jonathan zong
@jonathanzong.com
information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
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· Sep 4
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
front splits progress!
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
front splits progress!
I'm excited to share a complete draft syllabus for my new special topics class at CU Boulder, INFO 4871 Design for Accessibility.
data-and-design.org/classes/4871/
data-and-design.org/classes/4871/
INFO 4871: Design for Accessibility
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm excited to share a complete draft syllabus for my new special topics class at CU Boulder, INFO 4871 Design for Accessibility.
data-and-design.org/classes/4871/
data-and-design.org/classes/4871/
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Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort?
Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms | TechPolicy.Press
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
www.techpolicy.press
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort?
Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots. We explain:
www.techpolicy.press/beware-of-op...
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
the @data-and-design.org and information visions (@peck.phd) labs celebrated the end of the semester together yesterday! thanks for a great 2025!
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
the @data-and-design.org and information visions (@peck.phd) labs celebrated the end of the semester together yesterday! thanks for a great 2025!
HCI accessibility folks: what are your favorite systems/design papers in accessibility?
I'm looking for examples that:
- meaningfully involve disabled co-designers
- produce artifacts informed by disability studies (either implicitly or explicitly)
- have an impact, whatever that might mean to you
I'm looking for examples that:
- meaningfully involve disabled co-designers
- produce artifacts informed by disability studies (either implicitly or explicitly)
- have an impact, whatever that might mean to you
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
HCI accessibility folks: what are your favorite systems/design papers in accessibility?
I'm looking for examples that:
- meaningfully involve disabled co-designers
- produce artifacts informed by disability studies (either implicitly or explicitly)
- have an impact, whatever that might mean to you
I'm looking for examples that:
- meaningfully involve disabled co-designers
- produce artifacts informed by disability studies (either implicitly or explicitly)
- have an impact, whatever that might mean to you
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Did you know that Slices of Life is generally available for purchase now?? It is and boy will it make a great gift for the holidays! Get your orders in now!
Book: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book & Print Bundle: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book & Print Bundle: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Did you know that Slices of Life is generally available for purchase now?? It is and boy will it make a great gift for the holidays! Get your orders in now!
Book: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book & Print Bundle: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
Book & Print Bundle: www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/slic...
this week, i was so fortunate to have @kayserifserif.place as a guest speaker in my user-centered design class!
in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...
in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...
Making Poetic Tools and Nurturing Soft Tech: Katherine Yang on Art, Code, and Information Design
This week, artist and programmer Katherine Yang visited INFO 4609 User-Centered Design to share about her work and career across information design and creative technology. Katherine is currently a fr...
data-and-design.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
this week, i was so fortunate to have @kayserifserif.place as a guest speaker in my user-centered design class!
in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...
in her talk, katherine shared work from her creative practice as a programmer and poet, and from her professional work with @fathom.info
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/11...
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Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
Hiding participant identities is standard research ethics practice. But is it always the best fit for HCI accessibility work?
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
Abstract
data-and-design.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hiding participant identities is standard research ethics practice. But is it always the best fit for HCI accessibility work?
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
For the VIS access workshop, I argue that crediting disabled participants by their real names (with consent) advances citational justice
data-and-design.org/publications...
hello #ASSETS2025!
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
hello #ASSETS2025!
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
1) check out Catherine's Monday talk about Benthic, a system for perceptually congruent screen reader interfaces for diagrams.
2) i'm looking for phd students interested in accessibility and design to join @data-and-design.org next year! data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers.
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Benthic: Perceptually Congruent Structures for Accessible Charts and Diagrams | MIT Visualization Group
Graphical representations—such as charts and diagrams—have a visual structure that communicates the relationship between visual elements. For instance, we might consider two elements to be connected w...
vis.mit.edu
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers.
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025
vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I will be speaking next week at CU Boulder's Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium on @data-and-design.org's work co-designing accessible data visualization tools with blind and low-vision people.
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium
www.colorado.edu
October 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I will be speaking next week at CU Boulder's Access, Innovation & Disability Symposium on @data-and-design.org's work co-designing accessible data visualization tools with blind and low-vision people.
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
Free and open to the public
www.colorado.edu/artsandscien...
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This short paper by @jonathanzong.com has been brought up in more discussions in my day to day than any other piece. I love it immensely and it's something that anybody who is doing work with people (disabled, marginalized, or not) should at least read and consider.
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...
arxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This short paper by @jonathanzong.com has been brought up in more discussions in my day to day than any other piece. I love it immensely and it's something that anybody who is doing work with people (disabled, marginalized, or not) should at least read and consider.
be my colleague!
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice and Information/Technology
jobs.colorado.edu
September 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
be my colleague!
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
information science at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in environmental justice.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
I'm a speaker this year for @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social, a free 24-hour online livestream event on inclusive design and accessibility.
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
inclusivedesign24.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm a speaker this year for @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social, a free 24-hour online livestream event on inclusive design and accessibility.
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
Check out the program here and catch my talk on September 25 at 4pm US Mountain Time (22:00 UTC)
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
last night i got to attend @loriemerson.net's amazing book launch lecture-performance event at boulder public library. here's my recap. so excited to read my new copy of the book!
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
Another Internet is Possible: Lori Emerson on “Other Networks”
How have people resourcefully used technology to create their own communication networks, and how can learning about this history help us reimagine the future of the internet?
data-and-design.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
last night i got to attend @loriemerson.net's amazing book launch lecture-performance event at boulder public library. here's my recap. so excited to read my new copy of the book!
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
data-and-design.org/blog/2025/09...
rip haru urara. i'll keep trying my best
September 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
rip haru urara. i'll keep trying my best
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A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos
Ekphrasis
Fall 2025
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Haptics stuff: historically, haptics development & coding has gotten kind of black boxed, so people don't understand what's going on underneath the hood. This piece from Razer on haptics implementation in Marvel Rivals attempts to undo that a bit.
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
Immersion Redefined: The Tech Behind Marvel Rivals’ Sensory Revolution - WYVRN
We often hear about immersion in video games—it's one of the few forms of art where this term is used so frequently, and for good reason: video games have a tool that other art forms lack—interaction....
www.wyvrn.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Haptics stuff: historically, haptics development & coding has gotten kind of black boxed, so people don't understand what's going on underneath the hood. This piece from Razer on haptics implementation in Marvel Rivals attempts to undo that a bit.
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
www.wyvrn.com/blog/2025/07...
Reposted by jonathan zong
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility
In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...
arxiv.org
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com:
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.
"Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility"
This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.