Baby Bliss Bot project has fine-tuned the Llama2 model to enhance translation between English sentences and Blissymbolics sentences. Blissymbolics, a symbol language used primarily by individuals with physical disabilities who are non-speaking, presents a unique challenge for computational linguistics. The goal was to evaluate how well a large language ...

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Over the past year, several rounds of co-design have been held to get feedback on the Community Led Co-design Kit , its resources, and how it can improve learning outcomes for its users. Using the feedback, the team has updated the website, information architecture, and added a search function. We are also in the process of updating the kit content based on ...

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On March 19th and 20th, 2024 CIFAR’s Data Communities for Inclusion Solution Network held a workshop in London, UK titled Building Solidarity on Community-led Data Governance. This intimate workshop brought together members of the Solution Network with thought leaders, technologists, and policymakers from diverse areas of expertise including cooperative ...

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Off the shelf robots are often inaccessible for many learners. The Open Robot Kit seeks to enable learners and educators to easily create a ‘one-size-fits-one’ robot that works with the Weavly coding environment. After initial design and prototype work by Tetra TMU students, the Floe team continued to iterate on the Tetra TMU Art Bot, focusing on a dual ...

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While co-designing a platform intended to be used by people who use ASL, LSQ, English and French, it became clear that very few websites include sign languages in their sites at all. The Deaf individuals participating in co-design noted that not only are ASL and LSQ used by the Deaf community, but also that there are many Deaf people who don’t read or write ...

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