Proceedings of the Wireless RERC 2021 State of Technology Forum
The Wireless RERC convened the Virtual State of Technology (SoT) Forum 2020One on March 23-24, 2021. The 2021 virtual SoT was a focused, robust event, with a lively, informed, and diverse group of attendees representing the research community, people with disabilities, industry, technologists, advocates, policymakers, and disability service providers who explored the state of, and emerging trends in, inclusive wireless technologies and applications....Read more
New Application Enables People who are Non-Verbal to Access Voice-Activated Smart Home Devices
August 11, 2021 – The IDEAL Group is pleased to announce the release of the Smart Home Helper (SHH). SHH is a free Android app (available on the Google Play Store) that enables individuals who are nonverbal and individuals with speech disorders such as stuttering, apraxia, and dysarthria to issue verbal commands to voice-activated smart home devices, using Android’s Text-to-Speech engine. SHH enables its users to issue smart home commands, in any one of 63...Read more
Helpful Alert Originator-Focused & Consumer-Focused Resources for Emergency Communications
Helpful Alert Originator-Focused Websites
12 Considerations for Accessible Emergency Communications: http://bit.ly/12considerationsfor
IPAWS Alerting Authority Online Training: http://bit.ly/IPAWStraining
Common Misconceptions Regarding People who are Deaf and Rely on ASL: http://bit.ly/CommonMis
Effective Communications...Read more
Call for Papers (UPDATED May 1, 2020) - Special Issue of Assistive Technology
Overview:
In consideration of the recent World Health Organization declaration of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak to be a pandemic, we have reluctantly decided to postpone the 2020 State of Technology Forum. The important work of the Wireless RERC continues, and as such, we see the postponement as an opportunity to produce a more robust Assistive Technology Journal Special Issue. The Issue reflects the Rehabilitation Engineering Research...Read more
Tactile Graphics Helper Available Now in the Apple App Store!
TACTILE GRAPHICS HELPER for iOS is available now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tactile-graphics-helper/id1469997677
October 3, 2019 - The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Inclusive Technologies’ (Wireless RERC) App Factory project team is pleased to announce the release of the Tactile Graphics Helper (TGH) on the App Store. TGH was developed by researchers at...Read more
Three-Part Video Tutorial Series on the Amazon Echo Launched on the Wireless RERC’s YouTube Channel!
New owners of Amazon’s series of Echo devices with vision disabilities now have a step-by-step video guide they can reference to set up their Echos without sighted assistance. This new three-part series of videos was produced by the Wireless RERC’s consumer outreach team. The videos provide a thorough tutorial on the set-up and overall operation of the Amazon Echo.
- Part 1 – Guides the user through unboxing the Echo powering it ...Read more
New Audio Guide Released! Wireless RERC and GaRRS Team Up to Release a Step-By-Step Set-Up Audio Guide for the Amazon Echo Dot.
The Wireless RERC is excited to announce that it has teamed up with the Georgia Radio Reading Service (GaRRS) to produce an all-audio set-up guide for users of the Amazon Echo Dot, which GaRRS provides to their listeners. GaRRS is Georgia’s premier provider of information for individuals who have a vision or print disability. Every month, they broadcast and stream hundreds of programs, including local and national newspapers, books, magazines...Read more
Text-Only Script for Optimizing WEA Alert Settings YouTube Video
AppFactory releases beta version of EyeRemember on Android Wear smartwatch
This app is a follow-on version to the EyeRemember for Google Glass project. It is an electronic external memory aid for people with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) to remember people in their community, using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. The app allows the user to associate photos, background information and notes with BLE beacons worn by members of the user's community. When the person wearing a beacon comes in proximity, the smartwatch of the person with mTBI will alert the...Read more
