The interview centers on making autonomous vehicles accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. The Blind and Beyond Radio Show is a nationally distributed radio program reaching 12 million people in the United States weekly. Listen here: https://www.blindandbeyondradioshow.org/uploads/7/5/2/6/75264243/b_b_sun_03-14-21__hr2_.mp3
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Read more here: https://insideautonomousvehicles.com/smartphone-app-may-help-seniors-people-with-disabilities-enjoy-robo-taxis/
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Fink and Giudice were selected to join a cohort of the Nation’s top policy researchers for the Day One Project, an initiative of the Federation of American Scientists. Their proposal seeks to translate research related to accessible autonomous vehicles into actionable federal policy. Read more here: https://www.dayoneproject.org/tech-policy-accelerator
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Read and watch more here: https://www.wabi.tv/2021/02/22/umaine-researchers-awarded-300k-to-make-autonomous-vehicles-more-accessible/
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The Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at the VEMI lab has been picking up articles in local news platforms. This is due to being semifinalists for the U.S. DOT’s Inclusive Design Challenge, where VEMI plans to develop “Ava”, the Autonomous Vehicle Assistant. Ava is an innovative ride-hailing and localization smartphone application. Read the article Fox Bangor […]
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VEMI’s annual report is now available for 2021. Click here to access VEMI’s 2021 Annual Report
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Read what Senator King and Senator Collins had to say about VEMI’s DOT prize and project here: https://apnews.com/article/susan-collins-angus-king-bangor-maine-413190d481d0846e24f6986f20b8ced0
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Dr. Howell and her team have recently received a grant from the NSF to work on the scale-up of a microfluidic water purification system in collaboration with researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where they have developed the first prototype. Click here to read more. Dr. Howell and team […]
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Dr. Giudice gave a keynote talk at the AccessComputing conference at the University of Washington. His talk (given virtually on Jan 14) was entitled “Grand challenges in blindness research: The role of multimodal, bio-inspired technology solutions of the future.”
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Dr. Giudice named Accessibility co-chair for the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’21). Nick has been involved with the ASSETS conference for years and he is excited to join the 2021 organizing committee. ASSETS is the premier conference presenting the latest research, policy, and technology in computing fields relating to accessibility […]
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