April 7, 2025 Being on the leadership team involves approximately 5 hours per week of commitment, though this may vary based on your role and upcoming events. The HuskyADAPT chairs are the student leaders who plan and facilitate all HuskyADAPT events, as demonstrated at the Spring Community Meeting. Don’t miss this opportunity to get more involved in CREATE and help HuskyADAPT continue its impactful work! Apply Now Why get involved? HuskyADAPT is a student organization, supported by CREATE, that collaborates with…
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Adapting toys to be accessible for local families
December 20, 2024 At HuskyADAPT‘s holiday toy adaptation event in November, about 80 volunteers adapted toys, ranging from a baseball pitching machine and spinning art kit to lava lamps, remote control cars and a bilingual play drum. The volunteers connected the toys to a switch that can make it easier for children with disabilities to interact with the object in a way that’s accessible to them, such as pressing a button, moving their head or blowing air. For example, a…
HuskyADAPT Mini Hackathon: Adaptive Solutions
November 18, 2024 All six teams came up with innovative solutions. No prizes were given out, but the best “prize” is that there is a plan to further develop the most feasible solutions and give them out to the community through the WATAP 3D printing library and at the 2025 DSHS Community Summit in June. The projects worked on include: All of this was accomplished in just over three hours and the energy in the room was fun and positive throughout…
Spring 2024 Research Showcase
May 30, 2024 The closing event for CREATE’s Community Day 2024 on May 20th, this research showcase was co-sponsored by HuskyADAPT. Posters and presentations A11yBoard: Making Presentation Slideshow Reading and Editing Accessible to Blind Users Designing human-AI and multimodal interactions to make presentation slideshow reading and editing accessible. Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, Gene S-H Kim, Jacob O. Wobbrock A11yBoard poster Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit: Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users’ Abilities To enable apps to respond to users’…
Community Day 2024 Recap
Thank you to all our presenters, volunteers, and attendees for making this year’s Community Day such a success! We look forward to sharing video and takeaways from the day. Panel 1: Disability and Data: Access and Inequalities An exploration of the positive and negative roles data plays in the lives of people with disabilities and other minority communities. Panel 2: Title II of the ADA: Rule changes and their impact on education An exploration of how changes to Title II of…