AIMPOWER

Mountain View, California, 94043 United States

Mission Statement

AImpower.org researches and co-creates empowering technologies for, with, and by marginalized communities to dismantle barriers, create benefits, and seek social justice.

About This Cause

We believe that technology can be a powerful tool that empowers previously oppressed communities and facilitates systemic changes, when the communities are directly involved to drive the development and deployment of technology. AImpower.org works at the intersection of technology, social justice, and activism. Building on our technical and research expertise, industry/academia networks, as well as lived experiences as members of minority and marginalized communities, we empower marginalized communities to drive the change in their technological experiences through community-oriented research, joint development of solutions, technical mentorship, and public advocacy. Our current work focuses on technology and speech diversity. In particular. we have been partnering with the stuttering community to uncover and dismantle the two major technological barriers they are facing: 1) communication challenges exacerbated by the design of videoconferencing tools, 2) access barriers created by speech AI technologies that discriminates disfluent speech. To address these two challenges, we have 1) co-designed a Zoom companion App to enhance the socio-emotional experience of meetings and build a supportive meeting environment for all meeting participants; and 2) investigated disfluency-friendly speech AI models and products.

AIMPOWER
2425 Laura Ln Aimpower
Mountain View, California 94043
United States
Phone 650-681-7207
Unique Identifier 881534897