This $985,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University to develop an AI-based accessibility toolkit. The goal is to provide students with mobility disabilities a guide for adapting lab spaces to be accessible, promoting greater inclusion of persons with physical disabilities in STEM fields.
The project will involve developing a generative AI toolkit that can rapidly and automatically produce accessible lab designs from building information models to accommodate the active participation of students with mobility impairments. Purdue will partner with the Gregory S. Fehribach Center STEM Internship Program to test the accessible lab designs in 3D virtual reality environments with college students with physical disabilities. Further adaptations will be made based on user feedback, and optimization models will be developed to consider workflow impacts. The grant period runs from August 2024 through July 2029.
A $332,000 subaward was made to Cornell University to support the project's user-centered design and evaluation activities.
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