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Friday, June 5, 2020

READi Professor Chantal Trudel explores Design of Long Term Care Homes with the support of Carleton’s COVID-19 Grant

Chantal Trudel, a READi faculty member, has been awarded a COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grant from Carleton University. Her new project develops short-term and long-term design studies to look at the protocols for infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities. For more information, see the link below.... More

Friday, June 5, 2020

Jesse Stewart, READi Faculty Member, receives Carleton grant to develop collaborative remote musical interface

Jesse Stewart has been awarded one of Carleton's COVID-19 Rapid Research Response for his project, entitled "WAAM WEB: An Online Interface for Telematic Community Music Making." The proposal builds on his previous project We Are All Musicians (WAAM), taking the idea online where people can play a mechanical percussion system together, while... More

Friday, June 5, 2020

READi Faculty Member, Mojtaba Ahmadi, receives grant for research on Semi-Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems for Remote Assessments of COVID-19 Patients

Mojtaba Ahmadi, Carleton professor and member of the READi program, is a recipient of Carleton's COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants. His proposal, Semi-Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems for Remote Assessments of COVID-19 Patients, is a collaborative research project between Carleton University’s Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory (ABL) and... More

Thursday, April 30, 2020

READi Professor, Jesse Stewart, creates 40 music videos in 40 days while recovering from brain surgery

Carleton music professor Jesse Stewart, who had surgery to remove a brain tumour in February returned to music making recently by posting a music video to Facebook every day for 40 days. To read more about this and watch some clips, click the CTV news link below. CTV: Carleton professor creates music while healing... More

Friday, April 24, 2020

Listen to READi Trainee Alicia Gal on the Carleton Pathways Podcast

The Carleton Pathways Podcast interviews students, faculty, alumni, and staff to talk about the paths that have led them to where they are now. The first episode features Alicia Gal, READi trainee and PhD candidate in Systems and Computer Engineering. Listen to the first podcast at the link below.... More

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Audrey Girouard, READi Faculty Member, earns 2019 CS-CAN/Info-CAN Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize

Audrey Girouard, associate professor in Carleton University’s School of Information Technology and part of the READi program, was awarded the Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Prize. Dr. Girouard supervises students with diverse academic backgrounds, working together in the Creative Interactions Lab to develop ways for people with... More

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Inclusive Design for Air Travel is featured by the Carleton Newsroom

Industrial Design graduate Rob Shudra has developed ELEVATE, a system to help reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis for those flying in economy class. READi faculty member Chantal Trudel supervised Shudra and READi student Lindsay McCauley worked on the project. For more about ELEVATE, see the article in the Newsroom linked below. Unique... More

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

READi Faculty Member, Audrey Girouard, is recognized for her mentorship

The 10th annual Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards took place on March 10th this year. READi faculty member and associate professor in Carleton's Information Technology school, Audrey Girouard, was recognized for her exemplary work as a mentor. Quotes about Dr. Girouard from students who nominated her and more information about the award can be... More

Monday, March 2, 2020

READi Trainee, Alicia Gal, presents at the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s Curiosity on Stage Series

On February 29th, 2020, Alicia Gal, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering and a READi trainee, presented her research for the Curiosity on Stage audience at Canada's Science and Technology Museum. The presentation, READi for Sport 3 - Sports Engineering, demonstrated how technology is being used in sports and performance analysis. For... More

Friday, January 3, 2020

READi Director, Adrian Chan, and READi collaborator, Cathy Malcom Edwards, are on The Goods

Adrian Chan and Cathy Malcolm Edwards join Dahlia Kurtz on The Goods for CFRA News Talk Radio to talk about their work and personal experiences in accessibility. Listen at the link below. Adblock software must be turned off to access the stream.... More

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

READi Trainee, Patricia Bérubé is featured by Carleton Grad Students

Patricia Bérubé, a READi student whose work explores making visual art accessible for blind  and low-vision audiences, was featured by Carleton for her research. Patricia received both the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholarship and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC Scholarship for her work.... More

Friday, December 6, 2019

READi Celebrates Blue Beanie Day

READi members and friends wore their blue beanies in celebration of web standards that improve web accessibility. The blue hats are a nod to Jeffrey Zeldman, who wears one in the author photo of his book, Designing with Web Standards. Celebrate web accessibility by wearing a blue beanie any day and posting a photo... More

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