Projects – The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology

Open Sidewalks project collects pedestrian infrastructure data

OpenSidewalks

AccessMap

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

Universal Play Kiosk

Universal Collaborative Play

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

The smart and connected wheelchair. The image3D model of a power wheelchair with iconography of a wireless wave surrounding it. On the right arm support is an icon of GPS location, on the left arm support are icons of wireless emissions from an on-board tablet and icon of messaging sending out from the chair.

Autonomous Wheelchair Kit

Community Design for Seattle Design Festival, 2017

iDesign Lab

Gesture Learning

The TACcess DIY Switch Accessibility Kit

Next Gen Augmentative Communication