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Timeline: July 2025 - August 2025
Current Version: beta
User Growth: 5x 8x (in a month)
Collaborators: Dr. David Wilson (Supervisor)
Exploring the relationship between digital fabrication and accessibility to understand how the rise of fabrication tools and DIY culture has impacted the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities.
Timeline: January 2021 - August 2025
Current Stage: Complete
Impact: 3 publications, 1 under review, and 13 citations
Collaborators: Dr. David Wilson (Supervisor) & Dr. Nadia Najjar (Co-PI)
Student often struggle with learning basic programing concepts (e.g., loops, conditionals). Physical representations of these concepts can be a good teaching tool to support assisit learning.
Timeline: August 2023 - Ongoing
Current Stage: Data Analysis
Impact: 1 publication
Collaborator: Dr. Manoj Deshpande (Research Partner), Atefeh Mahdavi (tech expert), Dr. Dimitris Papanikolau (Supervisor)
Exploring ways to connect people, separated and segregated in space, through inflatable pixels and create a sense of collaboration
Timeline: January 2018 - August 2019
Current Stage: Complete
Impact: 1 Publications, 1 Grand from Knight Foundation, and 4 Citations
Research Partners: Syeda Fatema Mazumder (Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte), Nazmus Sakib Miazi (Northeastern University, Boston)
With the rise of AI popularity, we explore how the basic concepts of AI are explained in popular MOOCs, focuing on the analogies and metaphors being used.
Timeline: August 2025 - Ongoing
Current Stage: Data Collection
Impact: N/A