CACTI Lab: Designing an Open Dataset about Climate Change & Disability

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: Publish the dataset. 
The goal is to share this dataset with others in the community who are interested in the intersection of Disability and Climate Change. 

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

• Describe any HMC/5C classes that you have taken in the past that might help with this project.
  • In this section, you can provide descriptions of specific class activities or modules/topics that you think would be beneficial.
• Describe a personal or class project (non-team-based) that required a substantial amount of programming experience
  • Provide a link to the code of the above project (this can be a GitHub link)
• In the same document, share your availability to do this research by answering the following questions:
  • Do you have space in your schedule to do research? (Yes/No)
  • Would you need to overload to add research to your schedule? (Yes/No)