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Welcome to the October 2019 issue of the ACM SIGACCESS newsletter. This issue highlights the upcoming ASSETS 2019 Workshop AI Fairness for People with Disabilities and features eight of its position papers. Additionally, you will find an article on the benefits of accessibility topics in course curricula.

The first article introduces this year Workshop at ASSETS 2019, written by the workshop organizers, Shari Trewin, Meredith Ringel Morris, Stacy Branham, Walter S. Lasecki, Shiri Azenkot, Nicole Bleuel, Shiri Azenkot, Phill Jenkins, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

The following eight articles are a subset of the position papers to be featured at ASSETS 2019 workshop:

  • TOWARD FAIRNESS IN AI FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: A RESEARCH ROADMAP
    Anhong Guo, Ece Kamar, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach and Meredith Ringel Morris
  • FAIRNESS OF AI FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: PROBLEM ANALYSIS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
    Jason White
  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FAIRNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF ACCESSIBILITY RESEARCH ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING
    Sushant Kafle, Abraham Glasser, Sedeeq Al-khazraji, Larwan Berke, Matthew Seita and Matt Huenerfauth
  • WHAT IS THE POINT OF FAIRNESS? DISABILITY, AI AND THE COMPLEXITY OF JUSTICE
    Cynthia L. Bennet and Os Keyes
  • DESIGNING ACCESSIBLE, EXPLAINABLE AI (XAI) EXPERIENCES
    Christine T. Wolf and Kathryn E. Ringland
  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DIGNITY OF RISK
    Emily Shea Tanis and Clayton Lewis
  • FAIRNESS ISSUES IN AI SYSTEMS THAT AUGMENT SENSORY ABILITIES
    Leah Findlater, Steven Goodman, Yuhang Zhao, Shiri Azenkot and Margot Hanley
  • UNINTENDED MACHINE LEARNING BIASES AS SOCIAL BARRIERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
    Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong and Stephen Denuyl

This article also includes an article from Kramer on “PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM A SURVEY TO MEASURE THE BENEFITS OF ACCESSIBILITY AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN TOPICS IN COURSE CURRICULA”. Kramer presents the preliminary results from a survey gauging the benefits of taking accessibility and Universal Design topics highlighting students interest and career benefits.

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