Jesse Martinez 👾

@GA_Conf @CariWatterton LET'S GO CARIIIIIII !!! congrats!!!

MVP award for unsung hero goes to @CariWatterton!

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 😊😈

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)

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!

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/10.1145/36… And the full list of GAConf Award finalists: gaconf.com/gaconf-awards-…

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!

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…. 🙏🏽

@BrannonZ BIG fan of both!! Would be very interested in joining! 🥂🎲

Anyone in Seattle like hard cider and board games? Thinking of putting together a monthly game group. (The hard cider is optional.)

@willie_agnew @Roscoestavern For theatre/performance, I’d say check out @SteppenwolfThtr or @neofuturists, for art I don’t have a rec beyond @artinstitutechi which is just an all-around phenomenal institution (my fave museum of all time)

@willie_agnew All of Northalsted has fantastic drag (Chicago has the best local drag & I WILL fight people about it), but the best shows I’ve seen are consistently at @Roscoestavern, Friday night RPDR viewing parties w guests who always turn it outtttt

what are fun things to do in chicago? planning for facct23. Drag shows, weird art shows, interesting plays, good food (I know about the deep dish)?

@carolmertz also the trend of games that have companion apps-- ONU Werewolf, Search for Planet X, et al-- has *potential* for meaningful a11y design (eg, being able to privately query board info with a screen reader + headphones), though I can't say I've seen particular success w that yet

@carolmertz so I don't know how intentional its a11y design was, but Paranormal Detectives is something my friends & I have found to be delightfully accessible because it's a game "about" multimodal communication, there are a lot of opportunities for nonvisual play embedded into its design

@plopesresearch @ken0324 Oh this is awesome, gotta say I’m jealous!! This project really got me excited about the potential for research to be more than just papers, back in my early HCI-curious days! 😄 Glad to see the parasite coming back to life a bit 🪱

It was dusty in the basement for years, which might explain why it broke after 1h of working haha. Was still amazing that my new colleague @ken0324 could try it! 3/5

Before #CHI2023 I had a really beautiful day at @HPI_DE hanging out with my former advisor Patrick and his amazing new students, who were so kind as to take our old artwork from the basement and set it up! Some fun stories below in this thread. 1/5

@momoxmia Omg wait, I’ve never seen this before??? This is such a sexy feature omfg 🥵🥵

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

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!

Link to our talk in the CHI Program: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2023/progr…

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