Announcements
- Follow up on last Thursday’s group exercise: please add your SSI Statistic to this spreadsheet.
- NBWC poll results: 20+ respondents, >=70% interest to attend
- Please answer today’s poll: Plutopia Talk next Tuesday?
- Dibner “Touch This Page” Opening (see flyer at the bottom of this page)
- External Announcements: Events / Opportunities
- Thanks for keeping up with your blog posts.
Agenda
- Keywordsย Scribe, Marker Person
- Medical Bias Media
- SSI Stats for Background Research
- Affirmative Action (follow up on blog assignment from Session 8)
- Some Home Tech
- Human-Centered Resource, aka “Interview” Planning.
Please refer to theย (Abridged) Field Guide: Planning Inspiration Exercisesย for this process.- Brainstorm: Who specifically will you interview?
- Specific People in target audience
- Experts (especially at NYU)
- Local Organizations (especially at NYU). See theย Class Resources Pageย for suggestions.
- Other people associated with your direct audience
- Get into your midterm or SSI groups. Choose roles:
- Document Writers
- Photographers
- Sticky Note Wranglers
- Go to this directory. Copy the document named [COPY THIS]. Then rename your copy with your name(s), and follow the directions in the document.
- Brainstorm: Who specifically will you interview?
Assignments
- REQUIRED Blog post, due Thursday 2/27: Based on todayโs planning session:
- Make and document initial contact (e.g. via email) with an organization and/or individual who has the salient social identity (SSI) of your target audience. You might want to contact a few people (users, experts, etc.) to ensure that you receive at least one response ASAP. If you plan to work with other students for your interview, donโt forget to CC them.
- Be sure to consider cultural sensitivities in the way that you name the Salient Social Identity. (E.g. vision-impaired vs. blind, working-class vs. poor, differently-abled vs. disabled.) If possible, se the terminology that your target interviewee uses.
- Schedule a time to interview them.
- When you get in touch, ask an ice-breaker question to the org and/or individual. The ice-breaker question should help you start learning about their pain points, experience of bias, and other specifics that can inform your project.
- Feel free to use the sample letter below. You are welcome to CC me on the letters as supporting documentation for your blog.
Sample Letter:
Dear [Insert Name Here],
I am a student in the โDiversity and Technologyโ class (http://senseandscale.com > Diversity) at the NYU School of Engineering. I am working on a project to serve the needs of [insert Salient Social Identity here], and I found your name in the process of researching people who might help my team to understand these needs. Would you be open to a short interview before March 7?
If you have any questions about the course, feel free to contact my professor, Arlene Ducao (arlduc @ nyu.edu).
Thank you very much for your time,
[Your Name]
External Announcements: Events
- Feb 25: The NYU Border Talks series seeks to frame conceptual approaches to borders and explore engagements with spaces of mobility/immobility.
- Feb 25 ACM webinar: Autonomous Manipulator Solutions for Mobile Robotics
- Feb 25: NYU Law: Gender Equality and the Rule of Law
- Feb 26: NYU LGBTQ+ Queer Career Connect
- Feb 26 ACM webinar: Fairness in Machine Learning
- Feb 28: NYU Co-Opting AI: Whiteness
- Feb 28: Touch This Page! Exhibit opening (see flyer below)
- March 5: War and Algorithm book launch
- March 2&3: NYUWomxn100 celebrates the lives, pursuits, innovations, and achievements of womxn of transgender, non-binary, and cisgender experiences
- March 3: NYU APA Institute: Asian Adoption in the Wake of War.
- March 29: INCLUDENYC SYMPOSIUM: Disability in Families
External Announcements: Opportunities
- NYU Skirball “Representation Matters” campaign for LGBTQ+ Youth.
- 2020 Victory Congressional Program seeks LGBTQ+ applicants
- Theater to the People seeks participants
- Interested in graduate management studies? Check out MIT IDDEAS
- NYU Diversity Arts Festival seeks projects
- WomenHack: Join one of our invite-only events focused on connecting top female engineers, designers, and product managers with opportunities at diversity first companies.
- Scholarship Applications Now Open: Tapia Diversity+Computing conference
- Van Alen Institute Student Competition: Reimaging the Brooklyn Bridge
- Grace Hopper Conference of Women and Computing: Scholarship Applications now open
- Ford Foundation looking for Technology+Society Fellows (FT Job)
