[00:00:04] >> Everyone welcome to the today's t.v. brown bag My name is **** adamant and I am the director of heart attacks and message program we're really great seminar lined up for today we have 3 recent demo 6 high student graduates we're going to discuss their master's project give you a little bit of background the master's project for your message their program is an important component. [00:00:32] Of the curriculum students in the 2nd year of the program complete to Celestron project. It's asked to have something to do with h.c.i. and students are working either by themselves or in small groups with a faculty advisor what's common to all these projects is really 3 things one is there has to be some kind of research with users to understand who they are understand their needs there's some sort of design activity design are active you're prototype that's rated maybe a actual system that works and then there has to be some kind of regard which would then use. [00:01:12] The. We've got 3 examples that really show the variety of the kind of projects that have been done Iris to our 1st presenter is going to be Jordan Hill who can interesting project to explore the visualization of air pollution data so that it can be understood by the general public and Professor Jesco or as for advice. [00:01:36] To be followed by Back Leno with his partner Rachel Unger built a virtual reality system to teach people meditation skills after my graduated last May He went through Georgia Tech's grade x. program and now as a starter productize this idea Professor Rosario Aga is was match advisor. And then running things I would have done did a group who designed the system for you x. pression ols or can be heard of accessibility inclusive design to tell their stories about overcoming barriers and. [00:02:14] Creating clues designs and Dr Terry Bruce was sending his advisors. To get started I want to give a big welcome to our emitted m I 6 the i students will be excited that you're here and what I'd like you to do is introduce yourself in the chapter on blue Judy that's just so we know you're here and be salable bit of something about where you're coming from. [00:02:40] One more bit of housekeeping if you have any questions. For the speakers put them in the queue and queue in a area and I fear time of the end will will go through. And with that let me turn this over to Jordan Hill who will be talking about her visualization. [00:03:00] Everyone I am going to pull out my screen break and after having that if you can just let me know that it's in sharing your sharing. Thank you. Great so however one like I said my knees are in hell and I'm a recent graduate of the program I did my master's project last year on designing actualize education tools or air quality data that incorporates multiple solutions and my thesis advisor was Dr just Robert just a little bit about ground about what the air quality index is and how it's calculated the air quality index actually monitors 5 pulleys. [00:03:59] And they are all around this hexagon that you see here they're called the indexes and it goes from 0 all the way to 300 or 500 from 0 which is good and then the very end is very unhealthy or has addressed and if you want to know what the air quality is a certain day you can look on air quality applications or converse Lee You can look at data portals The problem with looking at either of these you is that when you look at air quality applications it provides the user a simplified reporting in an obscure relevant contractual information or emulsify multiple data and then commercially if you look at the online data portals you'll see scientific calculations and measurements. [00:04:50] It has a high floor and it requires data flows. Correctly so like I said for the application it only displays a Q Why is one number so in the hexagon diagram I explained earlier has 5 monitor he why monitors and then provide the max value pollutant as a key life of the day which shows up on these. [00:05:19] A.p.i. applications. For the data for girls a display of all the monitor pollutants scientific measurements but like I said it's difficult for non experts to interpret for my problem areas for my master project I work in the tiles which is the technology integrated in learning and slab and I've looked at most public a.p.i. sources either present this value without sufficient supports for deeper exploration of multiple pollutants or there are those robust data repositories that are too technical to be acceptable to nonscientific audiences so my goal going into this was to visualize air quality data in a more comprehensive way and this was mainly visualization based project. [00:06:07] And I wanted to maintain the ease of use and without requiring data fluency so like 6 mentioned earlier the contribution it was phasing out the project from start to finish I designed and executed a research plan initially for formative research I did research analysis and and synthesis I also designed initial data visualization platform and then executed usability testing plan on the platform 1st and foremost like we want to do with every project in the master's program at 8 in Georgia Tech as well as just an industry is to understand the user and the context and this is more of an academic projects so I focus primarily on the user not necessarily customer and I didn't have to worry about product markets that or any of that fun stuff I'm sure baffle talk about that in greater detail in my next project but for this particular project the user was the general public the general public in urban or suburban areas with some degree of interest in your quality reporting. [00:07:15] And the context Initially I wanted to design a large interactive display such as a key off to be placed in the public setting or and in formal learning environment so that users are able to have single user interactions and I later later pivoted to design a web based interactive visualization form due to cope with 19 restrictions this actually worked out quite well. [00:07:41] Designing the interactive visualization formats web based We were fortunate in not regard for my design process it was very very typical and a typical design process that you'll see in the master's program for a masters project as well as other projects in the program Like I said This project was merrily academic in the church so there was a literature review that was initial. [00:08:08] Mitchell brainstorming and literature review just uncover a lot of the data that I wanted to work with uncovering the history guidelines the Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for air quality recording information visualization and sustainable h.d.i. studies later on I then moved into designing initial data visualization and these are based on the literature of Unifil brainstorming that I did based on. [00:08:36] The initial visualisations I then took them and tested them against popular data visualization are currently testing out the general public and surveys and then through the synthesis of the research I designed a platform. With the insights found from the formative research and then tested the platform with interviews. [00:08:58] With stuff survey of usability testing constantly iterating on the design of the platform. Well like I said there were takeaways found from the literature of you but I think the most important thing that we did early on in the discovery phase of this particular project was by porting sessions and brainstorming with the team so the whiteboarding sessions that we did were based on a lab and it was the title lab with the faculty director Dr Jessica Roberts and she led just brainstorming session with all of us trying to understand like what are the knowledge tasks that a user has when thinking about and when interpreted and you air quality data so we researched this we wrote this down we try to brainstorm all the different things that we want to incorporate in the survey and then steps initial data visualizations that could possibly work for this particular platform and these initial data visualisation designs essentially what I wanted to do was pick the type of chart that I was designing and the type of data that we wanted to incorporate in the chart together to make the most intuitive experience for the user and that was a really important part of this project early on so the initial data visualizations that I ended up creating I created 21 was a spider tar and you see this tart it looks very initial And I think the most important thing about this is that it showcases all the different the 5 hooey. [00:10:32] Like I talked about that monitor he was a specific location and then is highlighting the driver please and this is scientific terminology that we want to expose to the general public or to the user so they understand how the a.q.r. is generated the driver please drive he why for the day or that single value why because it is the x. value or it is the highest value that you're seeing in the standardized scale and so for example this particular one is a particular matter for the day and it's showing all of them simultaneously in one representation which we thought was very important the 2nd initial visualization I find with the calendar based chart this chart is an out of Lance view of historical and current air quality data in a specific location. [00:11:27] So each state box inside of this chart is interval scaled in through pixels to incorporate the actual If you i number and then its corresponding with the size of the diameter of the circle inside an interval scale as well as the color based on the risk category of that particular number so for example Saturday the 4th is green and green is good and that's what's indicated in the legend below the 100 full temp but I also designed that into the static representation with a breakdown of the clues that are specific to that day that the user is also able to see who I think he lives for that day what's the number of Apple is. [00:12:14] For the day and then making that connection which is also incredibly important for this project. After I design the 2 initial data visualizations I then tested them with very popular well known data visualizations for all of the that are currently out in the public 2 of them were more simplified like I talked about with that after a simplified application and then another one was more complex so it had a. [00:12:44] More scientific terminology involved in it it was a little bit more complex to read and I found through quantitative analysis that the informative the highest performers were my 2 charts is good but I also want to include the characteristics found in the preference and usefulness highest performers which were the simplified charts understanding why they were the highest the former So there's those 2 categories and then incorporating that in the. [00:13:13] Design to make sure that I'm covering all bases and the research synthesis that I also gives which is qualitative research that this I did something called affinity diagramming which you know at a high level is essentially grouping insights from open ended survey questions together and then finding trends based on these insights laddering you higher level categories so group the grouping of trends you'll see once you map the different insights together and the high level categories that I found based on the grouping of friends during a set of the diagramming were there were 5 readability color terminology context. [00:14:01] So the 5 categories really rose the remainder of my project and the project for me moving forward to trying to keep interest consideration all of these 5 criteria when designing the form and the interactivity that the sly. So after I looked at these 5 higher level type of worries I wanted to start the actual design of my interactive platform and so I took the 2 initial data visualization designs that I created merge them together and I did this by incorporating the gluten profile or the shape inside of the spider chart that I designed inside of each calendar date that I created or designed in the initial calendar based chart and that I tested in the survey and so I merged both of them together to create this one for you or the 1st you that I created or my interactive data platform I took into consideration the 5 higher level scenes or categories found from the research census and then included them as design criteria for Graph readability I really wanted to focus on visualizing the will sleep data color to inform these or risk categories terminology provide explanations for major pollutants context and scale really taking into consideration. [00:15:37] The need for risk category legend in plain sight for the user to refer to so after I designed the 1st 2 I then went on to design a timeline for you and what does that make you I mean you for each for the state of visualization platform and each of you I wanted to make sure had like I said the scale and the legend so you can toggle between the 2 at any time. [00:16:05] What is a key ally of you I designed it so I think the elation So this is if you with the stimulation for users to learn how the a.q.r. is generated through interaction so you just can actually drag each circular element on the axes of this site or for us. [00:16:22] To change the corresponding values in the risk categories that you see is happening here with the 1st which is the. State and therefore the that initial state and then as the user drags the element along the axes of this diagram the particular matter of the police icon changes color and then the shape and side of the chart changes with color as well to indicate that changed I also changes to show that the right thing. [00:16:58] For information modal but also made sure to incorporate some cool mental learning that cereal for users so what is particular matter and what's the difference between pm 2.5 and 10 these are 2 monitor pollutants that. Are monitored by the e.p.a. and dictate for the day so I wanted to make sure to surface these explanations and explain terminology and jargon to use or the calendar view like I spoke out earlier combining the 2 initial data visualizations. [00:17:34] To glance every view of air quality over the course of a month to surface or pollutants many colors for purposefully included and select areas of the interface as well and always in companies by a secondary indicator which is the number. And then the timeline to you this is kind of an overview of the timeline b. or. [00:17:57] A high level overview so it is a graph with corresponding days write down in detail the on the left and then the highest value is displayed as a line. Graph indicating the max value here so you can hover over each of these and see each day 7 day instead of the calendar date boxes a line or a bar after a design all of the 3 initial. [00:18:26] Values for my interactive platform I then decided it would be a great time to test the usability testing is a very important part of the design process especially if you're designing a platform that has multiple complex and has multiple different level levels and layers so the usability testing I did was moderated with help sync allowed and then I didn't have space as well as including a system ability scale so for the testing results. [00:18:59] For the most moderate of usability testing so this is remote because I wanted to make sure that I was able to test with participants in a safe way. The subspace questions were very important to include as well just given kind of an overview of how to to the pens. [00:19:18] Found various functions and features in the interface understanding is kind of a formulaic benchmark for the overall usability of this interactive display and the sufferer was 70 which is meaning that it's pretty good so far there's a lot of improvement to be done but it's good to kind of as a baseline and last say just to become the sort of time. [00:19:42] For future work I think that he was an important metric and I really wanted to. Do this project because I thought it was a fantastic way to really you know engage with a few I understand how that if you like. That are represented to the general public more and more actually seeing companies terms with the fact that the public houses desire to engage and interpret relevant to textual data I see this. [00:20:14] Recent update actually. That was recent I think it was in the summer 2020 and they lose in textual information from any Instead of just including the number or including a scale with the actual color risk categories are below the number and then a dash with the for example in this picture is 50 dash good so that's that additional information user to interprete along with a q.r. number so the successes were. [00:20:49] For this project I invented a new way visualise multiple pollutants in a data visualization which was very interesting and it was great to work with the team and with the lab on it and there were challenges to the project to their challenges every project I would say working code at time step how did challenges but overall it was a tough a project and it was a really great opportunity to work with. [00:21:16] Different folks. With really engaging and important information so thank you very much and with that I'd like to pass on to not going to talk about his work Matt are you there yes I'm here I'm ready to go button press your screen. All right. Let's say don't I My name is Matt Leno I graduated from the message guy program in spring 2020 almost a year ago and I've spent the past year turning my master's project into a startup known as Zen p.r. we're rebuilding like a virtual reality meditation classroom but more on that later in this presentation I'm going to focus on the journey that got me where I am today and hopefully spark some inspiration for anyone new to the programmers emitted students to forge your path in the world of h.c.i.. [00:22:30] So quick background check I life started at the young age of 17 when I was born and went to Georgia Tech for my undergrad degree in Computer Engineering 5 years and 3 internships later they gave me a diploma and I swore I was done with school forever and I started working at General Motors I don't Roswell Georgia as a software developer It was a very glorious job to be honest but it got me started doing backend web development front and whether dumb and even eventually a little bit a u.i. design which I found I kind of liked but had absolutely no idea what I was doing I had no training no one had ever taught me how to design u.i. or do you x. research or anything like that and I was craving that and a friend suggested I check out the h.c.i. program attack which I had somehow never heard of during my entire undergrad so I checked it out I looked at a few classes if you still buy and for the 1st time I looked at a list of classes and checked checked them out and said Wow I would actually enjoy doing homework for this class which made me do sort of like a mental double take but convinced me that I mean it's unlike apply for the program. [00:23:45] I was accepted and came back to my alma mater in fall of 2018 in the end that speech I program on the id church was interactive computing track. That some stuff happened to half years blew by faster than I can even understand and here I am running a start. [00:24:04] To that last little bit where something's happened that's why I'm here to talk about today what is that stuff that happened from starting the h.c.i. program to run ins and. So rolling back a 2nd about 2 years before joining the n.s.a. c.i. program a good friend of mine showed me his h.c.c. by the our system and it blew my mind and I decided this is going to be a big thing at the time I had no idea I was going back to attack but once I got accepted I was certain that I wanted to specialize in the arse Unfortunately it's not necessarily the clearest path to pursue there's no how to do the r one o one class at tech and while a few laughs of projects using the r. how to even get started or who to talk to is definitely not obvious but knowing what I wanted to do I reached out to Professor Janet Mary one of the more well known The oriented professors attack I thought somehow maybe she could just fast track me right into being a.v.r. expert instead she said no the best thing I could do was to take some time and learn the unity game engine learn how to you know code in developing a space that we are would eventually be applied I don't know she actually expected me to do it or not but I took that advice and in my 1st semester in the program I took a video game design it's a course that's open to anyone in the i.c. track and probably anyone else to if they want to but it was basically an introduction to. [00:25:39] So after learning the case of Seanie I came back to Dr Murray and said hey I did that then he said I should do can I get permission to join your p.r. studio course and it worked she let me again and so began my 1st real work in the are making it project you portray homelessness through a virtual soup kitchen in the same semester that I joined another studio course but this time in the College of Design is probably one of my favorite experiences at Tech because as someone on the interactive computing track design studios are not something you're required to purchase you need to get special permissions and overrides to go into the the i.v. track courses but I was fortunate enough to convince Professor Way way that I would be a valuable asset to his studio basically promising that I know how to code and make the things that everyone else wants to design. [00:26:32] And he let me Little did I know that the freedom and resources afforded by that class would let me work on 2 more of your projects in that same semester the chance to imagine twitch the twitch streaming platform n.p.r. and the earliest prototypes of the n.p.r.. So also of course in your 2nd semester in the h. I program everyone is in a mad rush to find a summer internship I knew that I could be a us designer anywhere but I still really wanted to stay on the b r track unfortunately there's not that many options for internships like that but I set my sights kind of high and thanks to having this 1st d.v.r. project on my portfolio I managed to land a position as a us design intern a Google under u t v r t it was a really really cool opportunity and a really great learning experience and I'm just super grateful I got to do the. [00:27:25] Same semester as a busy semester it's like probably one of the craziest semesters that same semester we're all also task of getting into teams and choosing our master's project. Readmitted students I'm sure here I'm talking about the massive project this is one it starts to become real in your 2nd semester so in my experience there are 3 ways you can go in trying to figure out what you want to spend the next year doing your project on one because I'm a team of people that you like and brainstorm ideas together you can find a professor that you like and see if they have any cool projects or you can have a really cool project idea and figure out the rest later you can't tell I chose number 3 and I wanted to do our work and I was really really motivated to do something with mental health and meditation building on the early prototype I had creating ways studio course I had no idea who I'd work with or who my advisor would be but figuring that out was what came quickly after that we had a project pitch session where my meditation idea kind of sparked the interest of another senior program Rachael Feinberg who despite barely knowing me signed on to work together for the next year. [00:28:37] We don't started searching for a professor and found Dr Rose Arriaga it was absolutely amazing. And at 1st you know when we were looking for a professor I was thinking we want someone who like specializes in the r But we quickly realised that we needed someone who would offer insights and expertise in places we had gaps not places we already knew how to work at and it's not like a professor with the our expertise is going to like the project for us so Dr Arriaga is research heavy experience with a crossover of health and technology just felt like such a good fit for us as we try to try to focus on like the mental health space but I'll never forget what Rosa said to us and one of our 1st meetings don't want to take this project seriously I don't have time to advise you I remember when she said that Rachel I looked at each other like my God what have we gotten ourselves into. [00:29:30] But we kind of reframed we took our call to we took that as like a call to action and put 110 percent into the project over the next year I can just say I'm really really grateful for that jumpstart that Dr r.e.i. gave us even if it was kind of scary at the time. [00:29:47] So with that early fire that Rosa set under us we put our absolute all into the master's project we did a ton of Design Research United Nation experts interviewed experienced meditators conducted surveys ran a diary study. We did a ton of this goal and digital affinity mapping and I swear I was basically dreaming about your boards by the end of the project we built an actual v.a.r. prototype with 8 real 25 minute meditation lessons which maybe doesn't sound like much that's a lot and we ran a 6 week launch a 2 mil study with 15 participants right as the world was starting to go code crazy then more Mira boarding we analyze that insane amount of data we have collected That's 150 study visits when you think about it and all I can say is this project was a beast but I absolutely loved working on every minute. [00:30:44] And it turns out what we did actually produce some really really awesome did to simply significant results in our participants improving a bunch of standardized Mental Health Metrics and just making them feel good helping them learn to meditate. I stead to myself it's Don't many masters projects die after the students graduate the benefits of all their hard work in research never reach the real world or the people who need it what if we took this further this actually help somebody. [00:31:14] So began the start of adventure I found guidance through 2 programs around tac a.t.c. the Advanced Technology Development Center which is basically a start of incubate are open to anyone with a focus on educating founders on how to start and the Create x. start of accelerator which is a very awesome I application program your attack which provides mentorship and resources to really get you off the ground and expose you to other startups coming out of the school I spent this past summer diving into all things start up with both of these programs and moving into a completely new community straight out of the h.c.i. community right into this world of founders and mentors of marketing and finances and incorporation and and so much more it's a completely new world and I mean these 2 programs were fundamental to me making it I'd say a big tip I give to anyone that's like interested in going this route is that these programs complement each other very very well I would not be where I am without the guidance of both of them a.t.c. taught me how to do customer discovery which is basically you x. research applied to marketing and create excuse me the resources to just get started in the startup or l. or I had basically no idea what I was doing. [00:32:31] Since then I think there are still days rife still feel like there's no idea where I have no idea what I'm doing but I think I'm coming to accept that's part of the startup game there's no clear path that works for everyone and nobody above you know boss to tell you what's right or wrong or what to do you have to find your own way I don't like finding the arc through the a.c.i. program you have to make your own path and it can be scary involves a lot of uncertainty more than I ever imagined and that's not for everyone and I don't know if you can tell that I'm being genuine here this is not something for everyone but it's a really awesome path to walk involves a lot of motivation for me it's the dream that what we're building can have a real positive impact on the mental health in our society but it also involves accepting that sometimes you just can't sustain that motivation and need to rely on the people around you to help carry the weight I've been fortunate enough to have the help of awesome people and I can't emphasize enough how I don't think this is a journey I could be doing on my own it's something that takes a team from Rachel and Rosa to Jago a Kearny c.i. student my friend Mike from e.t.v. Our who work on development with me to my friend Eric who drives the marketing vision in my amazing girlfriend Tiffany and my family who just support me in too many ways to go into and even Dr had a man who's just been a friend to talk to this whole time yeah this would never have been possible without everyone I'm just grateful for that if you want to go to start a path I think the most important thing I'd say is make sure you build that web of support because it's not something you can do alone. [00:34:10] Don't tell you making a start up is not the easy mode sometimes it's far more terrifying than it is fulfilling but sometimes you get reviews from users saying the use your product every day and can't wait for your next update you can feel that spark of excitement and passion that something you're doing has value in the world and will make a difference in people's lives for me that keeps me going if you do this if you choose to walk this path learning to find that motivation everywhere is going to be a huge factor in whether or not you make it the start of fail because founders lose motivation though keeping that alive is really important. [00:34:49] There is so where are we now basically there's a lot of things you can get away with in a massive project that you can't do for an actual product that you're trying to sell so we've been doing a lot of development a lot of rebuilding in it revamping and upgrading wary we currently have a beta running through cycle us which is kind of like a a pre official store for the Oculus class the our platform we're planning to launch in the Oculus store soon and currently we're working as an industry sponsor for a couple of 8 c.i. teams here in the program to keep doing research that supports n.p.r. which if it's something that you're interested in being a part of as you move through the a.c.i. program we're here we're out and we'd love to support more students in projects in p.r. and all those things so just reach out and if you want to learn more about Zen p.r. or have questions about start apply for meditation or v.r. in general feel free to reach out I'm always down to sort of a meeting I think I'm completely out of time so if. [00:35:48] There was an awesome continue on Hi everyone I'm from the next big earner the parent time current crinkly something. Let me know if everyone can see my screen. Dr Diamond can enjoy them with the. Awesome awesome us of a 4 star just want to throw this out there I know we made it out of time but I just wanted to go initiated linked in the chat there's a link to my actually prototype and or the life site as well as my link then the driving question that you are not at that I feel free to catch me on and then it would be happy to commit so jumping right in that I haven't either and today I have the sharing a little bit about my journey in the program as well as get a little bit of what I did with my mouth just project before I jump in does anyone to acquire a caption I just need to throw this out there so I can start them on my end it's not that I will keep going but that changes if you need m p p to let me know I was on the one but still a little bit about me I come from an engineering background of a similar to mad story where I graduated with electrical engineering and started working as an engineer and when a company has kind of figured out that this is in pretty what makes me tick makes me want to get up and go to work and so for me I will always be passionate about accessibility and so that was my main motivation for wanting to get into the so grab was to make a cardio switch and truly go find my passion in the intersection of accessibility in the user experience you have as we've been calling it and so just for I jump to do deep into that as the what a few who have not heard about accessibility it's really providing equitable access to products services pretty much anything you want people regardless of disability as a person with a disability myself because it's a way to which my hard wired. [00:38:04] Do you really need more than just you know that understanding of equity and you know humanitarian considerations I think that and I believe that it really has everyone I think of my grandfather who lost his vision and you know today if he were alive he would be able to experience so many things with the advent of screen reader in voice soul and the list goes on a level when technology products are badly designed to create barriers that exclude people from accessing them and to leave the power of the web as the inventor of the world by that fact is in that universe that it's late you want to make sure everyone can access it and that is what I wanted to focus on and I do you want to experience that exclusion during my possumus or your your in my program we get a lot of opportunity for all of us seem to have a lot of projects but we also get opportunities to work with different industry partners and we were working on an industrial partner or the next recipe project in a horse and a stall and we were at the end of the project on that last year and never forget that last year we set out on the table and remember talking to the ladies who were giving us a lot of feedback order on a project and one of them said to us. [00:39:35] Start hence you know for making us feel included and for being a voice of the team it just does for me was very instrumental in cementing that desire or for wanting to work with an accessibility and all this is happening last in for 29 pm and now we fast forward a couple months straight and go over 90 minutes and everything changed and going to that's when I kick started my mouth just tragic. [00:40:04] Well that has affected everyone around the globe in so many different ways and just to be dealing with those complex issues that we never faced before but it was interesting because it also explores the different gaps and barriers within the field of accessibility and how now more than ever will you actually successively you know we think about everyday operations the people attending meetings and working with each other all around the bill will we have to make sure that we can be dilutive we have to make sure that people are feeling today and they're able to get to what we need to get door but we're also be cognizant of everyone's needs I'm still thinking about you know what the user experience of an even plate where we're creating this experience for people that match it with their billet has an interest. [00:40:59] To do you see huge art on building the text equitable experiences. This is a quick snapshot from the mikes tucked into the design same lab which the great job of not just pointing out well known disability like having vision loss or political fodder but even less than trivia situational disabilities I think about when I'm coming upstairs with Off I go see bags and what hands and I don't want to put them down and I want to make sure I can get everything done in one trip if so I'm going to have to deal with something with a knob was it if I had a handle I could use my elbow and open a door but the same is true for someone who maybe just had the functionality of their one arm and they were carrying their groceries they could tell you that you're trying to make sure you're being inclusive for everyone and for this a lot of things really got me thinking you know what can I do as part of my Will you really need Bill other to be more intuitive after that was my starting point for my master stretching. [00:42:04] Looking about how assessment is so important and how we do need to bring that moving to you x. And so all my hypothesis as I started digging people was you know sure we have these guys we have all these different things but how can we really bring more people into the conversation how can we use storytelling for really changing the way people look at accessibility and for sharing those resources out and so as a lot of people one thing that I found was there might be a lot of different types of results as again there's implementation based resources where you can see the guide says framework things like that or there's education these resources like conferences and other weird stuff you can learn about excess of the b.b.c. sources. [00:42:54] How the people how the people who are working in accessibility and how can we deal from them that's something that was done by Yahoo where less than one in 9 new hires have ever heard of excess their technology think about that for a 2nd that is huge we are having to deal with so many different things going on and we're going to have to design for so many different people but if people don't know about it how are we going to design that what kind of product how we could do 30 or receive inside of excluding people you know now it is in the form of lawsuits which whether it was the 1st to be our lawsuit that actually hit a couple months ago where someone file a lawsuit due to the lack of captions n.p.r. or the Wonder doormen or where one could order pizza using that screen reader and Domino's was sued over that but actually people have a question of excluding people from those products I don't want to use something that excuse my friends if you would my grandparents exclude people I love. [00:44:06] And that was my mean motivation for really working in this space to really figure out how we can really get more access to the knowledge to sufficiently using story that make it all just a quick snapshot of the project was sad really sad story foundation for my overall project where we wanted to explore and understand the different knowledge means of people who work within us and accessibility and to really explore the gap a knowledge for me in the question has always been how can I made sure everyone out there for years supported to rebuild accessibility into the process and that's how the People Act It was one that's what I want to talk talk to about Doc be all about it we are not going to have time to really get into the nitty gritty which is another reason why I wanted to share the link to the collective in the track also reach out to me if you have other questions but risk of high level highlights of the project as well as a high level God's eye view of the different things that happen and how do you have to share the impact of this work as well as where this is going and then we'll wrap up. [00:45:22] So to constrain it from my office project again starting with the Hugo and starting with that in the center or we focus on people who were interested in accessibility but were not currently working in an exceptionally focused role we wanted to understand their knowledge needs and gaps and so that's kind of what the constraints are though and yours again a high level map of everything that happened and shows all the different activities again we don't have time to jump into each and every one of them but it started like any of us and our design process where the start of the Hugo's started exploded for the search and then it was creating the start of the design process and there were a lot of things that happen in tandem and then there were a lot of things that also happened sequentially so we have the preferred method again we're not going to jump into details on that but all of these different activities really helped solidify my belief and my passion and access to the for me but also to me it's like a really good learning experience for understanding how I can apply accessibility it's not just nice and light but even my processes and I'll be intuitive or meetings I might be cognizant of everyone's needs when I'm posting because it's a pretty design work shop and I'm using tools are accessible that I intuitively as well want to avoid it starts with that one point and I think the most important thing for me and I made mistakes lot of mistakes was you have to start somewhere still for those if you want a God who you don't have a lot of access to the or have not because starting point people on Starting Point don't get over and it's very easy to reorganize with the spirit because there's many things that jump out at you and it was little that Johnny that I really created sharpie to help the little jabs for people b.c. sauces storytelling. [00:47:20] Powerful because I caught to meet so many different people who had so much to say and have to have a perspective to me and of you rather talk to people as of today which all these companies people from all these companies are after the under the collective currently only 9 have been featured on the website but they are adding more and more as we speak every single day and there are many powerful messages that came out of this and this particular one was very close to my heart when I started this tragic my post reward for myself for was if only one course of benefit from this that's a win for me and to your house speaker about her experience using the collective was was a really big win for me but I had to provide the impact for me and my goals and for maybe some other people who were mine then to the users but it's created that ripple effect and empowered others out there to the negro that accessibility grew on except maybe John in that company's it impact of people I really not considered at 1st this is someone who came across my site and she was actually creating access to the program in her company and it was amazing to see that you need to use the that people put this to do and it was really amazing to see that and so the highlight of this overall experience for me was to interview my idol gently sorry who is the chief excessively officer of Microsoft and also to interview other leaders and find and create my own network of amazing excessively professionals who start me so much during the journey. [00:49:10] And so all this world is not going to stop we started last spring and they're still continuing adding more interviews finding more ways to really create value I shared my story through that that I stepped on as well as at these other conferences where this work is the opposite and they're hoping in the future to create an advisory board for the ship to collective and potentially they can down the nonprofit drought we're still in talks about that specifically model pieces out and really trying to see how we can create more value by partnering with other organizations so I don't have a lot of information and I don't we are running out of time but I just wanted to touch on a couple of things especially for those of you who are coming into this program you learn a lot in this movie like drinking from a fire hose but it will totally be fulfilling it's going to be very fulfilling working and meeting all these amazing people in the field and as Matt said if you have a passion in something take for me and there was a class I thought that only focused on accessibility but you got to make it your own if you're even bashing about an area there's so much flexibility in the so grab that you can see if your passion and really beat it into the fugitive and law and what you want to learn out of the thing even though I personally was working alone on the subject I'm really launched to leverage my resources and that's one thing you are full on you're not only working bees but you also have opportunities to develop other spheres that will really help you down the line so I want to give you with one thing don't ever feel like you are alone find your mentor find a our life and how do you think about progress even your journey I think this week in which you can help each other all get into whatever you want to your conversation in whatever you build and creating. [00:51:06] We have our work to be done still on whining Let's go make this happen and so I believe in us thank you Adam I've been dying on Dr Kerry believes and my other friends and colleagues in advice going to really get me going I want to endure and just open this up for any questions but if you know I have other questions feel free to reach out to me and then c.c. to check on the computer that they're even if you I'm looking at excess maybe I would love to share stories a piece reach out you know well thank you very much indeed thanks to Matt and adroitness Well the presentations were wonderful and I hope it gives a flavor of the kind of work and research is going on among m.s.h. students to protect So we really don't have time for questions right now if you have a need for the speakers I know they love it if you reach out to them and ask if I can help pass along contact information I'm happy to do that so again thank you very much and for him it is students will look forward to spending more time with you in a week and are admitted student visit so look for more details. [00:52:24] And thanks very much.