Universal Design in Electronic Voting: One Machine, One Vote for Everyone

Juan E. Gilbert

Friday, 28 Oct 2011 at 1:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall

Juan E. Gilbert is an IDEaS Professor and Chair of the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University, where he leads the Human-Centered Computing Lab. Gilbert and his research team were recently awarded a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to conduct research on accessible voting technologies. Gilbert is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement Science, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society. He was recently named one of the fifty most important African Americans in Technology. A reception will follow at 2 pm in the Atrium.

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ABSTRACT

Subsequent to the debacle of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, it became abundantly clear that America's archaic voting system was in dire need of a major overhaul. Consequently, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines were purchased by several states. The use of these machines has not been without controversy with respect to security, trust and ease of use. Professors and security research teams have found several vulnerabilities in current voting technologies. In 2002, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was created to provide all citizens equal access to participate in the electoral process, regardless of ability. The Prime III voting system,is a secure, multimodal electronic voting system that takes a universal design approach to address security, trust and ease of use.

ADDITIONAL BIO
Dr. Juan E. Gilbert is an IDEaS Professor and Chair of the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University where he leads the Human-Centered Computing Lab. He is also a Professor in the Automotive Engineering Department at Clemson University.

Dr. Gilbert has research projects in spoken language systems, advanced learning technologies, usability and accessibility, Ethnocomputing (Culturally Relevant Computing) and databases/data mining. He has published more than 100 articles, given more than 160 talks and obtained more than $18 million dollars in research funding. He was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS), an ACM Distinguished Scientist and one of the 50 most important African-Americans in Technology. He was also named a Speech Technology Luminary by Speech Technology Magazine and a national role model by Minority Access Inc.

Dr. Gilbert is also a National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Recently, Dr. Gilbert was named a Master of Innovation by Black Enterprise Magazine, a Modern-Day Technology Leader by the Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference, the Pioneer of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers and he received the Black Data Processing Association (BDPA) Epsilon Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution.

In 2002, Dr. Gilbert was named one of the nation's top African-American Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Dr. Gilbert recently testified before the Congress on the Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008 for his innovative work in electronic voting.

Cosponsored By:

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)