Talks
Leon Lu Visits Ability Project
December 8, 2022
In his talk titled “Learning Music Blind,” Leon Lu discusses his ongoing work understanding challenges and strategies for music learning that can inform the development of assistive technologies. (Zoom recording with automated captions.)
Beth Rosenberg on Disability inc Podcast
May 24, 2022
Beth Rosenberg talks with Jean Mizutani, the Senior Education Specialist at INCLUDEnyc on this episode of Disability INC entitled “From Customer to Innovator: Why Disabled People Belong in the Technology Field”. Beth is the the Founder/Executive Director of Tech Kids Unlimited, not-for-profit educational organization that teaches 21st century computer science thinking and technology skills to neurodiverse youth ages 7 to 21 located virtually and in the NYU Ability Project.
Leandro Guedes Visits Museum Accessibility Class
April 28, 2022
Leandro Guedes visits the Ability Project’s Access and Assistive Technology in Historic Sites and Museums class to present his work in his talk titled: Enhancing the User Experience of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Museums. (Zoom recording with automated captions from otter.ai)
Allan Goldstein on Disability INC Podcast
November 9th, 2021
Allan joins Liz Sargent on this episode of Disability INC entitled “Exploring the Sibling Story Through Writing and Film”. They discuss why having brothers and sisters with disabilities stimulates the creation of art. Allan speaks from his recent book Fred and Me: A Willowbrook Survivor’s Story
Lauren Race Presents at Past Forward
November 3rd, 2021
Lauren presents her research on multisensory museum exhibits, and the importance of tactile, auditory, and smell experiences to remove barriers to information at museums. She presented with our collaborators at the Intrepid Museum and Cheryl Fogle-Hatch.
NYU Center for Disability Studies | Disability Justice and the Politics of Inclusive Design
November 12th, 2020
Regine Gilbert and Sara Hendren discuss their recent books, followed by conservation with Luke DuBois and Amy Hurst
- Regine Gilbert, Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind
- Sara Hendren, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World
Lauren Race Presents at MCN 2020 (Virtual Conference)
November 10th, 2020
Lauren Race presents her research on accessible touch objects in historic sites and museums at the virtual Museum Computer Network conference.
ASSETS 2020 (Virtual Conference)
October 26-28, 2020
ABILITY PROJECT RESEARCH FEATURED
- Paper: How Blind and Visually Impaired Composers, Producers, and Songwriters Leverage and Adapt Music Technology
IDM Speaker Series with Amy Hurst
ASSETS 2019
Pittsburgh, PA 
RESEARCH FEATURED
- Evaluating Instructor Strategy and Student Learning Through Digital Accessibility Course Enhancements Claire Kearney-Volpe, Devorah Kletenik, Kate Sonka, Deborah Sturm and Amy Hurst
- Poster: Designing Tactile Schematics: Improving Electronic Circuit Accessibility Lauren Race, Chancey Fleet, Joshua A. Miele, Tom Igoe and Amy Hurst
- Poster: Syncing Pre-Recorded Audio Description to a Live Musical Theater Performance using a Reference Audio Recording Dirk Vander Wilt and Morwaread Farbood
- Demo: Non-Visual Beats: Redesigning the Groove Pizza William Payne, Alex Xu, Amy Hurst and S. Alex Ruthmann
The Ability Exchange Film Screening
MakerSpace, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The Best Years of Our Lives: Engineering the Body
Film screening and talkback with historian David Serlin and assistive technology expert Anita Perr. This event is part of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Science on Screen series. Discussion available on Youtube.