Dr. Stephen Gilson is currently professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine.
(See my biography page for more information).
| Universal Web Access: An Intelligent Web Interface | |||
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In this session we present a project focusing on the development, testing and deployment of an intelligent web interface to advance universal access to web information. |
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| Moving Beyond Nomothetic Category: Diversity as Symmetry | |||
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In this paper, we advance a new conceptualization, a progressive theory of diversity that builds on contemporary theory and is informed by a broad examination of interdisciplinary literature and practice. |
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| Geographic Analysis for the Social Sciences: Illustration through Prevention Science Research | |||
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In this paper, we discuss and illustrate an innovative multi-faceted prevention research model, relevant to the full range of social and health problems experienced by global communities. |
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| The Bell-Shaped Curve: Alive, Well and Living in Diversity Rhetoric | |||
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In this presentation, we analyze symbol in diversity politics and illustrate how the bell curve tacitly maintains the diversity-destructive normal/abnormal binary. |
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| Da Vinci’s Ill Fated Design Legacy: Homogenization and Standardization | |||
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In this paper, we examine how da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been apprehended as a contemporary mechanism of social, environmental, cultural, bodily, and expressive control and propose alternative conclusions. |
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| Designer Diversity: Constructing Bodies and Backgrounds through Contemporary Design Theory | |||
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This paper critically explores and indicts design as a prime mover, brander, and political force in creating and reifying diversity categories and group identities. |
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