Publications

Books

Making Computers Accessible book cover

Elizabeth R. Petrick. Making Computers Accessible: Disability Rights and Digital Technology (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

Winner of the 2017 Computer History Museum Prize.

  

Available in hardcover and e-book formats from:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Amazon
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Articles and Chapters

Elizabeth R. Petrick, “The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and Disability,” in Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick, eds, Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

Elizabeth R. Petrick, “A Historiography of Human-Computer Interaction,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Special Issue on “Interface Architects: The Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction,” 42, no. 4 (October-December, 2020): 8-23.

Elizabeth R. Petrick, “Building the Black Box: Cyberneticians and Complex Systems,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, Special Issue on “Unpacking the Black Box,” 45, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): 575–595.

Elizabeth R. Petrick, “Curb Cuts and Computers: Advocating for Design Equality in the 1980s,” Design Issues 35, no. 4 (Autumn 2019): 23-32.

Elizabeth R. Petrick, “Imagining the Personal Computer: Conceptualizations of the Homebrew Computer Club 1975-1977.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 39, no. 4 (October-December 2017): 27-39.

Lisa K. Kaczmarczyk; Elizabeth R. Petrick; Philip J. East; Geoffrey L. Herman. “Identifying Student Misconceptions of Programming,” Proceedings of the Twenty-Second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Milwaukee, WI, March 10-13, 2010).

Winner of the Top Ranked Paper of the “Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time Award” from SIGCSE, 2019

Reprinted: L. C. Kaczmarczyk, E. R. Petrick, J. P. East, and G. L. Herman. “The First of the Top Ten SIGCSE Symposium Research Papers of the Last 50 Years: Identifying Student Misconceptions of Programming,” ACM Inroads 10, no. 2 (June 2019): 65-69.