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Morphic: Advancing Social Equity Through Digital Inclusion
A growing pool of users at libraries, colleges, and job centers across the US and in Canada have the opportunity to take advantage of M …
Daniel Greene: Rethinking How Schools, Libraries, and Community Orgs Tackle Poverty
Can a community barbeque be more beneficial to citizens than learning computing skills? Insights from INFO Assistant Professor Daniel G …
Recognizing Disability Awareness During the Month of October
The College of Information Studies are champions of accessibility and democratization of information
UMD INFO College Introduces Technology and Information Design Major
The new major focuses on building and designing prototypes for new technologies such as apps and computers.
Screenshot of an observation session on Zoom from the research study, with Dr. Emma Dixon, Ms. Diana Blackwelder, and a study participant (anonymized with an icon) viewing an NIH webpage reporting on risk factors for heart disease linked to dementia.
How People with Dementia Access Health Information
Dr. Amanda Lazar and her team examine the barriers faced by people with dementia to accessing relevant, accurate health information.
The Maryland State House in Annapolis
New Law Ensures Equivalent Access to Digital Tools for All of Maryland’s K-12 Students
Trace Center Director and iSchool professor Jonathan Lazar contributed to and testified in support of the bill to bring an accessibilit …
AJ Rudd (left) and Aishwarya Tare (right)
Putting the ‘AR’ into Art
Two immersive media projects developed by iSchool students featured in Arts for All showcase.
Dual video conferencing in the proposed remote study design. While interacting with a testbed on a smartphone, a blind participant wearing smart glasses communicates with the experimenter through dual video conferencing. Two video streams are being sent to the experimenter: one from the participant’s smart glasses (a pair of Vuzix blade with the camera located on the top right corner) and the other from a laptop camera facing the participant on the same Zoom call.
Covid-19 Pandemic Moves Research on Assistive Technologies From the Lab to People’s Homes
Dr. Hernisa Kacorri’s research on object recognizers with blind participants required a pivot to remote usability testing, leading he …
