MIT Innovation-Corps for EasyText.AI

2020/01/212020/03/08 ~ John Rochford ~ 1 Comment

I was just accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Innovation-Corps program for my EasyText.AI startup (training AI to simplify web text for people with cognitive disabilities). I am excited!

The I-Corps Program will help me:

explore potential impact;
learn how to assess the market;
get entrepreneurial training; and
strengthen applications for grant opportunities from the United States National Institutes for Health’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

Notes

Two of my wonderful colleagues will join me.

Ben Amankwata, DevOps Engineer
Vadim Droznin, Senior Project Manager

I thank Philip Loew for accepting me into the I-Corps Program.

Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities

2020/01/132020/01/20 ~ John Rochford

I recently published an article, “Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities” in the journal of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

The intended audience is user experience (UX) designers.

Article Content

How the Internet of Things (IoT) Can Best Work for People with Disabilities and Everyone
Independent Living
Loneliness
UX Accessibility
UX Security and Privacy
Smart Cities

Notes

I was honored to write the journal article at the invitation of Professors Soussan Djamasbi and Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic University. They are the editors of the AIS Special Issue on User Experience-driven Innovation.
The Smart Cities section features research by Jutta Treviranus, the keynote speaker at the 2019 Boston Accessibility Conference I hosted with my wonderful partners.
Of interest is this dashboard showing who and where in the world people are downloading the article.

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