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Research & Technology

How a high-tech football helmet
could level the playing field for Deaf athletes

October 14, 2023

new tech-infused football helmet made its debut last week and could improve in-game communications between coaches and players who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Haptic Technology creates new ways to
experience music for people who are
Deaf or hard of hearing

October 2023

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For more than a decade, whenever 26-year-old Lauren Fox watched live music, she would focus on the vibrations of one instrument...So earlier this year when Lauren attended a festival with a haptic vest a wearable device that transmits different sounds as vibrations on the skin, it wasn't a strange experience.

‘To develop maps for the blind that are created by the blind’

December 24, 2006

Graduate student draws on personal experience, faculty support in comprehensive project to create tactile diagrams of campus

Textured TPU flooring provides tactile aid to the blind

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November 16, 2011

A Brazilian company called Andaluz Acessibilidade has developed an interesting system using special flooring to allow visually handicapped people to find their way around and avoid accidents.  

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