Speaker: Dylan Fox

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Director of Operations @XR Access, Previously UC Berkeley Researcher & UX Designer, Expert on Accessibility for Emerging Technologies

Dylan Fox is the Director of Operations for XR Access, a research initiative of Cornell Tech. An expert on accessibility for emerging technologies, he advises groups such as Meta, the W3C, and the FCC on how virtual and augmented reality can be more inclusive. He chairs the annual XR Access Symposium and is responsible for many ongoing initiatives to connect disability advocates, technologists, academics, and other key stakeholders to solve difficult problems.

Fox is also a former researcher and Masters graduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on ways to leverage augmented reality for people with low vision; and has led UX design on entertainment applications used by millions of people.  Fox’s work is at the forefront of making virtual and augmented reality accessible for people who have disabilities.

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Session

Accessible Innovation in XR: Maximizing the Curb Cut Effect

Accessibility is often seen as the last step in many software projects - a checklist to be crossed off to satisfy regulations. But in reality, accessible design thinking can lead to a fountain of features that benefit disabled and abled users alike.

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Date

Wednesday Nov 20 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Pacific DEKJ

Topics

XR Accessibility a11y UX Research

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Session

Panel: Next Generation Inclusive UIs

Augmented, Virtual, Extended, and Mixed Reality unlock the ability to integrate the power of computers more seamlessly into our physical three-dimensional world. However, designing the user experience of these next-generation UIs to be as inclusive as possible comes with a lot of challenges.

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Date

Wednesday Nov 20 / 03:55PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Pacific DEKJ

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