Citizen Science with AutSPACEs
| Main Authors: | Aitkenhead, Georgia, Batchelor, SophIa, Scott, James, Fantoni, Susanna |
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| Format: | info Proceeding Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2022
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6337903 |
Daftar Isi:
- Workshop presented over Zoom on the 7th March 2022 for Mozilla Festival. AutSPACEs is a community-led citizen science project to investigate how sensory processing differences affect the ways autistic people navigate the world. It is supported by The Alan Turing Institute, Open Humans, and Autistica. The platform is designed for autistic individuals and their supporters to share their experiences of the world so that the autistic community, allies, and researchers can understand relationships between sensory processing and autism. This session will discuss ways in which open-source technologies can support the development of a citizen science project while prioritizing the wellbeing and empowerment of its neurodiverse community. 3 members of the AutSPACEs community will run a discussion session centring around diverse inclusion and empowerment. After an overview of AutSPACEs, we will each present on an area of the project. We will then facilitate a parallel series of discussions allowing participants to follow their interests according to the following prompts: What is genuine empowerment? How can existing open-source tools be used to support inclusive co-created projects? What considerations need to be made to ensure that open-source projects maintain the safety, privacy, and wellbeing of neurodiverse communities? How do we create a welcoming, inclusive online space for neurodiverse people? How can we develop infrastructure that open-source platforms and their content are used in ways that the communities on the platforms would wish it to be used? What needs to be done to support informed consent and data ownership within neurodiverse communities interacting in online spaces?