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Michael Roberts in UMBC Segment on 60 Minutes

We were excited to see the great UMBC coverage on 60 minutes, and very excited pad member Michael Roberts featured in this video in the segments featuring the Meyerhoff Scholar program.     Read more – ‘Michael Roberts in UMBC Segment on 60 Minutes’.

Michele Burton Presents “Fashion for the Blind” project at ASSETS 2011 SRC

Michele Burton presented her research on “Fashion for the Blind” at the Student Research Competition at ASSETS 2011 in Dundee Scotland this October.  She began working on this project in Amy’s Assistive Technology class in Spring 2011 under the supervision of Callie and Amy, and is still interested in this area. A full version of [...] Read more – ‘Michele Burton Presents “Fashion for the Blind” project at ASSETS 2011 SRC’.

DIY-AT paper to appear at ASSETS 2011!

In October, Amy Hurst and HCC Masters student Jasmine Tobias will present the paper “Empowering Individuals with Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology” at the at the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011).  Jasmine conducted the research for this paper while taking Amy’s Special Topics on Assistive Technology (IS 698). The abstract for [...] Read more – ‘DIY-AT paper to appear at ASSETS 2011!’.

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