Deborah Fels
Director, Inclusive Media & Design Centre
Professor
Ted Rogers School of Management
Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management
Toronto, Ontario
dfels@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 557619
Expert In
Accessibility
Aging
Culture and creativity
Health technology
Human factors
Inclusive media and new technologies
Inclusive technologies, tools and design
Mobile and pervasive computing
Modalities of experience
Multimedia interfaces in the rehabilitation field
Technology and intelligent systems
User interface design for persons with disabilities
Web accessibility
Bio/Research
Dr. Fels has a Ph.D in Human Factors from Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management and the Director of the Inclusive Media and Design Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (forme...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Fels has a Ph.D in Human Factors from Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management and the Director of the Inclusive Media and Design Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). Her research interests involve inclusive design, access to media and technology for people with disabilities and older adults, inclusive video game design and inclusive business.
Current research projects include: 1) emotive captioning and music visualization, including software application, EnACT for adding animation to text; 2) audio description, including software tool, LiveDescribe and LiveDescribe Web; 3) TerpTube - co-creator for creating online sign language web pages and for sign language interpreter training support tool; and 4) sensory substitution techniques for access to sound and visual information including creation of a vibrotactile system called the Emoti-chair and a vibrotactile music facility, the VibroFusionLab. She is also a professional engineer.
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Current research projects include: 1) emotive captioning and music visualization, including software application, EnACT for adding animation to text; 2) audio description, including software tool, LiveDescribe and LiveDescribe Web; 3) TerpTube - co-creator for creating online sign language web pages and for sign language interpreter training support tool; and 4) sensory substitution techniques for access to sound and visual information including creation of a vibrotactile system called the Emoti-chair and a vibrotactile music facility, the VibroFusionLab. She is also a professional engineer.
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