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Hyunju Park receives NSERC USRA funding and CVR Summer Scholarship

Hyunju Park, third year undergraduate student in Digital Media at AMPD has received NSERC USRA grant and inaugural CVR scholarship to work with Dr. Shital Desai on 'interactive-adaptive technology for people with dementia'. Hyunju will spend the summer in developing interactive interfaces to support task sequencing in people with dementia. She will work with RAY […]

Call for Graduate Students

Dr. Shital Desai received Petro Canada Young Innovators Award for 2021. SaTS lab is inviting exceptional students to pursue a graduate degree in designing accessible prompts for people with dementia.

MSCOT Graduate Student Presentations - Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Four MScOT students will be presenting their work at upcoming Graduate Research Day to take place virtually on Wednesday, June 23rd. Register to hear them talk about their work on Chronic Pain Management in adults and Task Sequencing protocol development using triangulation methods. https://ot.utoronto.ca/research/2021-research-day-thelma-cardwell-lecture/ More details and materials for the day (full schedule, zoom link etc.) will […]

DESN 2011 Designing for Human Interactions exhibition

In light of the ongoing pandemic, a virtual exhibition of students work in DESN 2011 - Designing for Human Interactions was organized. Students worked on a design brief to design interactions for children to learn CPR techniques, using Design Thinking process. This project was a Global Design Studio initiative to practice multidisciplinary experiential education, a […]

PostScript: online series on accessibility, disability, and digital publishing hosted by Public Access.

Dr. Desai was invited to moderate Best Practices session at PostScript, an online series on accessibility, disability, and digital publishing, hosted by Public Access. Peter Pavement, CEO and creative director of Surface Impression presented a talk on 'Digital Design for Disability Arts: Creativity and Accessibility'. In this presentation, Peter explored some of the design decisions […]