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Cripping assistive tech design How the current disability framework limits our ability to create emancipatory technology

Recent advances in assistive technologies have blurred the lines between compensating for impairments — for disabled users — and augmenting capabilities — such as with cobotic systems. This article examines how assistive technologies generally seek …

Phrase-Verified Voting: Verifiable Low-Tech Remote Boardroom Voting

We present Phrase-Verified Voting, a voter-verifiable remote voting system easily assembled from commercial off-the-shelf software for small private elections. The system is transparent and enables each voter to verify that the tally includes their …

From Axiomatic Systems to the Dogmatic Gene and Beyond

The positivistic views that dominated the early debate on the foundations of mathematics, at the beginning of the 20th century, survived the “negative results” that have shown the limits of the axiomatic approach since the 1930s. Rigour, abstraction …

Observer pour inventer : la ville d’après

Presque 40 ans après, imaginons ce que serait le carrefour Mabillon sous la plume de Perec : “19 mai 2020. 3, 4, non 5 SUV défilent, les conducteurs aux visages masqués, au passage 3 piétons attendent le feu, chacun à distance. A chaque arrêt, la …

Crip spatialities and temporalities II: a systematic typology of temporal taxes

Living with a disability involves handling many costs that the general population is not aware of, which have recently been denounced in the online #CripTax campaign. Those costs can be split into many categories, the principal ones being financial …

Crip spatialities and temporalities I : discreet crips in a discrete world

This article explores the relationships that disabled people have with the space surrounding them. Extending Jacques Lévy’s work on various non-Euclidean spatialities, we study the discontinuous and discrete nature of space as inhabited by disabled …

Cue-Pin-Select, a Secure Mental Password Manager

People struggle to invent safe passwords for many of their typical online activities, leading to a variety of security problems when they use overly simple passwords or reuse them multiple times with minor modifications. Having different passwords for …

La thanatopolitique du Covid-19

À l'occasion des centaines de milliers de décès soudains du Covid-19, la réalité tangible de la mort s'impose à nouveau à toute la société, après des siècles de mise à distance, jusque dans nos quotidiens confinés1. Alors que nous vivons de mémoire …

Le COVID-19 au prisme des minorités vulnérables

La pandémie du CoViD-19, vue comme expérience collective, a eu un effet de conver- gence des vécus minoritaires avec ceux de la « norme sociale ». L’exemple le plus évident est le confinement, qui a soudainement placé les personnes valides dans la même …

Making more extensive and efficient typo-tolerant password checkers

As passwords remain the main online authentication method, focus has shifted from naive entropy to how usability improvements can increase security. Chatterjee et al. recently introduced the first two typo-tolerant password checkers, their second …