Katta Spiel (they/them)
@katta.bsky.social
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queer crip in tech research, hearing sign language enthusiast
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
GITT 2026
4 days ago
Belgium not international enough? Fine. Our third and final keynote is none other than
@katta.bsky.social
from TU Wien 🇦🇹! Their work on Critical Access in Embodied Computing inspires
#design
and
#engineering
, ensuring that
#technology
reflects and supports
#diversity
- a perfect fit for
#GITT2026
!
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@sagaftra.org
legend
@frandrescher.bsky.social
is in town. 😍
2 months ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Martina Lindorfer
3 months ago
Save the date:
@katta.bsky.social
and me are organizing the Austrian Computer Science Day
#ACSD
on June 1, 2026 at TU Wien with the motto CS in Modern Society: a Sign of the Times! More info and program coming soon here:
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/acsd
(CC)
@tuwien.at
&
@informatics.tuwien.ac.at
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Save the Date: Austrian Computer Science Day 2026
Join us on June 1, 2026, at TU Wien’s Kuppelsaal for the annual Austrian Computer Science Day!
https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/acsd
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Luigina Ciolfi
6 months ago
Thanks to
@katta.bsky.social
who virtually joined us at UCC to speak on Global Ethics Day...Plenty of food for thought, and brilliant reading suggestions, including this article by Hanne De Jaegher, "Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often imagine computers at work). But are thes...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
9 months ago
Warum Technologien, die für Menschen mit Behinderungen entwickelt wurden, oft an den Bedürfnissen Betroffener vorbeigehen und worauf es eigentlich ankommt, 👉 beschreibt
@katta.bsky.social
im Standard-Blog.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Zugang zu Technologien: Was wirklich zählt
Warum es weniger um futuristische Lösungen und mehr um Solidarität, Selbstbestimmung und einfache Zugänge geht
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000277671/zugang-zu-technologien-was-wirklich-zaehlt
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Joseph Lindley
10 months ago
Blogged about the survey I ran regarding the future of alt.chi within the
#chi
conference:
designresearch.works/blog/future-...
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Does alt.chi have a future? – Design Research Works
Survey results and a discussion on why we should preserve alt.chi
https://designresearch.works/blog/future-of-alt-chi
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Das wundervolle
@andererseits.org
Magazin hat einen Schwerpunkt zu Gehörlosigkeit. <3 Teil 1: Audismus
www.andererseits.org/als-die-welt...
Teil 2: Wahrnehmung
www.andererseits.org/zwischen-uns/
Teil 3: Pride
www.andererseits.org/was-macht-di...
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Als die Welt laut wurde - andererseits.org
Die Welt ist oft laut – und manchmal wird man selbst dabei leise. Ein Text über Audismus – also der Abwertung von Hör-Behinderungen – und welche Wege wir gefunden haben, damit umzugehen.
https://www.andererseits.org/als-die-welt-laut-wurde/
11 months ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Maartje De Meulder
11 months ago
In my recent paper "DeafinAI", I discussed the slippery slope of language and access rights in the age of AI. What starts as using AI in low-stakes situations can quickly expand into high-stakes areas such as healthcare. That slope seems even slipperier than I thought.
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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Why vaccination is important and the safest way to protect yourself
Find out how vaccines work, what they contain and the most common side effects.
https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/why-vaccination-is-important-and-the-safest-way-to-protect-yourself/
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Vagrant Gautam
11 months ago
Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!
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Call for Participation | Synthetic Data
Workshop on synthetic data at the Aarhus Conference 2025
https://synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/call-for-participation.html
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Christian Vogler
12 months ago
And yes, that’s a subskeet of sorts. If you are a hearing professor working with a signing deaf student, and haven’t learned to sign, please assess honestly why not.
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Christian Vogler
12 months ago
Oliver Suchanek and
@katta.bsky.social
at
#CHI2025
. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.
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Nanna Inie
12 months ago
Every head of department explaining his justification for why he hasn’t hired more women:
#CHI2025
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Oliver Haimson
12 months ago
I made a site to show all the trans/queer content at
#CHI2025
. There are 13 papers on Monday alone!
padlet.com/haimson/chi
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https://padlet.com/haimson/chi
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Robin
12 months ago
Our
#CHI2025
paper „Speculating Deaf Tech: Reimagining Technologies Centering Deaf People“ with
@katta.bsky.social
and
@mdemeulder.bsky.social
is finally out!
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🚀 See you on the Eyeth?!
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Speculating Deaf Tech: Reimagining Technologies Centering Deaf People | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713238
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Sometimes you receive an email that gives you that cozy feeling of a really good hug.
12 months ago
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It is with such... immense pride for the ACCESSTECH team, seeing how we already had the privilege to create such impactful work early on, that I present to you now our contributions to the CHI 2025 programme.
#chi2025
www.experiencing-access.eu/2025/04/22/a...
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ACCESSTECH @ CHI’25 – ACCESSTECH
https://www.experiencing-access.eu/2025/04/22/accesstech-chi25/
12 months ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Oliver Haimson
about 1 year ago
For those who will be at
#CHI2025
, hope you can join us for the CHI Queers Meetup! It will be on Monday 4/28 at a space near the conference. RSVP:
tinyurl.com/chiqueers
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I just quoted before but let me also add with everything bad going on in the world seeing how
@robinxtech.bsky.social
just keeps on excelling over and over again amazes me to no end.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Maartje De Meulder
about 1 year ago
Our paper won a Best Paper Award at
#chi2025
! It challenges the idea that Deaf tech should only be assistive. It presents alternative narratives that center deaf lives and show why we need Deaf-centred design in tech.
@robinxtech.bsky.social
@katta.bsky.social
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
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Conference Programs
https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/program/content/188899
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Maartje De Meulder
about 1 year ago
Over 275 responses from deaf ChatGPT users in Europe already. It is still possible to respond to the survey! Some preliminary results in the comments.
@robinxtech.bsky.social
@katta.bsky.social
@ninakt.bsky.social
tuwien193.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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I just said no to conference service. Would have loved to serve in that role and am fond of the conference. But it’ll be held in the US and I can’t feasibly exploit myself to contribute to events I am banned from joining. (Affects all trans/nb folks)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes
about 1 year ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Kirk Crawford
about 1 year ago
I'm running a paid ($80 per participant) research study for disabled and neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ romantic partners! Sign up here:
forms.gle/8U7HeYNSnWfw...
#LGBTQ
#Disability
#Neurodivergent
#Relationships
#AccessibilityResearch
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Study Exploring Communication and Technology in Disabled & Neurodiverse LGBTQIA+ Romantic Relationships | UMBC Study Application
Thank you for your interest in this research study! Please fill out this survey to let the research team know you're willing to participate. Research Purpose: This study will explore issues at t...
https://forms.gle/8U7HeYNSnWfwZcUi8
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Maartje De Meulder
about 1 year ago
@robinxtech.bsky.social
@katta.bsky.social
@ninakt.bsky.social
and I are investigating the experiences of deaf users in Europe interacting with ChatGPT. If you’re deaf, live in Europe, and are using ChatGPT, please fill in our survey, and share! 🙏🏻
tuwien193.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Here is a cute article that we just got published about how fat people create solidarity in online spaces hostile towards them. Maybe something to learn from in these times. 🧡
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Online communities are important spaces for members of marginalized groups to organize and support one another. To better understand the experiences of fat people - a group whose marginalization often...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3701186
about 1 year ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Mr Abbott
over 1 year ago
Surviving Whiteness In Games Co-edited by
@mahliann.bsky.social
,
@sabha.bsky.social
,
@cheeflo.bsky.social
,
@amaani.bsky.social
,
@katta.bsky.social
,
@outi.bsky.social
, Rilla Khaled, Cale Passmore & Kishonna L. Gray 14 essay collection examining whiteness in games
gamescriticism.org/volume-5-bon...
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VOLUME 5, BONUS ISSUE A: SURVIVING WHITENESS IN GAMES
FULL ISSUE PERMALINK (September, 2023) Introduction Bonus issue editors: Sabine Harrer, Mahli-Ann Butt, Rilla Khaled, Florence M. Chee, Amani Naseem, Katta Spiel, Cale Passmore, Kishonna L. Gray, O…
https://gamescriticism.org/volume-5-bonus-issue-a-surviving-whiteness-in-games/
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Did this interview a while ago and I really appreciated how they foregrounded the need for care and solidarity in tech research before we can even start thinking about developing new things. 🤗
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#5QW: Katta Spiel
“I think if we better understand power and care and solidarity, that also helps us to understand why there are so few disabled people in computer science.”
https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2712
over 1 year ago
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Felicia 'Liz’ Ewert
over 1 year ago
Das Adjektiv „weiblich“ ist medizinisch maximal unpräzise
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Sechs Jahre und eine Datenschutzbeschwerde später und meine Uni kann endlich den Titel den sie mir verliehen haben im System abbilden. Die TU hat sich übrigens gewundert, warum ich zur Beschwerde “eskaliert” habe.
over 1 year ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Ingrid Brodnig
over 1 year ago
Ein kleiner Auszug aus der gestrigen Diskussionssendung
#ImZentrum
- weil ich schon eher kurios finde, dass manchmal Personen über die Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit sprechen, die gerade mitten in einer reichweitenstarken Sendung ihre Meinung kundtun können
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over 1 year ago
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Got scolded by a reviewer once more that I really need to cite the works by Spiel et al. some more. Bit awkward.
over 1 year ago
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I was plagiarised apparently and while, sure, that’s rude. But also kind of flattering to know the work is so good it got published twice?
over 1 year ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)
over 1 year ago
Free Disabled Radicals zine by the Disability Action Research Kollective :
files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...
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Looking at travelling through five countries in less than 48 hours all by train. Only in Europe. 😅
over 1 year ago
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You can love a thing (like night trains) and still acknowledge the sleep deprivation it can bring along when the window blinds don’t fully close. 😵💫
over 1 year ago
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Am 6. Dezember um 14 Uhr gibts eine Demo für persönliche Assistenz beim Wiener Rathaus!
www.behindertenrat.at/2024/11/demo...
#PersoenlicheAssistenz
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Demo für Persönliche Assistenz am 6. Dezember 2024 – Österreichischer Behindertenrat
Menschen mit Behinderungen fordern die Beteiligung Wiens am Pilotprojekt Persönliche Assistenz.
https://www.behindertenrat.at/2024/11/demo-fuer-persoenliche-assistenz-2024/
over 1 year ago
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So, I didn’t post here in a while and suddenly I have several hundred followers in a few days? What happened?
over 1 year ago
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Ich war grad jemandes erster follower und irgendwie finde ich das ist ne ganz besondere Verbindung.
over 2 years ago
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Das Heft zu Behinderungen am Arbeitsmarkt von Dossier und andererseits ist übrigens extrem empfehlenswert.
over 2 years ago
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Bissi ironisch, dass
#LichtInsDunkel
dieses Jahr auch wieder die Schiene der unangekündigten Stroboskop Lichter fährt. 🤦🏻
over 2 years ago
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Die heute show stellt fest, dass Winfried Kretschmar Politik gegen Geflüchtete macht, aber tut so als wäre das neu. Ich bin deswegen vor knapp 10 Jahren bei den Grünen ausgetreten. Das ist also nix neues.
over 2 years ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Erik Marquardt
over 2 years ago
Man kann nicht einfach behaupten, dass man
#Seenotrettung
nicht kriminalisieren will, während man Rechtsverschärfungen durchpeitschen will, die klar dem UN-Protokoll widersprechen und praktisch nur zur Kriminalisierung genutzt werden.
taz.de/Strafen-fuer...
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Strafen für private Seenotretter: Faeser rudert zurück
Innenministerin Faeser will härter gegen Schleuser vorgehen. Die Seenotrettung ist wohl nicht in Gefahr, aber Hilfsorganisationen fordern Klarheit.
https://taz.de/Strafen-fuer-private-Seenotretter/!5972009/
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Montag halte ich übrigens einen Vortrag über Neurodivergenz und Spiele vor Lehrpersonen. Hoffe dann, dass sie lernen dass Spiele auch mal nur Spaß machen dürfen, das aber nicht tun, wenn sie immer nur zweckgebunden angeboten werden.
over 2 years ago
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Ich werde morgen in Bern eine kleinen feinen Vortrag über Cyborg Solidarity und Crip Technologies halten und freu mich schon voll.
over 2 years ago
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FDG 2024 submission deadline has been extended to November 30. Abstracts due November 20. We'll update the website soon to reflect this change
fdg2024.org/for-authors
(For all the academic games people here)
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Information for Authors -- FDG 2024 in Worcester, MA
http://fdg2024.org/for-authors
over 2 years ago
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I took the evening off and then I did laundry and I think I'm heading to my 40ies cause that was fulfilling.
over 2 years ago
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Liebesg’schichten laufen und es ist die Episode mit den Paaren und ich bin nach fünf Minuten schon am Heulen. 😭
over 2 years ago
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Every time I'm in the US, I learn more about how insidious racism is. And how it operates with slightly different, sometimes nastier modes in Europe.
over 2 years ago
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Der 8jährige freut sich jetzt schon auf sein Klimaticket wenn er dann mal 18 ist. Frage ist ob ich dann auch endlich mal eins haben kann (ohne mich misgendern lassen zu müssen).
over 2 years ago
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Katta Spiel (they/them)
Travis View
over 2 years ago
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
www.wired.com/story/x-isra...
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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/
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