Frank Elavsky
Assistant Professor of Data Science investigating accessibility and data interaction. Previously: PhD from CMU, data interaction R&D at Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa, + others.
www.frank.computerARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Skeleton wins best paper at IEEE VIS 2026
We've won a best paper award. I'll use this as an excuse to soapbox about best papers for a second.
LEEDERYA
ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Does human-computer interaction research enable anti-social practices? Does AI make this worse?
Thanks to AI's role in work, I've been stewing yet again on what it means to do human studies and accessibility research and why society seems to value this kind of specialization.
MICROSOFTAPPLE
GENERATIVE AI AND FOUNDATION MODELS
How to disable generative AI in python notebook environments (ipynb)
This is a simple, practical guide for fellow educators who are trying to teach introductory topics using python notebooks when environments like google colab end up immediately giving students the opportunity to cheat.
ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY
Announcing: Skeleton 馃┗, the culminating project of my PhD!
My final research project looked at the barriers that sighted practitioners face when authoring non-visual data experiences. We co-designed, built tooling, built a UI prototype, and ran a study.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSONADOBE
GENERATIVE AI AND FOUNDATION MODELS
I鈥檓 tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.
UNITED STATES
