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Emory James Edwards

User Experience Researcher

Headshot of Emory, a young White person with bleached grey hair and piercings, wearing glasses.

User Researcher, Accessibility Specialist, and soon-to-be Ph.D.

I've been involved in Human Computer Interaction research since 2016. I've studied topics as diverse as rumoring behavior on Twitter, queer communities on social media, and accessible design of voice assistants or inclusive imagery. For more info, check out my About page.
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My Research Portfolio

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Ethnography of Social Media Accessibility Community

A digital ethnography I conducted for my dissertation investigating a Discord community dedicated to accessible content creation and sharing on Tumblr.
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Studies on Hearing Aid-to-PC Interactions

 Three studies conducted while at Intel investigating the pain points and potential solutions (both technically and in user experience) for hearing aid users who want to connect their hearing aids to their computer.
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Synthesis of Work on Gaming with Motor Mobility Disabilities

Initial guided desk research and expert interviews were synthesized with prior qualitative and quantitative data into opportunities for innovation at the intersection of motor mobility disabilities
and gaming.

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Updates

March 17th, 2023

My journal article "How the Alt Text Gets Made:  What Roles and Processes of Alt Text Creation Can Teach Us About Inclusive Imagery" was added to the Just Accepted portion of the ACM Digital Library. For full paper see link here.

March 16th, 2023

I co-led a Webinar for the Great Lakes ADA Center on the topic of writing alt text for imagery depicting marginalized identities. Over 500 people attended the hour and a half long presentation!  The full webinar recording is here.

March 1st, 2023

I officially scheduled my dissertation defense, for June 13th, 2023 at 12pm over Zoom. If you're interested in attending reach out to me via my contact page and I can send you the meeting info!

Get In Touch.

For anyone interested in discussing research, job opportunities, or accessible computing, please see my Contact page.
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