Anne Marie Piper

Affiliations

• UCI Department of Informatics, Associate Professor
• UCI Accessibility Research Collective, founding member
• UCI Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology (CREATE), Associate Director
• UCI Master's in Human-Computer Interaction and Design (MHCID), Faculty Director

Research Highlights

• A core area of my research involves studying, designing, and building new digital tools for accessible work and content production. With colleagues at UCI and Northwestern, we received a $2M NSF Future of Work Award to study work practices and tools for blind and low vision information workers. We also received a $1.2M NSF Medium Award to study and design the future of content production tools for blind and low vision people.
• I have written extensively on understanding technology and online life among older adults, including issues of ageism in technology design and what it means to age online in the context of disability. Much of this work was supported by an NSF CAREER Award and EAGER Award.
• My work also understands participatory design methods involving people with complex communication needs (e.g., dementia, aphasia, trauma) and how co-design can be made more equiable and just.
• A previous NSF-funded project explored the design and evaluation of surface haptics for young children's science learning. See our project website for more details.

Contact

ampiper (at) uci (dot) edu

Donald Bren Hall
Department of Informatics
School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine