As a former tech lead at Meta, Shaomei Wu, Ph.D. ’12, found she had to work extra hard to get her points across in large online meetings. She stutters, which combined with her gender and racial identity, made it challenging to claim and hold the floor. She began doing research with the stuttering community to find out how fellow stutterers felt about dominant communication technologies and the new barriers they introduced.
Redesigning videoconferencing for, and by, people who stutter
