SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

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Invited Talks

• 2015: Invited talk, George Mason University
• 2015: Invited talk, Arizona State University
• 2015: Invited talk, Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2014: Invited talk, UCSC Virtual Spring spotlight.
• 2014: Invited talk, The UCSC Chancellor's Reception for Newly Admitted High Achieving Students.
• 2014: Keynote speech, Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers (SASE) Western Regional Conference.
• 2013: Invited talk, The 13th Coleman Annual Conference: The Rights of People with Cognitive Disabilities to Technology and Information Access, Broomfield, CO.
• 2013: Invited talk, University of Colorado, Boulder, HCC community talk.
• 2013: Invited talk, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Rochester joint HCI seminar.
• 2013: Invited talk, University of Trento, Italy.
• 2012: Invited discussion. Science Pedagogy 2 Roundtable Session. Fourth international conference on Science and Society, UC Berkeley.
• 2012: Invited talk, guest of honor. Assisted Technologies Workshop, CRIM (Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal), Montreal, QC, Canada
• 2012: Invited talk, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan.
• 2011: Invited talk, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University.
• 2010: Invited talk, Game Accessibility Day, 6^th Games for Health Conference.
• 2009: Invited talk, Department of Computer Science, UC San Diego.
• 2008: Invited talk, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Chuorinkan, Japan.
• 2008: Invited talks, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba and Tokyo, Japan.
• 2007: Invited talk, The Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, ON, Canada.
• 2005: Invited talk, 6^th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway.
• 2004: Invited talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• 2004: Invited closing plenary speaker, 5^th annual recent Object Oriented trends conference, Bergen, Norway, 2004.
• 2003: Invited talk, the Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK.

Editorial Work

• Guest Editor, Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing journal ASSETS 2012.
• Book Editor, Assistive Technology for Blindness and Low Vision. CRC Press, 2013.
• Editorial Board Member, ACM Transactions on Accesible Computing journal
• Editorial Board Member, Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) International Journal
• Editor, ACM SIGACCESS Newsletter
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS - forthcoming: The Intergenerational Context as an Emphasis for Design.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS 8(2), 2008: Vocal Interaction: Beyond Traditional Automatic Speech Recognition.
• Book Editor, Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation. Idea Group, Inc., 2007.
• Book Editor, Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities. Idea Group, Inc., 2007.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of UAIS 4(1), 2005: Web and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Editorial Review Board Member, AACE/SITE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education/Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) Journals, 2004.

Programme/Organizing Committee Involvement

• 2007-now: International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS) Program Committee
• 2020: International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility mentor and SIGACCESS Awards committee
• 2014: 16^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Rochester, NY, USA (General Chair).
• 2012: 14^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Boulder, CO, USA (Program Chair and Program Committee).
• 2011: 13^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Dundee, Scotland, UK (Program Committee).
• 2010: 12^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Orlando, FL, USA (Mentor Chair, Program Committee).
• 2009: International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, Madrid, Spain (Program Commitee).
• 2009: 5^th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, CA, USA (Program Board member).
• 2009: 11^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Treasurer and Conference Registration Chair, Program Committee).
• 2008: The IASTED International Conference on Assistive Technologies, Baltimore, MD, USA (Program Commitee).
• 2008: 11^th International Conference on Computer Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Linz, Austria (Program Commitee).
• 2007: 9^th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Tempe, Arizona, USA (Doctoral Consortium Chair, Program Committee).
• 2006: 9^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop, User Interfaces for All, Bonn, Germany (Program Commitee).
• 2004: ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) Cambridge, MA, USA (Program Commitee).
• 2004: 8^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop User Interfaces for All, Vienna, Austria (Program Commitee).
• 2004: 2^nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Cambridge, UK (Program Commitee).
• 2003: 7^th ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Workshop User Interfaces for All, Paris, France (Program Commitee).

Panel and Session Organisations

• 2011: Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting Organizer: Accessible Games. ACM CHI, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• 2011: Workshop Organizer: 1st Workshop on Game Accessibility: Xtreme Interaction Design (GAXID'11) , Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Bordeaux, France.
• 2009: Workshop Organizer: Age matters: Bridging the generation gap through technology mediated interaction, ACM CHI, Boston, MA.
• 2008: Special Interest Group Organizer: Vocal Interaction, ACM CHI, Florence, Italy.
• 2007: Workshop Organizer: Striking a c[h]ord: vocal interaction in assistive technologies, games, and more, ACM CHI, San Jose, CA, USA.
• 2004: Panel: Technology as a means for enhancing the independence and connectivity of older people, ACM CHI, Vienna, Austria.
• 2003: Conference chairs of 2 sessions, HCII 2003 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece.
• 2003: Workshop organizer, HCII 2003 (International Conference on Human Computer Interaction), Crete, Greece.
• Panel: 2001: Special Topics of Web Usability. WebNet 2001 Conference, Orlando, FL, USA.

Service within UCSC

• UC Santa Cruz Faculty Community Networking Coordinator for Women Faculty in STEM (Academic years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020)
• Senate Committee on International Education (Academic years 2018-2019)
• Senate Committee on Committees (Academic years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016)
• Senate Committee on Research (Academic years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013)
• Faculty search committee member and diversity liaison, both Computer Science and Computer Engineering
• Senate Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity (Academic years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010)
• Faculty search committee member, Computer Science
• Mentor, eWomen

Service outside UCSC

• NSF review panels (once a year).
• Mentor, MentorNet.
• Research Scholar Advisory Board member, UC ADVANCE PAID.