Book Equipment
Partner institutions can borrow a range of hardware and software from the Inclusive Design Institute.
If you belong to a partner institution, please contact Bert Shire to book equipment.
Facilities
205 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, Canada
Collaboration Room
The hub of the Distributed Collaboration Network, enabling distributed participation by research team members, supporting resource sharing, collaborative development and both ongoing casual and scheduled communication in multiple modalities.
Networked usability and accessibility labs
A lab offering a full set of assistive technologies and sophisticated synthesis and analysis tools. It is networked to similar facilities at the other 8 institutions as well as to VULab for remote usability testing in real life contexts.
230 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, Canada
Sensory Mode Translation and Media Access Facility
An audio/video recording suite enabling research in captioning and description: Supports both post-production and real time captioning and description.
Experimental Inclusive Meeting Facility
An optimally accessible meeting room that supports remote and on-site multi-lingual translation, real time captioning and description, sign language interpretation and a variety of assistive listening devices.
130 St. George St.
Toronto, Canada
Ubiquitous Web Facility
A facility housing the Mobile and Pervasive Computing research platform, which includes sensors, receivers, transmitters, and a range of both open source or uniquely innovative mobile hardware kits and devices.
49 McCaul St.
Toronto, Canada
Accessible Performance Space
A fully accessible performance space, equipped to enable accessible live performances. The space has support for real-time captioning, description, sign translation and fm listening assistance.
Participatory Inclusive Design Lab
A lab that provides the collaborative technologies and applications needed to engage diverse design participants with a variety of accessibility needs.
Equipment
Accessible Gaming Platform
A range of gaming consoles and peripherals to support researchers in exploring how gaming interfaces can be repurposed to provide more affordable alternative access for individuals with mobility impairments.
Alternative Input Hardware
Various alternative input devices such as touch screens, enhanced keyboards, key guards, specialized pointing devices, tablets, switch interfaces and joysticks.