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<h1 style="color:white;">Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</h1>
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<h2> Hey, it's Bre. </h2>
<p> I've just completed a PhD in Computational Media (Human Computer Interaction) at the University of California Santa Cruz. My dissertation research explores justice and equity based engineering and design methods for engaging with disabled communities. I deeply enjoy getting to work with users to make effective technologies.</p>
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<p> In my research and career so far I've had the opportunity to dive into accessibility, robotics, machine learning, and participatory design.</p>
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<small class="date">2018-Present</small>
<h3 class="h5 date-title">Pursuing a Ph.D in Computational Media, Human Computer Interaction</h3>
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<h3>Winter 2020 - Winter 2023</h3>
<p> <b> Lead Researchers:</b> Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Jared Duval <br>
<b> Advisors:</b> Sri Kurniawan, Katheryn M. Ringland <br>
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<p> Empathy-building is the first stage in human-centered design. For work related to disabled populations, this stage usually entails imagining the experience of living with a disability (i.e., empathy maps and disability simulations). Yet, these have been shown to cultivate negative perspectives and pity rather than empathy. These suboptimal (even counterproductive) empathy-building methods remain standard practice in our feld and teaching practices and can inadvertently reinforce negative stereotypes and biases toward disabled communities. </p>
<p> We have developed a new method: Disability-Related Empathy from Existing Media (DREEM). This method focuses on enculturation rather than traditional ideas of empathy. DREEM leverages media created by disabled individuals to facilitate a deeper, culturally informed understanding. Our findings show that DREEM can be applied in both design classrooms and research contexts to foster a more nuanced understanding of disability for newcomers to the space. </p>
<p> For an example close reading (done as a group example in an undergraduate research course), see this <a href= "group_CR.html" <p>miro board</a>. For more info, you can check out our <a href= "./papers/DREEM.pdf" <p>paper, in review .</a>
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<h3>Spring 2020 - Fall 2021</h3>
<p> <b> Lead Researcher:</b> Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony <br>
<b> Undergraduate Developmers:</b> Jessy Rakesh Armstrong, Rishita Wiaragade, Daniel Browne <br>
<b> Advisors:</b> Sri Kurniawan, Tim Galarneau, Heather Bullock, Kednel Jean <br>
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<p>Due to COVID-19 restructuring, many students have moved away and will
not be able to access many of the programs from UCSC. Basic needs are the fundamental necessities needed in order to live and thrive. This project details efforts to make basic needs programs from any UC easily available to any UC student. While campuses have already agreed to provide these services across campuses, there is not a centralized access point. A centralized web application would allow students to see available resources all in one place and campuses to post or disclose which services are available to outside students.
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You can also find a short research presentation on this project <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWkh6tAIrg">here.</a></p>
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<h2>Procedurally Generated Piano Roll</h2>
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<h3>Winter 2018</h3>
<p> This Project uses Wave Function Collapse to generate piano roll. Wave function collapse is an algorithm that produces tile based imaged, commonly used for game map generation. Piano roll is a type of music scoring which you may recognize from any experience with digital audio workstations. A user can generate their own roll, then choose a key to generate a midi file assosciated with the score. The example audio, which can be found in the github repo, is from a procedurally generated image and played in C Major. </p>
<p> For more info, or to download the code, you can check out <a href= "https://github.com/bbaltaxe/wfc-piano-roll" <p>the github repo.</a>
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<h2>Mechatronics</h2>
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<h3>Spring 2017</h3>
<p> <b>Development Team:</b> Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Vishnu Surya, Jamie Dieckman<br> </p>
<p> Mechatronics is a UCSC course in which team of 3 are given just a few weeks to build a robot from the ground up and compete. Teams build their autonomous bots from scratch including sensors, structure and code. Our team split the development of electrical, mechanical, and software components equally so that we could each pick up where anyone left off or had trouble. This strategy worked as we won the final competition of about 20 other bots! </p>
<p> For more info, you can check out our <a href= "./papers/mechatronics.pdf" <p>final report </a> , or <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNiMwP4Ju68" <p> watch a video</a> of our bot winning the final round of the competition. </p></p>
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<p> SpokeIt is a speech therapy game for children with cleft. SpokeIt was originally designed by <a href = "https://jareduval.com/" <p>Jared Duval </a> and <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakrubin/" <p> Zak Rubin. </p> </a>
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<h2>Selected Publications</h2>
<h5> 2024 </h5>
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<p><u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>. <br><b>Justice and Equity-Based Approaches for Technology Design with Disabled Communities</b>. <br>Dissertation, University of California Santa Cruz.</p>
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<p><u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Jared Duval, Kathryn E Ringland. <br><b>DREEM: Moving from Empathy to Enculturation in Disability Related Human-Centered Design</b>. <br>Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.</p>
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<p>Tesssa Eagle, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Kathryn E Ringland. <br><b>“It was something I naturally found worked and heard about later”: An Investigation of Body Doubling with Neurodivergent Participants</b>. <br>ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.</p>
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<p>Cella M Sum, Franchesca Spektor, Rahaf Alharbi, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Erika Devine, Hazel Anneke Dixon, Jared Duval, Tessa Eagle, Frank Elavsky, Kim Fernandes, Leandro S Guedes, Serena Hillman, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Lynn Kirabo, Tamanna Motahar, Kathryn E Ringland, Anastasia Schaadhardt, Laura Scheepmaker, Alicia Williamson. <br><b>Challenging Ableism: A Critical Turn Toward Disability Justice in HCI</b>. <br>XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students. </p>
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<p><u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Ishita Chordia, Ashley Boone, Alyssa Sheehan, Lynn Dombrowski, Christopher Le Dantec, Kathryn Ringland, and Angela D. R. Smith. <br><b>Social Justice in HCI: A Systematic Literature Review</b>. <br>Proceedings of the CHI 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.</p>
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<h5>2023 </h5>
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<p> Tessa Eagle, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, and Kathryn Ringland. <br><b>Proposing body doubling as a continuum of space/time and mutuality: An investigation with neurodivergent participants</b>. <br>Proceedings of the ASSETS 23 Conference on Computers and Accessibility. </p>
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<p> Tessa Eagle, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Lee Taber, and Kathryn Ringland. <br><b>A Playful Twist on the Peer Review Process and Methodological Gaslighting</b>. <br>Proceedings of the CHI 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.</p>
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<h4>2020 </h4>
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<p> Lee Taber, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, and Kevin Weatherwax. <br><b>What makes a livestream companion?</b>. <br>ACM interactions 26 </p>
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<h4>2019 </h4>
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<p><u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Kevin Weatherwax, Sri Kurniawan, Lee Taber, Steve Whittaker.
<br><b>A Livestream Companion</b>. <br>In Live Streaming Workshop at the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.</p>
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<p> Hansen Brian, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Sri Kurniawan, and Angus Forbes. <br><b>Exploring sonic parameter mapping for network data structures</b>. <br>In International Conference on Auditory Display 2019.</p>
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<h4>2018 </h4>
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<p> <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Tom Hope, Kentaro Watanabe, Mircea Teodorescu, Sri Kurniawan, and Takuichi Nishimura. <br><b>Exploring the creation of useful interfaces for music therapists</b>. <br>In Audio Mostly 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018 </p>
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<p> <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>
<br><b>Technology for Music Therapy</b>
. <br>Undergraduate Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, 2018</p>
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<h4>2017 </h4>
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<p> Steven Lessard, Pattawong Pansodtee, Ash Robbins, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, James M Trombadore, Mircea Teodorescu, Adrian Agogino, and Sri Kurniawan. <br><b>Crux: A compliant robotic upper-extremity exosuit for lightweight, portable, multi-joint muscular augmentation</b>. <br>In Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2017 International Conference on, pages 1633–1638. IEEE, 2017 </p>
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<h4>2016 </h4>
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<p> <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Ash S Robbins, Erik A Jung, Steven Lessard, Mircea Teodorescu, Vytas SunSpiral, and Adrian Agogino. <br><b>Simulating the human shoulder through active tensegrity structures</b>. <br>In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information </p>
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<p> Steven Lessard, Dennis Castro, William Asper, Shaurya Deep Chopra, <u>Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony</u>, Mircea Teodorescu, Vytas SunSpiral, and Adrian Agogino. <br><b>A bio-inspired tensegrity manipulator with multi-dof, structurally compliant joints</b>. <br>2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2016. </p>
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<p>I started playing trombone as a kid, and never stopped.</p>
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<p> The Banana Slug Brass has been performing at the University of California Santa Cruz and beyond since 2014.
<p>We play everything from renaissance to Mariah Carey. We enjoy playing across the Bay Area, and are available for engagements. Contact me for more info at [email protected]</p>
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<h2>Upcoming Performances</h2>
<p>Performances have been cancelled for the forseeable future due to COVID-19.</p>
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<p>2 March 2020, 5pm -
Chamber Music Concert, ft. Banana Slug Brass.
We'll be playing a suite from West Side Story, Mariaaaaa</p>
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<a href="https://music.ucsc.edu/events/ucsc-wind-ensemble-1"> UCSC Wind Ensemble ft. Banana Slug Brass </a>
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<p>9 February 2020 -
<a href="https://music.ucsc.edu/events/graduate-student-recital-genevieve-kromm-trumpet"> Genevieve Kromm, Graduate Recital ft. Banana Slug Brass </a>
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