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  • Accessibility + IBM Watson?

    What's machine learning and what can designers do with it? The NCSU 1st year Masters of Graphic Design Studio took on just this question over the course of the semester. We began…
    Inclusive Design, Sponsored Research
  • A Bag of Beacons: Enabling Personal Mobility

    This fall, the NC State graphic design junior studio spent two weeks collaborating with the SAS accessibility team. The goal: remove barriers to independent personal mobility for people with visual impairments or…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • Yerkes Observatory

    Making Astronomy Accessible

    This week, Alexandra Grossi (NCSU MGD '17) and I travelled to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. There we met with a team of researchers and educators committed to making the study of astronomy…
    Inclusive Design, Sponsored Research
  • What Does That Say? A Low Vision Design Workshop at Drake

    A few years ago I traveled to Des Moines to work with graphic design students at Drake University. We spent two days discussing, concepting, prototyping and testing data visualizations for low vision…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • images of hi-fi interfaces created for the project: an interactive large tooth, an interactive display, an app, a CUI, a soundscape

    Re-envisioning the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’s Acro Exhibition as an Autism Friendly Space

    Last semester the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences asked NC State graphic designer seniors in my special topics studio to take on a complex problem. One of their key exhibitions—the Acrocanthosaurus Exhibition—was not an autism…
    Inclusive Design
  • interface for visualizing tides. text and tides white reversed out from black. red patterns indicated

    How might designers create data visualizations for low-vision users?

    Undergraduate graphic design students at NC State University collaborated with SAS Analytics to answer this question as they explored how SAS products might be made accessible to a range of low vision…
    Inclusive Design, Sponsored Research

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Helen Armstrong

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Researching interface design, disability & machine learning.
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