AccessMap Logo with a view of the app on a mobile phone held by a persons left hand.

AccessMap

Get customizable pedestrian navigation experience on the AccessMap Mobile App AccessMap provides customized accessible sidewalk and footpath routing directions based on your personal mobility profile. This can benefit anyone, but is particularly designed to address the informational needs of people…
Open Sidewalks project collects pedestrian infrastructure data

OpenSidewalks

OpenSidewalks seeks to make pedestrian ways, like sidewalks, first class members of an open, routable transportation network from which we can ask a variety of important questions. This means collecting a connected network of path types with detailed attributes like…

iDesign Lab

iDesign Lab engages a community of practice in open source technology design, build, and use. We engage communities of practice in collaborative design aiming to increase access to everyday technologies through community ideation and development of ability-focused novel interfaces, the…

Gesture Learning

Apple products use the same gesture vocabulary for input. Certainly, unifying gestures across devices helps their adoption. However, in the context of a population with hugely variable abilities, achieving broad or general impact requires the adaptation or customization of input…
Tactile MapTile employs a unique tactile based representation of various features in a map to enhance the spatial understanding for people with broad visual capacities. Each feature is represented by a differet texture and pattern tactile design. Users can generate and customize a 3D map model based on their choice of location, and which features to include.

Tactile MapTile

Tactile MapTile employs a unique tactile based representation of various features in a map to enhance the spatial understanding for people with broad visual capacities. Each feature is re//presented by a different texture and pattern tactile design. Users can generate…
Digital drawing displaying a dark figure of a man who uses a wheelchair and wearing an XR headset. The background has mountains in a sunset of surreal lavender and orange coloring.

FleXR

FleXR aims to allow anyone with their own custom input systems to access Extended Reality(XR) applications without requiring physical movement of head-mounted displays or hand controllers that are standard today. FleXR’s prototype demonstrates the feasibility of standardizing input systems for…