AbigaleÌýStangl
- PhD, Technology, Media & Society ‘19
- ATLAS INSTITUTE
Abigale Stangl conducts research aimed at elucidating and reducing the social and technical factors that exclude people with disabilities from accessing information and developing critical media and information literacies.ÌýThrough this work–which sits at the intersection of information science, education, and design–she contributes to the design of vision to touch, touch to language, and vision to language information technologies that make information accessible non-visually. She also designs and implements inclusiveÌýeducational experiences, aimed at positioning all community members to be designers and makers.ÌýShe holds a ÌýPhD in Technology, Media & Society and a Masters of Science in Information Communication Technology for Development (ICTD), both from the ATLAS Institute at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, a graduate diploma in landscape studies from Lincoln University and a Bachelors of Environmental Design degree from ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ. She is a founding director of the Visionaria Peru program, an initiative to support clean cooking and women’s empowerment in Peru. ÌýHer doctoral advisor wasÌýTom Yeh, assistant professor of computer science.
After receiving her PhD in Technology, Media & Society, Abigale continued as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, supervised by Dr. Danna Gurari.Ìý
For more information about Abigale, viewÌýÌýand herÌý.ÌýAlumni pages are not always updated after graduation.​
Projects
Publications
Danna Gurari, Qing Li, Abigale J. Stangl, Anhong Guo, Chi Lin, Kristen Grauman, Jiebo Luo andÌýJeffrey P. Bigham. 2018.Ìý. InÌý2018 Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionÌýConferenceÌý(Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2018).
Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, andÌýTom Yeh. 2017.Ìý. InÌýProceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:ÌýÌý(Baltimore, Maryland, Oct.Ìý20 - Nov.Ìý1, 2017).
Abigale Stangl, Joanna Weidler-Lewis,ÌýCarlye Lauff,ÌýEmily Price, and Eric Fauble. 2017.Ìý.ÌýInÌýProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction DesignÌýand ChildrenÌý(IDC ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 334-339. DOI:ÌýÌý(Stanford, California, June 27-30, 2017).
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