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  • Sean Levy

    Sean Levy

    Sean is a junior currently working to earn his B.S. in user experience design. He is also currently pursuing a minor in psychology. One of his main interests as a designer is addressing systems of oppression in design through user-centric design practices and critical design theory. He hopes to apply this interest to designing infrastructure…

  • Accessible Publics

    Accessible Publics

    Sessions will be scheduled at the participant’s convenience. Participants can choose to attend workshops with others or alone. In order to protect the anonymity of participants who may be at risk of legal action or state surveillance, payment for participation is not possible. However, all participants are entitled to any resulting design schematics and assembly…

  • Cyborg Imaginaries

    Cyborg Imaginaries

    Researchers at Purdue University are studying how disability and technology policy can change to make life better for people who use adaptive equipment and assistive technology. This survey is for US residents. Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/disabilitytechjustice If you use any of the following:• Mobility equipment like wheelchairs, scooters, canes, walkers, prosthetic limbs, and more• Dexterity equipment…

  • International Student Success

    International Student Success

    The CoLiberation Lab is recruiting Students with experiences of English as a secondary language and Faculty involved in graduate education about their experiences. Please email Rua Williams (rmwilliams at purdue dot edu) or Chorong Park (park1187 at purdue dot edu) to participate.

  • Doctors Are Dickheads

    Doctors Are Dickheads

    Have you had difficult interactions with medical professionals? Are you a medical professional that is concerned about patient-physician relationships? Do you remember the #DoctorsAreDickheads hashtag on social media? Did you ever participate in conversations about #PatientsAreDickheads on Reddit? If you said yes to any of these, we want to hear from you! Please consider participating…

  • Monaami Pal

    Monaami Pal

    Monaami is a second year UX Design graduate student in the Computer Graphics Technology Department at Purdue Polytechnic. Her research interests lie in user experience, psychology, disability justice, sexual diversity studies. She has done her undergraduate in Computer Engineering. Her current project, “Practicing Creative Arts for Emotional Self-Regulation,” aims to understand how creative expression is…

  • Chorong Park

    Chorong Park

    Chorong Park is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty at the University of Houston. Formerly with the Co-Liberation Lab as a PhD student, she leads research at the intersection of health, human–AI interaction, and social/assistive robotics, advancing autonomy and quality of life for older adults and users with specific access needs. She builds…

  • Bek Hamelin

    Bek Hamelin

    My name is Bek Hamelin. I’m a junior working towards a B.A. in anthropology here at Purdue. I’m also working towards a minor in plant biology. I’m interested in human-environmental-technological interactions. My career goal is to work in social science research. I’m currently an undergraduate researcher in environmental anthropology. I’m a member of a student-faculty…

  • Atharva Anand Dnyanmote

    Atharva Anand Dnyanmote

    Hello! I am Atharva Anand Dnyanmote, and I am a Masters in Computer Graphics Technology. I am currently specializing in UX Design. My research interests include promoting mental health in gamers, and accessibility technology design. I am also working with DORIS as a Qualitative researcher and as a UX Designer with Griffith Foods. I have…

  • Laila Dodhy

    Laila Dodhy

    Laila Dodhy holds an MSc in User Experience, with a focus on the accessibility of music from under-resourced languages. For her capstone project, she founded Gaana Mangwao (https://gaanamangwao.org/), a platform that makes previously obscure linguistic content accessible through automated transcription, transliteration, and editing. Her current research explores the impact of advancing AI-generated music on the…