Richard McGovern

MS Student, iSchool

University of Washington

I am geospatial data analyst and GIS junkie with a passion for accessibility and social justice. Injustice can be hard to see unless it is part of your daily, lived reality, or until you take bird's-eye view and observe the structural inequity across space. Embedded within data are stories waiting to be told. I help find these stories by making data spatially interoperable, deriving synergies, building analytical pipelines, and visualizing results.

Projects

Accessibility-Infused Maps

2016 – Present

Project Sidewalk

2012 – Present

AccessVis

2018 – Present

Papers

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of CHI 2022 | Acceptance Rate: 24.7% (637 / 2579)

keywords: design probes, urban accessibility, geo-visualization, sidewalk accessibility, urban visualization, sensemaking, sidewalk visualization

PDF | doi | Citation | Talk | Project Sidewalk • AccessVis • Accessibility-Infused Maps • Multi-Stakeholder Interviews to Examine Urban Accessibility

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Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

YouTube | Paper

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