Abigale Stangl conducts research aimed at elucidating and reducing the social and technical factors that exclude people with disabilities from accessing information and developing critical media and information literacies.听Through this work鈥搘hich sits at the intersection of information science, education, and design鈥搒he contributes to the design of vision to touch, touch to language, and vision to language information technologies that make information accessible non-visually. She also designs and implements inclusive听educational experiences, aimed at positioning all community members to be designers and makers.听She holds a 听PhD in Technology, Media & Society and a Masters of Science in Information Communication Technology for Development (ICTD), both from the ATLAS Institute at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, a graduate diploma in landscape studies from Lincoln University and a Bachelors of Environmental Design degree from 兔子先生传媒文化作品. She is a founding director of the Visionaria Peru program, an initiative to support clean cooking and women鈥檚 empowerment in Peru. 听Her doctoral advisor was听Tom Yeh, assistant professor of computer science.
After receiving her PhD in Technology, Media & Society, Abigale continued as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, supervised by Dr. Danna Gurari.听
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Publications
Danna Gurari, Qing Li, Abigale J. Stangl, Anhong Guo, Chi Lin, Kristen Grauman, Jiebo Luo and听Jeffrey P. Bigham. 2018.听. In听2018 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition听Conference听(Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2018).
Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, and听Tom Yeh. 2017.听. In听Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:听听(Baltimore, Maryland, Oct.听20 - Nov.听1, 2017).
Abigale Stangl, Joanna Weidler-Lewis,听Carlye Lauff,听Emily Price, and Eric Fauble. 2017.听.听滨苍听Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design听and Children听(IDC 鈥�17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 334-339. DOI:听听(Stanford, California, June 27-30, 2017).
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