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@ESRC project investigating how autistic adults use social media for social relationships. @QMUL @EdinburghUni Run by @koteyko_nelya and @DrSimiManni

London
Joined February 2021
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Do you use social media to talk about your interest/s? Please participate in our survey and interviews (last question on the survey form). Please repost to help us reach a diverse group of young people!
Looking for autistic young people to take part in our survey on focused interests and social media qmulbusiness.qualtrics.com/j…
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A survey link to a new study at QM. Please share widely! We particularly welcome participation from non-speaking people as well as individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups as they are under-represented in autism research. qmulbusiness.qualtrics.com/j…
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Our project report is out bit.ly/3sRa8m3 Thank you to all our research participants, autistic advisory board and scientific advisory board members @autistica @QMUL_HSS
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We are working with @Autistica to produce guidance to adapt online platforms to better support autistic users. Come along to this in person event to discover our toolkit of best practice and policy brief! There will be talks, an exhibition, and lunch! eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-…
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All ready for our End of Project Conference tomorrow!
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We are at the @QMUL #FestivalOfCommunities today presenting our research project to the public! Lots of fun activities in the festival in London, Stepney Green Park!
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If you work in the third or public sector, and cannot re-design digital platforms, but would like to know how to adapt your existing website, social media, or online group to better support autistic users, we are also running short focus groups to explore this. Link below 👇
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Our training session with UX designers went really well, so we are offering a new one for all of those who couldn't make it! We will explore methods and best practice to design more inclusive digital platforms for and with autistic users. Link to join below 👇
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@NotAnAngryUXer this is the new link, if it can be of interest :)
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Autistic Adults Online retweeted
Online conference for anyone who is interested in our project results🙂. We will co-present findings with our participants and will have two workshops - discussing linguistic data and methods and the design ones. Pls register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-…
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Today Dr Belen Pena and @almostjohnvines were at @acm_chi presenting our research paper "My Perfect Platform Would Be Telepathy" - Reimagining the Design of Social Media with Autistic Adults. You can access the read the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35445… #CHI2023
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Check out this article on our research and how social media platforms are letting down autistic users. To follow, we will share the paper presented today at @acm_chi 2023 by Dr Belen Pena! qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2023/h… #AutismAwarenessMonth #CHI2023 #Neurodiversity #inclusion
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Last month we run a workshop for HCI MA students at @CityUniLondon led by Dr Belen Pena to present and discuss the participatory design methods developed in this research. Students did a great job! You can read about it here 👇 autisticadultsonline.com/202…
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We are offering a free training workshop for software developers and UX researchers/designers on how to create more inclusive platforms for autistic people. We will present hands-on methods and findings from the Autistic Adults Online project. Please help us spread the word!
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Autistic Adults Online retweeted
It’s Autism Acceptance Week, show your support by amplifying autistic voices so that together we can celebrate our differences and make the world a richer, more inclusive place.  #AutismAcceptanceWeek #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptanceWeek2023
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Our @autistica webinar on social media and how it should improve to better support autistic people is now on Youtube! With @koteyko_nelya @MrJW18 @belenpena @DrSimiManni #AutismAcceptanceWeek youtube.com/watch?v=bzFah9Ho…
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Opportunity alert! @CityUniLondon is offering a funded PhD studentship on "Reinventing the future of financial technologies with autistic adults". Autistic applicants are encouraged to apply! Deadline 14/04/23. city.ac.uk/prospective-stude…
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