Making Accessible Climate Change Interventions
The design and implementation of any equitable intervention begins when we accurately understand different stakeholder perspectives. This fact holds true for technological interventions and global phenomena like climate change. The projects listed below aim to understand how disabled populations intersect with/have intersected with different climate change interventions.
- Accessibility audit of current climate change Interventions. This project will involve curating a list of climate change-specific interventions. We will then run an accessibility audit on each available intervention and document our findings.
- Perceptions of climate change among disabled populations. This project will conduct an online survey to understand the needs/values/perceptions of climate change among disabled communities.
- Public Transit x LA's climate goals. This project will explore transit-related strategies in LA's climate action plan.
Research Artifacts: Each project team will summarize their findings in a 5 - 8 page paper. There will also be an opportunity to document your research experience in an ACM Interactions reflection piece.
Meeting Expectations: In addition to working independently, student researchers should be prepared to participate in 1-hour team meetings.
To Apply: If this work interests you, I invite you to submit an essay using the following prompt: 1) Why are you interested in this project and 2) What has been your experience with climate change? (~2 paragraphs).
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.