Current Research Projects
Visual Impairment and Transportation Technologies
This project aims to investigate the ways that being blind or visually impaired affects the needed capabilities of transportation technologies. Disability representation in emerging technologies is an important interest of this lab. Transportation barriers inhibit independence and job opportunities and lead to missed doctors appointments and loss of productivity. Technologies such as autonomous vehicles may greatly help visually impaired and blind individuals, and the community has been found to have hopeful attitudes for their development. Our studies seek to include blind and visually impaired opinions in the mode and feature development of in-vehicle system creation.