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The Role of Accessibility in Human Persuasion The proposition is simple: Enabling technologies do more than provide certain people with new ways of doing things that they otherwise could not do. Enabling technologies change belief systems and reconstruct reality. In other words, assistive technology is a technology of persuasion and therefore a source of underlying political change.In this graphic presentation, we explore some of the ways in which assistive technology has impinged upon the fabric of society and how even small increments in ease of communication or physical access can be agents of persuasion.This session will draw upon the work of the Artificial Language Laboratory at Michigan State University and the Laboratory’s partners in providing pathways to human expression through the application of computer science, electronics, mechanical engineering, and linguistics. Speaker: John Bryson Eulenberg is Director of MSU’s Artificial Language Laboratory, which he co-founded in 1972. He teaches in the departments of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages; Computer Science; Audiology and Speech Sciences; and Telecommunication. He is a member of the core faculty of the African Studies Center. Founder and Senior Editor of Communication Outlook, the oldest publication in the field of augmentative communication, Professor Eulenberg is also a founding member of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC). His lab develops customized communication systems for nonspeaking persons, including multilingual systems. He has been active in assistive technology in developing countries. He has a special interest in computer-assisted access to artistic expression, including singing, instrumental music, graphic and plastic art, and choreography for persons with limited physical ability. Professor Eulenberg earned his B.Sc. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (major: Electrical Engineering/Computer Science; minor: German Literature). His M.A. is from Harvard University (Linguistics) and his Ph.D. is from the University of California, San Diego (Linguistics). He taught African Languages and Theoretical Linguistics at Stanford University from 1969 to 1972. He currently teaches elementary and advanced courses in the Hausa language of West Africa, an undergraduate course in Descriptive Phonetics, and a graduate course in Augmentative Communication. |
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