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Saturday, August 10 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Designing Visually Accessible Spaces (DeVAS): A Tool to Predict Visibility of Potential Hazards During the Design Phase

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Following a decade of research, DeVAS has created a set of prototype software tools that predict visibility for mild through severely degraded vision. Built upon collaborative research at University of Minnesota’s Low Vision Lab, University of Utah Computer and Cognitive Science, and Indiana University Lighting Design, this luminance based National Eye Institute supported work (NIH#5-RO1EY017835-10) will be presented in the context of the designer’s workflow, enabling the design of safer environments for the mobility of low vision individuals. Additional presenters include low vision specialist Gordon Legge via an introductory video and computer scientist Bill Thompson to respond to technical questions via phone.
Speakers
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Robert Shakespeare

Rob Shakespeare is principal consultant at Shakespeare Lighting Design LLC. As Professor of Lighting Design and a researcher, he served at Indiana University for 29 years. He co-authored Rendering With Radiance: The Art and Science of Lighting Visualization with Greg Ward. Currently... Read More →
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William Thompson

Thompson is Professor of Computer Science, School of Computing, University of Utah. His primary research interest is in the area of computational vision, with an emphasis on problems involving the determination of spatial organization.He is first author of Visual Perception from a... Read More →
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Gordon Legge

Legge is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota and  the DEVA project  PI.  In 2015 he was awarded the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education in recognition of outstanding contributions to vision research... Read More →

Saturday August 10, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Olmsted 1
  Seminar Session, Science/Technology

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