Traffic21 Researchers Receive IBM Faculty Award

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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