
technology-mediated communication from four deaf adults in a variety of
occupations.
Biosketch: Nancy
Frishberg is a User Experience Strategist, based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Her industry experience includes research, marketing, and project management
roles with IBM, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and with several consulting
organizations. She holds a PhD in linguistics with a specialization in sign
languages. Her 1986 book Interpreting: An Introduction, published by the
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID), transformed the field of sign
language interpreting from a focus on rehabilitation to the perspective of
multi-lingual interactions.
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