Odaiba (Japan) May 2nd, 2025

Miraikan Accessibility Networking

A Post-CHI'25 Event

@ Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 14th, 2025 CLOSED

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About the Event

Our event will be held in-person, bringing together professors, researchers, students, and others working on or interested in accessibility-related projects. It offers a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate with peers, and have a good time in our facility.

Organized by: Miraikan, Accessibility Lab

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Speakers

Keywords: HCI, HRI, A11Y, NLP

Chieko Asakawa

Welcome Talk

IBM Fellow at T. J. Watson Research Center and IBM Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Concurrently serves as Chief Executive Director of the Japanese National Museum Miraikan.

Keywords: HCI, HAI, A11Y, NLP

Jeffrey P. Bigham

Keynote Talk

Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction and Language Technologies Institutes in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He also leads a Human-Centered Machine Intelligence Group at Apple.

Agenda

11:00am - 1:25pm
Registration
1:25pm - 1:30pm
Opening

By Dr. Hironobu Takagi
1:30pm - 1:45pm
Welcome Talk

By Dr. Chieko Asakawa
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Keynote Talk

By Dr. Jeffrey P. Bigham (20 min talk and 10 min QA)
2:15pm - 2:35pm
[20 minutes] Coffee-break
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Lightning talks (2 minutes)

By participants (to share their research)
3:35pm - 3:50pm
[15 minutes] Coffee-break
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Lightning talks (2 minutes)

Continuation
5:00pm - 5:05pm
Group Photo
5:05pm - 6:00pm
AI Suitcase; Tangible and Tactile User Interface Demonstrations

+ Access to the Miraikan Museum
6:15pm - 9:00pm
Reception

with views of Gundam and Tokyo's nighttime skyline

Accessibility Information

Live Captions: All presentations will have real-time captions using Zoom’s captioning feature or PowerPoint CC feature.
Presentation Best Practices: We strongly encourage presenters to speak clearly at an appropriate pace to support accurate transcription, and verbally describe any figures, graphs, or images on their slides to accommodate participants with visual impairments.

Location

Get directions to our facility

Address:

2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Japan

  • Email: miraikan.a11y.event@jst.go.jp
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2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku

Tokyo, Japan