Tag Archives: Assistive Technology

InterFACES selected as a finalist for 2012 WISE Award

Posted on 16 August 2012 by Administrator

Congratulations to Professor Lizbeth Goodman and Dr Mick Donegan, co-PIs of the SMARTlab project InterFACES, in partnership with SpecialEffect, on being selected as a finalist in this year’s World Summit for Education (WISE) Awards.

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Extra-Ability Technologies Workshop to Support Communications for All, 13 July 2012

Posted on 5 July 2012 by Administrator

Following on from the significant community interest we have received in the SMARTlab’s technologies, since the airing of the Science Squad programme on RTÉ 1: A Sense of Things to Come, we are hosting a special community engagement workshop on … Continue reading →

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RTÉ Science Squad features SMARTlab, airing 7pm, 14 June 2012

Posted on 13 June 2012 by Administrator

Stay tuned for SMARTlab’s debut on RTÉ 1, as The Science Squad takes an entertaining look at some of the exciting and important scientific research that is currently underway in Ireland. Programme 1 – A Sense of Things to Come … Continue reading →

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Sunday Times feature on Dr Mick Donegan and eye-gaze technology

Posted on 22 May 2012 by Eoin

The Sunday Times ran a half-page feature (click image for larger view) in April on Dr Mick Donegan’s work with the Tobii eye-gaze system, as part of the SMARTlab’s InterFACES project (putting a human face on new technologies for learning … Continue reading →

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Dr Mick Donegan uses technology to bring fun to children

Posted on 13 March 2012 by Administrator

On 1 March 2012, G1 publishers released the series ‘Transformers – people who change the world‘, which tells stories of people who changed their own lives in order to make significant contributions to the lives of others. Dr Mick Donegan … Continue reading →

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Prof. Lizbeth Goodman and Dr Mick Donegan at WISE 2011

Posted on 13 February 2012 by Administrator

In this WISE 2011 session, Prof. Lizbeth Goodman and Dr Mick Donegan present state-of-the-art technologies to enable creative self-expression for people with disabilities, involving, for example, gaze control.  Read more… The 2011 WISE Summit, 1–3 November  2011 in Doha, Qatar, … Continue reading →

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New book launch: Gaze Interaction and Application of Eye Tracking: Advances in Assistive Technologies

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Administrator

Dr Mick Donegan, SMARTlab’s Adjunct Professor of Multimodal Interfaces and Assistive Technologies, and Co-PI of the SMARTlab InterFACES research project, has co-written a new book, Gaze Interaction and Application of Eye Tracking: Advances in Assistive Technologies, recently published by IGI … Continue reading →

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SMARTlab Launches New Masters Degree

Posted on 10 October 2011 by Administrator

The MA in Education (Creative Technology Innovation) provides graduates with an understanding of the SMARTlab method for ethical and socially engaged transformative models of trans-disciplinary teaching and learning. It will examine and discuss the history and development of Interactive Digital … Continue reading →

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Dr Mick Donegan – Assistive technologies: Accessibility and e-health

Posted on 7 October 2009 by Administrator

Dr Mick Donegan, our Deputy Academic Director, at SMARTlab, will be participating on the panel about “Assistive technologies: Accessibility and e-health” during ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 conference and forum in Geneva, Switzerland (08 Oct 2009). The panel shall consider that, although … Continue reading →

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Centre for Assistive Technology Announced for Qatar

Posted on 1 June 2009 by Administrator

SMARTlab has been invited to play a key role in the development of an Assistive Technology Centre in Qatar. On April 18 2009 the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) announced plans to establish the centre in Doha, which … Continue reading →

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