Tech Demos

Screenshot of the vodeo playing, shows web tool, Clint Zeagler, ASL interpreter, and captions.

Wearable Technology Designer’s Web Tool

The Wearable Technology Designer’s Web Tool is for designers to use at the beginning of the design process. The tool presents a series of questions, as the designer provides answers about their project, the tool compiles a set of design and...Read more

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Tactile Graphics Helper

The Tactile Graphics Helper (TGH) project is a smartphone/tablet app that uses the device’s camera to track a student's fingers as he/she explores a tactile graphic and allows the student to gain clarifying audio information about the...Read more

Screenshot of video playing, shows photo of mobile phone receiving a tornado warning, the WEA vibrating cadence, ASL interpreter, and captions.

Inclusive Emergency Lifelines

The Emergency Inclusive Lifelines Project developed wireless communication protocols and interfaces for adopted and emerging wireless technologies used in all stages of emergencies (before, during, and after emergencies).  Specific projects...Read more

Screenshot of demo video showing the tangible augmented reality design tool and an ASL interpreter.

Augmented Reality as a Design Tool

The project is exploring the use of Augmented Reality and Tangible Augmented Reality for assessing the usability of products and services. The goal is to understand barriers and factors that impact their accuracy so that designers can confidently...Read more

Pepper, a humanoid robot with a screen on her chest, interacts with her friend.

Pepper Robot

Wireless RERC researcher, John Bricout, PhD, who is the director of the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMN), and Dr. Julienne A. Greer and collaborators at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Emotional...Read more

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