Reimagining Access: Inclusive Technology Design for Archives and Special Collections

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Art and design students at a whiteboard, ideating and sketching concepts .
ArtCenter students flesh out concepts during a recent accessibility design workshop led by Assistant Professor Josh Halstead, a disability advocate who participated in the Reimagining Access symposium and class. Photo by Steven Butler.

Partners:

Institute of Museum and Library Services
Society of American Archivists Accessibility and Disability Section
The Braille Institute
MSU Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting

Host department:

Interaction Design

DM department:

Jennifer May, Executive Director
Leigh Hoffman, Faculty Director
Kimberly Velazco, Program Manager
Garret Scullin, Senior Coordinator
Dominique Rivero, Designmatters Intern

Faculty:

Todd Masilko, Interaction Design
Elise Co, Interaction Design
Josh Halstead, Graphic Design

Expert advisors:

ArtCenter Archives and Special Collections

Bob Dirig, Director
Mario Ascencio, Managing Director/Librarian
Cathy Folgate, Assistant Archivist

Students:

Spring 2021

Athena K. Aquino (Graphic Design)
Elizabeth Costa (Interaction Design)
Charlene Joy Dela Cruz (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Rhema Gabriela (Advertising)
Yuxuan (Sara) Hua (Product Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Xun Liu (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Ziwei Lu (Product Design)
John Ma (Interaction Design)
Anthony Palileo (Interaction Design)
Joey Serricchio (Fine Art)
Ruiying Xu (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)

Students:

Summer 2021

Zhean (Steven) Chen (Product Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Charlene Joy Dela Cruz (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Tung Him (Tobey) Karpenko (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Cynthia Lee (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Jeung Soo Lee (Interaction Design)
Mehar Nangia (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Huangchen Qi (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Yuning Tang (Product Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Jiaying Wang (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)

Special thanks:

Ani Boyadjian, Principal Librarian, Research & Special Collections
Jennifer Ismirel, Senior User Experience Researcher, UARC
Sarah Swiererga, Director of the Usability/Accesseibilty Research Consulting (UARC) Group

Teaching assistants:

Evan Stalker (Graduate Media Design Practices, Spring 2021)
Elizabeth Costa (Designmatters Fellowship, Summer 2021)