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Latest papers
Qualitative evaluation by community health professionals of a technology design for recording and mobilizing patient reported care narratives.
Digital health · 2025 · senior author
Does bouncy equal happy? Comparing user's interpretations of emotions conveyed by one designed moving object based on the soma-semiotic framework.
Applied ergonomics · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $156,000
Inclusive technology and design
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $199,448
WebMoti 2.0
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $2,499,684
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Qualitative evaluation by community health professionals of a technology design for recording and mobilizing patient reported care narratives.
Lakha SF, Sarmiento S, Pennefather P, Purdy N, Holyoke P, Fels D
Does bouncy equal happy? Comparing user's interpretations of emotions conveyed by one designed moving object based on the soma-semiotic framework.
Fels D, Blackler A, Niedderer K
Inclusive technology and design
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah
WebMoti 2.0
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah I.
Keywords: social telepresence; users who are neurodivergent; inclusive design; online synchronous learning
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
Keywords: disability arts and culture; research creation and arts based methods; knowledge translation; technological innovation; accessibility and vitality
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
Keywords: disability arts and culture; research creation and arts based methods; knowledge translation; technological innovation; accessibility and vitality
Dealing with Workplace Disability Following Emergence of A Chronic Condition of Unknown Origin: Impact of Sharing Self-Authored Reflective Narrative Videos.
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah; Kavazanjian, Myda
Keywords: Chronic Pain Management; Patient-Centred Design; Technology And Health; Undiagnosed Condition
Inclusive media and design
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah
Video on demand for blind and low vision viewers.
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah
Investigating vibro-tactile technology and gesture recognition for creative and artistic expression in the hearing, deaf and disabled arts communities
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah I.
Keywords: vibrotactile; multi-media; multi-cultural; multi-modal; artistic; expressive; interactive
Intersecting abilities disability art as a model for arts-informed research practice
Principal investigators: Shea, Geoffrey B.
Keywords: disability art; disability studies; research; creation; contemporary art
Accessible game control system for scooter users
Principal investigators: Fels, Deborah
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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