Due to the inclement weather, nasty roads, and various school/work cancellations, we are offering a remote join option for today’s LOCUS: Access in a Digital Environment. We will livestream the session via Zoom. Instructions for using Zoom are included below. The livestream will not be recorded, but there will be audio and screencast recordings of the talks available on our website in a few weeks.
**Zoom instructions**
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://msu.zoom.us/j/4764783057
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This mini-symposium will take place on February 24th at 3pm in the library’s REAL classroom (3 West).
For this LOCUS, we have partnered with the Experience Architecture Program and the Museum Studies Program as the topic of access is of particular import to those fields. Find out more under the LOCUS tab here.
Please register to attend here
Description:
While more websites and digital experiences are created, we must ask questions about access. We are looking forward to presentations that engage with one or more of the following issues:
- Who are the multiple audiences for websites, online collections, or mobile apps?
- How do the affordances of various digital environments impact the notion of access?
- What assumptions are made about user ability to interact with these digital environments?
- What design decisions are made to encourage successful navigation in these environments?
- What constitutes successful navigation of a digital environment?
- How can different modes of engagement facilitate use for diverse communities?
We are especially receptive to hearing about works in progress relating to research, teaching, or any other type of work that wrestles with the challenges of access in the digital environment.
Image from Lev Manevich’s project “On Broadway”, http://www.on-broadway.nyc/app/#