The team of Aaron Steinfeld (Robotics), Anthony Tomasic (ISR), and John
Zimmerman (HCII, Design) from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible
Public Transportation (http://www.rercapt.org) received a 2010 IBM Faculty
Award to further their collaboration with accessibility colleagues at IBM
Research – Tokyo. The RERC-APT and IBM researchers are working to increase
accessibility to web pages using machine learning techniques, especially
with respect to transportation. For example, a blind person may have
difficulty looking up information about a bus route. The team is exploring
how human interaction, machine learning, and website
markup can help remove such barriers.
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