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UMSI Research. Misfitting with AI: How Blind People Verify and Contest AI Errors. Rahaf Alharbi,. PhD Candidate. Sarita Shoenebeck, Professor. Robin Brewer, Assistant Professor.

Disability centered conversations are often overlooked in the field of artificial intelligence

10/30/2024

New research by UMSI researchers highlights how blind people access AI technologies and navigate errors.

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UMSI research roundup. UMSI researchers at the 2024 ASIS&T & ASSETS conferences. Recent publications by UMSI faculty and PhD students.

2024 ASIS&T and ASSETS conferences: UMSI Research Roundup

10/22/2024

UMSI research and workshops for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, as well as the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

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Rackham Graduate School. 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. UMSI honorees. Ben Zhang, PhD candidate. Rahaf Alharbi, PhD canddiate. Shwetha Rajaram, PhD Candidate.

Three UMSI doctoral candidates earn Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

05/09/2024

The fellowship is highly competitive and provides tuition waivers and funding for one year.

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Robin Brewer stands with both her arms at her hips, wearing a sweater and smiling into the camera.

Brewer: “We don’t think about older adults enough as a society.”

03/04/2024

UMSI assistant professor Robin Brewer talks about her research on aging and disability and how to design more accessible technology.

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UMSI Research Roundup. Privacy, Accessibility, Bias. Check out UMSI faculty, staff and PhD student publications.

Privacy, Accessibility and Bias: UMSI Research Roundup

11/01/2023

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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UMSI research roundup. 2023 conference on human factors in computing services (CHI). Check out faculty and PhD student publications.

UMSI at CHI 2023: Research, workshops, courses

04/06/2023

Recent UMSI researchers and PhD student publications and workshops for the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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