Learn about the importance of accessible product design at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice
When you are able to navigate a world that is designed for you, it’s easy to avoid thinking about how the world is designed for you. But it can be different if you are disabled.
At TechCrunch Sessions: Justice on March 3, we will examine the importance of ensuring accessible product design from the beginning. We’ll ask how the social and medical models of disability influence technological evolution. Integrating the expertise of disabled technologists, makers, investors, scientists and software engineers into the DNA of your company from the very beginning is vital to the pursuit of a functioning and equitable society. And could mean you don’t leave money on the table.
Teams To Examine Self-Driving Cars For Individuals With Special Needs
by Ed Blazina, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS | January 26, 2021
One of Google s self-driving vehicles makes its way in Mountain View, Calif. (John Green/Bay Area News Group/TNS)
PITTSBURGH John Tague, chairman of the Pennsylvania Transportation Alliance, uses a wheelchair and understands the daily mobility challenges faced by people with disabilities.
That’s why Tague is excited that a team from Carnegie Mellon University has received a grant to develop a prototype system for autonomous vehicles that will allow anyone to control most vehicle functions from summoning the vehicle to their location to controlling the windows and the temperature of the air conditioning from their cellphones.
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Adam Perer Joins Blue Spark Technologies’ TempTraq Advisory Board
January 19, 2021 GMT
CLEVELAND (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 19, 2021
Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. today announced that Adam Perer has joined its TempTraq advisory board. The advisory board consists of key leaders from the medical, tech and business communities and helps drive strategic initiatives within Blue Spark.
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Perer is assisting Blue Spark to build out new, innovative, features on its TempTraq continuous remote body temperature monitoring platform, with the first focus on building out Blue Spark’s neural network, initially based on its TempTraq continuous body temperature monitoring platform and robust data sets. The goal is to build a platform that can predictively inform healthcare providers on potential changes in disease states, well before they become critical. Blue Spark has seen encouraging resear
Jan 7, 2021 Pittsburgh Research Team Wins 300-Thousand-Dollars For Autonomous Vehicle Innovation
(Pittsburgh, PA) A Pittsburgh-based research team is being awarded 300-thousand dollars for becoming a semifinalist in a national competition. Computer Interaction Institute in Pittsburgh was named yesterday as one of ten winning teams for the U.S. Department of Transportation s Inclusive Design Challenge. The research team won 300-thousand-dollars for their project that makes autonomous vehicles more accessible to people with disabilities. The team will have 18 months to build a prototype for their design, and they could win up to five-million-dollars if their design is selected as the winner of the competition.