Digital Enterprise Seminar Series - Dr. Deborah Fels

Research and knowledge transfer at the IMDC

In operation at Ryerson since 1995, students, staff, elders, artists, industry and community partners at the Inclusive Media and Design Centre (IMDC), carry out research on inclusive digital media, technologies and processes for people with disabilities and older adults. Using a foundation of inclusive design, the social model of disabilities, and mixed data collection and analysis methodologies, we pursue a research agenda that involves developing technologies such as robotics, neural networks, accessible interaction/interface designs, and sensory substitution, and translating those technologies into commercialisable entities, policies, standards and practices. In this presentation, I will briefly outline three of the current research projects, and describe one of the technology transfer activities that we have recently undertaken. Read more about Dr. Deborah Fels (opens in new window) .