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Getting Personal: How People Who are Blind Can Leverage AI to Access the Visual World
May 29, 2020 | Hayleigh MooreThe Teachable Object Recognizer mobile application uses AI and machine learning to help access the visual world.

Medium: What If Blind People Wear a Camera That Can Detect You in Public Spaces? (by Kyungjun Lee)
May 29, 2020 | Mia K. HinckleA research team from the UMD HCIL lab examine the social acceptance of wearable cameras.

Journal of Gerontological Nursing: Emerging Smart Home Technologies to Facilitate Engaging With Aging (featuring Amanda Lazar)
March 5, 2020 | iSchool News
Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden, Dr. Jonathan Lazar, and Dr. Susan Winter (left to right) at the 2020 UMD Research Excellence Celebration
Dr. Jonathan Lazar Honored for High-Impact Research in ICT Accessibility
February 27, 2020 | Mia K. Hinckle
Dr. Renee Hill standing in front of Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland
UMD’s Dr. Renee Hill is Recipient of the NFB Accessibility Inclusion Fellowship Award
January 21, 2020 | Hayleigh MooreThe Accessibility Inclusion Fellowship is one of the many ways the National Federation of the Blind is supporting accessibility for bli …
