CACTI Lab: Creating an Open Online Dataset

Over the past few months, the lab has compiled a dataset related to climate change and disability. This data, however, is not yet accessible to the research community. 

Goals of this project include:

  • Reviewing open datasets in the HCI and Accessibility community
  • Outlining three key goals and potential tools to use to create an open dataset
  • Create the open dataset

Stretch Goal: Allow users to create visualisations based on their selected criteria. 

Research Artifacts: Publishing the dataset.

To Apply: If this work interests you, I invite you to submit an essay using the following prompt:

  • Highlight any classes that you have taken in the past that might help with this project
  • Describe an individual personal or class project that required a substantial amount of programming experience
    • Provide a link to the code of the above project.
Name of research group, project, or lab
CACTI Lab
Why join this research group or lab?

My goal is to build a community of emerging scholars interested in leveraging human-centered methodologies to design for equity in future climate change interventions and public transit interfaces.

Logistics Information:
Project categories
Computer Science
Human-centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Student ranks applicable
Junior
Senior
Student qualifications
  • Students should have completed at least one project that required a substantial amount of coding.
  • Students should be proficient in at least one programming language
Time commitment
Fall - Part Time
Compensation
Academic Credit
Number of openings
1
Project start
Fall 2025
Contact Information:
Mentor
lkirabo@hmc.edu
Principal Investigator
Name of project director or principal investigator
Lynn Kirabo
Email address of project director or principal investigator
kirabo@cs.hmc.edu
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Hours per week
Fall - Part Time
Project categories
Computer Science (+2)
Computer ScienceHuman-centered DesignHuman-Computer Interaction