ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept (2018-2019)

This project was a collaboration with the HCII and the Entertainment Technology Center. The goal was to include wheelchair users as peers in designing and developing inclusive play experiences and adaptive technology. Throughout the hackathon, they worked with tech makers, disability advocates, and student designers from the HCII and the Entertainment Technology Center, a two-year professional graduate program for interactive entertainment across fields.

"It places us as a peer and equal in the process of creation and that's different from how we've been treated," said co-organizer Theresa Devine, a video game designer, artist, associate professor at Arizona State University and wheelchair user.

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/october/chairjam-spins-hackathon-concept.html

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/blog/chairjam-puts-spin-on-hackathon-concept/

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/joyride/

Funded by: Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University ; The How Well? Project: Intersections of well-being and social justice; PI: Heather Kelley, Collaborator: Theresa Devine