AI, Data, Community – CSCW 2024 trip report
November 18, 2024Tech4ALL Digest, Dec 3
December 3, 2024
Our Progress
- We had a great time attending CSCW 2024 in San José, Costa Rica! We were excited to see lots of shared interests in the ethics of AI and communication technologies. Read the trip report from Shaomei.
- Updates from our PJMF funded project on inclusive speech AI with the stuttering community: we thank Aidan Sank (SPACE), Maya Chupkov (Proud Stutter), and Rong Gong, Tracy Wang, Jia Bin (StammerTalk) for their valuable inputs that helped us scope our work and lay out the methodology. If you are interested at being involved with this project and/or sharing the perspectives from the stuttering community, please reach out at contact@aimpower.org.
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