Origins
The Unmapped is a research and essay series exploring accessibility gaps in AI and the technology built around it. It exists because brilliant friends, through their lived experience, questions, and refusal to accept these gaps as permanent, charted them for me in the first place. I mostly just explore and write them down.
The goal is to help turn overlooked gaps into better design.
We strive to meet WCAG AAA accessibility standards across this site. If anything falls short, or is simply bugging you, please let us know.
Mandelbrot Fractals
The fractal below is the Mandelbrot set, named for mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot. He showed that self-repeating patterns appear throughout nature and helped develop the mathematics used to describe them. The Mandelbrot set is the best-known example: infinitely detailed at every scale, yet generated by repeatedly applying the simple equation zn+1 = zn2 + c. Reflecting the Unmapped: it reveals structures that are easy to overlook.
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About the author
Kristi Lyn Eaton is a writer, technologist, and experience designer with continued computer science studies at Columbia University. Her work brings together emerging technology, accessibility, and advocacy, drawing on a background in nonprofit leadership, experiential design, and robotics research at Columbia's ROAR Lab. The Unmapped is where she connects those threads.