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Disability, Information Technology
11/12/2024
11:07
New Centre harnessing emerging technologies to empower people with disability (vision and images available)
Monash University
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A new Monash University centre will leverage leading multidisciplinary research to co-design new opportunities for people with disabilities using 3D printing, voice interaction, AI and other new technologies.
The Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre was officially launched, in the presence of Assistant Minister for Social Security, Women and Ageing, the Hon Kate Thwaites MP and Monash University Provost and Senior Vice-President Professor Susan Elliott.
The launch event highlighted the Centre’s major ongoing projects including the 2022 Eureka Prize winner TapeBlocks enabling creative circuit-making for people with intellectual disabilities, Signbank – the online Australian sign [...]