Learn how assistive technologies can be harnessed to empower visually
and hearing impaired people to take communication into their own hands
Take a look at the List Center’s exhibitions from a new perspective.
Join Noopur Ranganathan in the MIT Biology and Anthropology
departments to consider innovative communication strategies. This talk
will focus on how assistive technologies can be harnessed to empower
visually and hearing impaired people to take communication into their
own hands. Ranganathan will explain how she created and implemented a
voice-to-text-to-refreshable braille solution for the deaf BLIND
COMMUNITY THAT HAS RECEIVED RECOGNITION FROM ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA,
Bulgaria, Turkey, and Canada. This MIT student talk is presented in
conjunction with the List Center's exhibition Christine Sun Kim: Off
the Charts.
[https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/christine-sun-kim-charts-0]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Noopur Ranganathan is an undergraduate student in the department of
biology and anthropology. She has been working in the Jacks Lab since
freshman year working on cancer immunotherapy and also has interests
in creating solutions for the visually impaired and deaf-blind
community. In her spare time, she enjoys running and photography.
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