Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law

Jonathan Lazar is a Professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, where he is the executive director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) and a faculty member at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). His interests include technology accessibility, user-centered design methods, and assistive technologies. He has previously authored or edited 18 books and published over 200 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and magazines. He has received research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the US National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Google, and Adobe.

Casey Fiesler is an Associate Professor in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is also affiliated with the law school's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. She is a social computing researcher and legal scholar whose research addresses internet law and copyright, online governance, and research ethics. She is also a member of the SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee and the Legal Committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which helps protect the rights of fan creators. She holds a JD from Vanderbilt Law School and a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech.

Brian Wentz is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include how the accessibility and usability aspects of human-computer interaction affects business, education, employment, public policy, and societal inclusion. For more than 14 years, he has been involved in a variety of projects related to web accessibility and usability for people with disabilities, including working as a contractor on the regulatory process for website accessibility under the ADA for the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. He has published over 30 refereed articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Raja Kushalnagar is a Professor and Director of the Information Technology Program at Gallaudet University. He is a board member for the Computing Research Association on Widening Participation (CRA-WP), Association of Computing Machinery – Computer-Human Interaction (ACM-CHI) Steering Committee, Global Alliance of Speech-To-Text Captioning, and New York School for the Deaf. He has published nine articles and 42 juried conference proceedings. He has mentored over 75 deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing undergraduate students on accessible computing, including four NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients. He has a JD and LLM in Information Accessibility and Intellectual Property Law and a PhD in Computer Science.