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How New Technology Helps Blind People Explore The World

How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who's been blind since the age of fourteen, is working on answering these questions. In a charming demo, she shows off some new technology that's helping blind people explore the world ever more independently ... because, she suggests, when we design for greater accessibility, everyone benefits.

Subjects:

Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Communication Design

Keywords:

Assistive computer technology Self-help devices for people with disabilities

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Video
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Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course, centered around a design project in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently.

Subjects:

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Rehabilitation Sciences, Computing, and Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Self-help devices for people with disabilities

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Courseware

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