| Winter Quarter 2008 Course
Announcement:
with Professor Drew Nelson |
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| Tuesday, January 29th
Abstract:This talk will highlight success stories of context aware designs that have been shown to make an impact on people with disabilities. Progress can be had by carefully designing tools for the contextual problems of a particular group such people with Alzheimer's Disease (The Living Center). This system uses Artificial Intelligence to generate art and present alternative ideas to consider; it takes advantage of the critical sophistication of older people while Alzheimer's people’s challenges in productive acts. The context of the problem can sometimes be best understood by using disabilities concerns to better understand the needs of everyone in Universal Design. At least 6.5 percent of registered voters have short term memory problems; voter action feedback systematic process and redundancy can replace their disenfranchisement with access. These same techniques can significantly reduce errors for the 14 percent of voters have reading disabilities, and actually they can reduce errors for able-bodied people as well. Examples of Universal Design, are always preferable to disability specific solutions, they allow us to disseminate improvements to the disabled easier to help everyone. The process of design is one of considering many alternatives and constraints. The design examples used in this talk will also be a foil to discuss the industrial design methodology for integrating aesthetic design functional engineering and objective evaluation to improve product design. Biosketch: Dr. Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, the Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab, co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and also of the Counter Intelligence/ Design Intelligence special interest group on product design of the future. His work strives to demonstrate that people’s intentions can be recognized and respected by the things we design. His work is recognized for creating demonstrations of a world in which people’s demonstration of desires causes computers to help them across natural and complex domains, such as kitchens, cars, email and voting. This work uses sensors and artificial intelligence in adaptive models of users’ systems and tasks to create keyboardless computers. Ted’s work takes the form of prototype concept products supported by cognitive science research. He particularly works to show how this approach helps product design to bridge communication gaps for technology and people. Ted’s work is also applied to developing and testing user experience technology and security architectures for recording voter intentions securely and accurately. Prior to joining MIT faculty in November 1999, Ted was an IBM fellow and directed the User Systems Ergonomics Research lab. He has served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, taught at Hampshire, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Brown Universities and worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. Ted's research has contributed to products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. He is known for the design of the TrackPoint in-keyboard pointing device found in many notebook computers, as well as many other innovations at IBM. Ted’s work has resulted in numerous awards, patents, and papers and is often featured by the press. Ted was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50 in 2004 and the American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology in 2006.
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