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<div class="idi-about-tagline">Designing for the full range of human diversity</div>

<a id="Overview"></a>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The Inclusive Design Institute (IDI) is a generative hub of applied research that addresses the challenge of designing our information and communication systems (ICT) so that they work for all potential users, including users with disabilities, varying language needs and diverse cultural preferences. The IDI is Canada’s first research hub focused on digital inclusion.</p>

<p>Led by Jutta Treviranus, centred at OCAD University, with eight postsecondary partner institutions and over 100 collaborating organizations, the Inclusive Design Institute bears witness to Ontario’s and Canada’s commitment to inclusion. The IDI is a regional centre of expertise networked to local infrastructure at each participating institution, and supportive of distributed collaboration and proactive design and development of inclusive ICT.</p>

<p>This regional centre of expertise will prepare Ontario to respond to the increased demand worldwide for accessible ICT, a demand that is intensified by an aging population and the adoption of accessibility legislation by all major trading partners. The IDI will help Ontario play a leadership role in producing ICT, digital media and information services that meet this growing demand as well as highly qualified personnel to fuel ongoing innovation in inclusive design.</p>

<p>Inclusion and diversity are not only values or rights to be protected, but also catalysts for new ideas, design principles that lead to better design, business strategies that make good business sense and potential economic drivers with ubiquitous social benefits. Inclusion and diversity are Ontario’s richest untapped resources. Research at the IDI will help Ontario sustain and develop this resource and foster the inherent potential to create a vibrant, productive generator of innovative, inclusively designed information and communication systems and services.</p>

<p>Drawing upon long-standing collaborative partnerships between world-class researchers in a variety of disciplines, the IDI infrastructure supports research to develop:
<ul>
<li>software architectures,</li>
<li>design and development tools,</li>
<li>supportive applications,</li>
<li>exemplary policies,</li>
<li>specifications and standards</li>
</ul>
needed to facilitate ubiquitous inclusive ICT design and development. </p>


<p>The regional research hub includes:
<ol class="letters">
<li>networked collaboration and research applications that are designed to be accessible to researchers and research participants with disabilities,</li>
<li>usability and accessibility labs (including facilities for remote testing) that support evaluation of transformable interfaces, extremely diverse users and a wide range of contexts,</li>
<li>infrastructure to research inclusive cultural performances,</li>
<li>modal translation facilities that enable translation between sensory modalities in both two and three dimensions,</li>
<li>facilities to support research in innovative real-time and post production captioning and description,</li>
<li>collaborative facilities to explore language and cultural interpretation, and</li>
<li>a research platform to study context-aware location-aware technologies, intelligent environments and ubiquitous Web applications.</li>
</ol>
</p>

<p>The IDI is an essential building block for establishing the “innovative, creative and inclusive society” discussed in Ontario’s Innovation Agenda. It will spur innovation by eliciting “an openness on the part of people to new ways of thinking and doing that bring about improvements, whether to an individual business, an industry, government, the economy or society as a whole.”</p>

<a id="Leadership"></a>
<h2>Leadership &amp; Governance</h2>

<p>The Inclusive Design Institute (IDI) is organized and maintained through an interlocking series of administrative structures designed to ensure that:
<ul>
<li>Participating institutions have equitable access to the infrastructure and a representative voice in policy setting, and strategic decision-making about the infrastructure and research agenda;</li>
<li>Leadership and communication mechanisms will facilitate close collaboration between the partners and unify the team to carry out the overall vision of the network;</li>
<li>The infrastructure is itself inclusively designed and accessible to researchers, collaborators and participating communities;</li>
<li>Infrastructure setup, maintenance and use are managed effectively and efficiently; and</li>
<li>Network and supporting infrastructure are sustainable and responsive to change and innovation.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<a id="Steering"></a>
<h3>Steering Committee</h3>
<p>Led by Jutta Treviranus and consisting of users representing supporting institutions, end-user communities, and the broad research themes, the Steering Committee develops policies and plans for equitable use, resource sharing, risk management, network communication, and infrastructure maintenance and upgrade. </p>

<a id="Steering"></a>
<h3>Advisory Committee</h3>
<p>Providing ongoing guidance to the Steering Committee and IDI community at large, the Advisory Committee represents end-user communities, implementers of the products of research (including industry, government, public institutions and not-for-profit organizations), and senior national thought and policy leaders.</p>

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<h3>Technical Committee</h3>
<p>Led by Robert Luke, the Technical Committee consists of a designated technical administrative staff member from each participant institution. This committee ensures that resources and skills are shared among all participants, and that infrastructure is effectively designed, developed, maintained and is optimally interoperable.</p>

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<h3>Quality Management Committee</h3>
<p>Representing researchers, consumer organizations, industry, and the public sector, the Quality Management Committee is responsible for quality assurance and monitoring of continuous quality improvement. It will conduct at minimum annual assessments of the research and infrastructure program and will set up an open feedback mechanism for participants in research and broader stakeholders.</p>

<a id="Project"></a>
<h3>Project Manager</h3>
<p>Within the Inclusive Design Research Centre, the Project Manager, supports the Steering Committee, coordinates communication, liaises with regional research teams, plans the maintenance and renewal of the network, and facilitates dissemination of research results.</p>

<a id="Clusters"></a>
<h2>Research Clusters</h2>

<p>IDI research and development projects are grouped into the following strategic clusters:
<ol>
<li>Design and Development</li>
<li>Implementation and Information Practices, with subgroups:
<ol class="letters">
<li>Inclusive Education</li>
<li>Health</li>
<li>Civic Engagement</li>
<li>Culture and the Arts</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Business Case, Policies, Standards and Legislation</li>
<li>Mobile and Pervasive Computing</li>
</ol>
</p>
<a id="Capacity"></a>
<h2>Capacity Building</h2>

<p>The Inclusive Design Institute is committed to building a knowledge community that can address the important goal of digital inclusion within Ontario, throughout Canada and globally. There are several associated programs that help to develop the human capacity to sustain this important agenda:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ocadu.ca/programs/graduate_studies/inclusive_design.htm">Masters of Design in Inclusive Design at OCAD University</a></li>
<li><a href="workshops">Inclusive Design Institute Workshops</a></li>
<li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/stsgrad/browse_thread/thread/33719c327a1e7ed8">Postdoctoral positions within the Inclusive Design Institute</a></li>
</ul>
</p>

<a id="Sustainability"></a>
<h2>Implementation and Sustainability</h2>

<p>In addition to the many companies collaborating in the research and implementing the outcomes of the research, the Inclusive Design Institute has generated a number of new businesses that support digital inclusion within Ontario.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://komodoopenlab.com/">Komodo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://atutorspaces.com/">ATutorSpaces</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.inclusivemedia.ca/">Inclusive Media and Design</a></li>
<li><a href="http://myvoiceaac.com/">MyVoice</a></li>
</ul>

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<p>Recognizing the needs and realities of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) designers, developers and implementers,
IDI research addresses the full ICT life-cycle. The goal is to create tools, strategies, resources and exemplars
that address all stages of ICT production and use.</p>

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<p>At the heart of this research are the complimentary goals of providing (a) the ability to access services and information in a variety of settings, activities and environments and (b) the ability to transform these environments and tools to reduce disability brought on by a mismatch with the needs of the individual. These two goals entail theoretical and applied research into four related areas: Context-aware Services and Cognition, Smart Interfaces, Participatory Material Culture, and Adaptive Games and Inclusive Play.
</p>

<h3>Area # 1: Context-aware Services and Cognition</h3>
<p>
Context-aware services are of particular importance to those with cognitive disabilities and/or neurological impairments that affect communication. Persons diagnosed with aphasia, autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, and those with other mild intellectual disabilities are enabled by mobile devices with context-aware services that offer visual information as cues to improve their understanding of their spatial environment. In these research projects users, parents/caregivers, therapists, and teachers are actively engaged in the design of the services, data collection, analysis, and in developing feedback for redesign. It is this participatory action element that delivers tangible improvements to the development of services in timeframes that are acceptable to those who benefit most from these mobile systems.
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<h3>Area #2: Smart Interfaces</h3>
<p>
The interfaces to information and information systems can be made more adaptable and customizable based on context. One avenue for exploring these challenges is via rapid prototyping of both hardware and software. Digital and material interfaces can now be quickly designed and constructed in non-industrial settings, by non-professionals, thus empowering individuals to modify or create entirely new interfaces and devices, while simultaneously exploring the material and environmental ramifications of their designs. This presents interesting research challenges in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and system design (for example, with respect to requirements engineering or the design of prototyping technologies themselves).
</p>

<h3>Area #3: Participatory Material Culture</h3>
<p>
In keeping with increasing autonomy, mobile computing devices allow not only the retrieval of context-specific information, but also the active participation of users in the co-construction of information that is tied to particular places and objects and potentially shared across a community of users. Social tagging/bookmarking is already a common practice on the Web and, with mobile devices, is being extended to real places and objects. Rapid prototyping and “3-d printing” technologies, combined with a variety of smart cheap sensors, can be used in this area as well to empower individuals to personalize and customize their environments and thus reduce the “mismatch” with their own abilities that leads to the experience of disability. Such solutions, as well as the design process, can be shared across open-source communities, but more research is needed into economically sustainable infrastructure models to facilitate this sharing as well as support the digitally-mediated, knowledge-sharing communities on which it rests.
</p>

<h3>Area #4: Adaptive Games and Inclusive Play</h3>
<p>
There is growing evidence that digital games can fulfill a number of important functions in the lives of disabled children and adults. Games that draw upon geolocation data, physical movement and other non-traditional forms of user interaction are especially promising in this regard, as suggested by recent studies demonstrating how kinetic game systems such as the Nintendo Wii can facilitate entry into gaming for disabled players, both as a novel and entertaining leisure activity, as well as an innovative approach to rehabilitation and exercise. Ongoing developments within gaming technologies and design, such as the introduction of WYSIWYG tools for creating, modifying or heavily customizing games at the level of design, suggest additional opportunities for improving the lives of users with disabilities and other special needs.
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<p>Researchers are working to answer questions such as:
How can inclusive ICT enable greater access in education, health, culture and civic engagement?
What supports are needed to facilitate inclusively designed implementation within these domains?
What domain-specific inclusive design strategies must be considered in the other areas of research?</p>
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<p>
In the age of affordable smart phones, Bluetooth enabled personal area networks, portable devices with ubiquitous Internet access, cloud computing for convenient access to files and vast storage from anywhere, smart environments enabled by things like cheap customizable sensor technology and RFID tagging, there are many innovative opportunities to provide users, including especially those who experience disabilities, with greater mobility, autonomy and independence.</p>

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<p>The IDI is developing the business case for inclusive design through market and labour trend research and the study of the relationship between inclusive design and innovation.
We are bringing together consumers and researchers with disabilities, alternative language and cultural needs and industry leaders to engage legislators, specifications bodies,
advocacy groups and consumer communities in inclusive design research.</p>
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