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<p class="MsoNormal">Please Join the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo from 2-3:15 PM on 30 March for a virtual panel with three researchers about their work and research in Accessibility in Digital Games and Virtual Reality. The panel will include
Triskal deHaven, Dr. Katta Spiel, and Dr. Cayley McArthur. Triskal deHaven will lead the panel with frequently asked questions about Virtual Reality and Accessibility, research studies within higher level education, and some of the gaps in Accessibility that
researchers could pursue. Attendees are encouraged to ask their own questions about these topics during the event.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222;background:white">This is a free, hybrid event
</span></b>(GI Collaboration Space or Teams)<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222;background:white">! <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/panel-on-designing-for-disability-and-accessibility-tickets-558775100367" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Eventbrite
registration required.</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">About the Speakers:</span></strong><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Triskal DeHaven:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Triskal is a User Experience Researcher who uses Qualitative methods to enable video game developers to create
their desired player experiences. He has extensive knowledge on Accessibility in Digital Games and Virtual Reality. When he isn’t working, he loves playing RPGs with friends, hiking with his Doberman, or working out at the gym with his partner.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Cayley MacArthur: </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Cayley MacArthur, Ph.D. is a Games Institute member specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI)
research, with a focus on inclusive technologies and inclusion in technology. The implications of this work are broad: working on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in HCI requires interrogating the perspectives, assumptions, methods, and artifacts
encountered in our approaches to research, design, and the development of new and existing technologies. She has published and presented interactive demos at top venues in her field. Cayley is also actively engaged in the research community and has served
on the organizing or program committees of CHI 2022, DIS 2021, CHI 2019, CHI 2018, CHIPLAY 2020, and ISS 2018.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Katta Spiel:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Katta Spiel is an FWF Hertha-Firnberg scholar at the HCI Group of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology),
where they work on the intersection of Computer Science, Design and Cultural Studies. Katta researches marginalized perspectives on technologies to inform interaction design and engineering in critical ways so they may account for the diverse realities they
operate in. Drawing on methods from (Critical) Participatory Design and Action Research on a background heavily shaped by Queer Theories and Disability Studies, they collaborate with neurodivergent and/or nonbinary peers in conducting explorations of novel
potentials for designs, methodological contributions to Human-Computer Interaction and innovative technological artefacts.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#222222">Virtual audience will receive an online link the day before the event.
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is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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