Thirteen years ago, a severe stroke left my mom paralyzed on her right side and with aphasia, a challenging disability that significantly limited her ability to express herself with written and spoken language. In the years that followed, the social media revolution unfolded with the advent of dozens of new ways of connecting and communicating with each other. With keyboards… Read more →
When I heard about the Google Glass Explorer contest, I thought about project ideas that could help people by using the unique features of this new augmented-reality technology. I remembered a project that some fellow students did during a robotics class that I took in graduate school. It used eye-tracking technology to remotely control the motors on a vehicle. After… Read more →
In just under a month’s time, hundreds of students and engineers from around the world will descend on the small campus of Trinity College in Connecticut. For many, it will be a culmination of months of work developing a small autonomous robot. In a series of five-minute trials, they will place their robot in an scaled kitchen arena and look… Read more →
UCP’s Life Labs has recently won a CVS Community Grant that will help to build a prototype mobile accessible gaming station in partnership with the AbleGamers Foundation. Since the launch of the AbleGamers Accessibility Arcade in October 2012, Life Labs sought out ways to partner with the AbleGamers Foundation to bring accessible gaming to UCP affiliates and others. The result… Read more →
The UCP Life Labs team was on hand for the unveiling of the AbleGamers ‘Accessibility Arcade’, the first permanent and public arcade of its kind, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. The concept of an accessible arcade has been showcased in the past, but this is the first permanent installation open to the public. The… Read more →
This is a featured post about “The Fat Finger” iOS app, developed by Data by Design. Data By Design has generously donated five percent of the proceeds of this app to UCP’s Life Labs initiative. Text-to-speech programs have been around since Apple included the MacInTalk speech synthesis engine in its operating system in 1984. The Macintosh famously introduced itself to… Read more →
