Rua M. Williams

Publications

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Journal Articles

Williams, R. M., Alikhademi, K., Munyaka, I. N. S., Gilbert, J. E. (2022). MetaCogs: Mitigating Executive Dysfunction via Agent-Based Modeling for Metacognitive Strategy Development. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, Special Issue on Adaptive Inclusive AR/VR Systems, 15 (3).

Williams, R.M., Alikhademi, K., Gilbert, J. E. (2022). Design of a toolkit for real-time executive function assessment in custom-made virtual experiences and interventions. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 158, 102434.

Williams, R. M. (2021). Six Ways of Looking at Fractal Mechanics. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 7(2).

Williams, R. M. (2021). “I, Misfit: Empty Fortresses, social robots, and peculiar relations in autism research,” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Online First.

Williams, R. M., Smarr, S., Prioleau, D., & Gilbert, J. E. (2021). Oh No, Not Another Trolley! On the Need for a Co-Liberative Consciousness in CS Pedagogy. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, (early access).

Williams, R. M. (2020). “Falsified incompetence and other lies the positivists told me,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 214-244.

Williams, R. M., Gilbert, J. E., (2020). “Perseverations of the academy: a survey of wearable computing applied to autism intervention,” International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Special Issue on Augmented Humanity.

Keyes, O., Peil, B., Williams, R. M., & Spiel, K. (2020). Reimagining (women’s) health: HCI, gender and essentialised embodiment. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(4). 

Williams, R. M., (2019). “Metaeugenics and Metaresistance: from manufacturing the ‘includable body’ to walking away from the broom closet,” Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights / Revue canadienne des droits des enfants, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 60-77.

Williams A., (2018). “Autonomously Autistic: exposing the locus of autistic pathology,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 60–82.

Conference Papers

Spiel, K., Hornecker, E., Williams, R. M., Good, J. (2022). ADHD and Technology Research — Investigated by Neurodivergent Readers. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022, pp. 1-21.

Sum, C. M., Alharbi, R., Spektor, F., Bennett, C. L., Harrington, C. N., Spiel, K., Williams, R. M. (2022). Dreaming Disability Justice in HCI. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – Extended Abstracts, 2022, pp. 1-5.

Prioleau, D., Richardson, B., Drobina, E., Williams, R., Martin, J., & Gilbert, J. E. (2021). How Students in Computing-Related Majors Distinguish Social Implications of Technology. Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 7, 1013–1019.

Gomes, K. M., Nguyen, T., Stonewall, J., Davis, K., Coppola, S., Hallett, K., & Williams, R. M. (2020). Inclusion and Accessibility in The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 64(1), 559–562. 

A. Ymous, O. Keyes, R. M. Williams, J. Good, E. Hornecker, and C. L. Bennett, “‘I am just terrified of my future’-Epistemic Violence in Disability Related Technology Research,” in Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020, pp. 1–16.

K. Spiel et al., “Nothing About Us Without Us: Investigating the Role of Critical Disability Studies in HCI,” in Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020, pp. 1–8.

Williams, R. M., & Boyd, L. E. (2019). Prefigurative Politics and Passionate Witnessing. The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility – ASSETS ’19, 262–266.

(Sue Bogner Healthcare Technical Group Best Student Paper Award) Williams, R.M., Alikhademi, K., Drobina, E., Gilbert, J.E., & Sutor, T. (2019). Augmented Reality for Rehabilitative Therapy: Patient experiences and Practitioner perspectives. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 2019 Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 748-752, October 28 – November 1, 2019.

Williams, R. M., & Gilbert, J. E. (2019). Cyborg Perspectives on Computing Research Reform. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI EA ’19, 1–11.

Williams A., Posadas B., Prioleau D., Laurenceau I., Gilbert J.E. (2019) User Perceptions of Haptic Fidgets on Mobile Devices for Attention and Task Performance. In: Di Bucchianico G. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 776. Springer, Cham.

Williams A., Sherman I., Smarr S., Posadas B., Gilbert J.E. (2019) Human Trust Factors in Image Analysis. In: Boring R. (eds) Advances in Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 778. Springer, Cham.

Sherman I.N., Williams A., Alikhademi K., Smarr S., Roberts A., Gilbert J.E. (2019) What’s Your Password? Exploring Password Choice Conformity in Group Decision Making. In: Ahram T., Nicholson D. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 782. Springer, Cham.

Book Chapters

Gray, C. M., Williams, R. M., Parsons, P., Toombs, A. L., Westbrook, A. (In Press). Trajectories of Student Engagement with Social Justice-Informed Design Work. Accepted in Hokanson, B., Exeter, M., Schmidt, M., & Tawfik, A. (Eds.) Toward Inclusive Learning Design: Social Justice, Equity, and Community. Springer.

Svyantek, M. & Williams, R. M. (2022). “From Telecommute to Telecommunity: How Disabled Onto-Epistemologies Inform Post-Pandemic Professional Practices” in Crisis and Chaos and Organizations: The Coronavirus and Lessons for Organizational Theory. ed. Svyantek, D. Information Age Publishing. Charlotte, NC. 2022.

Williams R. M., (2019). “9 ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Transforming Participatory Research and Ethics in Human Systems Engineering” in Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Human Systems Engineering. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. CRC Press.

Invited Articles

Gibson, A., Williams, R. M. (2022). Who’s in Charge? Information Technology and Disability Justice in the United States. Just Tech Platform. 1 (1).

Williams, R. M., Ringland, K., Gibson, A., Mandala, M., Maibaum, A., Guerreiro, T. (2021). Articulations toward a crip HCI. interactions 28, 3 (May – June 2021), 28–37.

Reviews

Williams R. M., (2020). Review of “Autistic Disturbances,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 550-553.

Williams R. M., (2019). Invited Review of “UNSPOKEN” (2017), Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 8 no. 5, pp. 161-162.

Williams R. M., (2019). Invited Review of “Deej” (2017), Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 8 no. 3, pp. 165-168.

Williams A., (2018). Review of “Academic ableism: disability and higher education,” Disabil. Soc., pp. 1–2.

Williams A., (2018). Review of “Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness,” Disabil. Soc., pp. 1–2.