Research Projects

  • User Experience and Expectations Research (R1) is designed to give consumers with disabilities a mechanism to directly inform research and development efforts.
    • Task 1: User-focused and survey based research collects data across a variety of life domains and disability characteristics.
    • Task 2: Employment and workforce preparation focused research focuses on the use of wireless technologies to facilitate social connectedness of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
    • Task 3: Engaged connected futures research addresses research models and interventions for Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) to increase the capabilities of people with disabilities in varied environment

  • Social and Cultural Design Research (R2) Social and Cultural Design Research examines emerging factors of inclusive design as they impact the range of wireless based technologies and services, including wearable computing devices, robotics, sensors, emergency communications, and the underlying IoT ecosystem.

    • Task 1: Foundational research for Internet of Things design factors
    • Task 2: Sociocultural design for wearables
    • Task 3: Augmented reality for design

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