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Maryland Today: UMD Tech Tool Aims to Make Workplaces More Inclusive for Autistic People (ft. Ge Gao)
Video Platform Designed by Neurodiverse Team Could Improve Communications for All
As touchscreens proliferate in daily life, from coffee shops to airports, people who are blind or visually impaired are often unable to access important digital information. UMD researchers have developed a new robot that could help bridge the gap
Photo by iStock; Toucha11y photo courtesy of Jiasheng Li.
Maryland Today: An Ally for Access (ft. Huaishu Peng)
Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users
News Release: Research Team Wins $1.5M NSF Grant to Leverage Machine Learning to Assess Mathematics Lesson Plan Quality in the Middle Grades
Dr. Wei Ai of the UMD INFO College is a co-PI on this groundbreaking project
News Release: Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches
Led by the UMD INFO College, MIDA aims to change technology design to include disability communities as equal partners, proactively bui …
IEEE Spectrum: A Wearable Robotic Assistant That’s All Over You (ft. Ge Gao)
Calico is a little robot that can zip around your clothing to help you out.
(Video) 40th Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium
INFO professors and other HCIL experts discuss human-computer interaction technology during 40th annual event
Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding
A new partnership between INFO and ARCH will educate youth in critical data science and help them become environmental stewards.
