Accessible Wayfinding: Empathy, Human-Centered Design, and a Blank Slate

Roseomics: a blank slate.

Recent technological advances have led to an explosion in the system-wide profiling of biological processes in the study of herpesvirus biology, herein referred to as '-omics'. In many cases these approaches have revealed novel virus-induced changes to host cell biology that can be targeted with new antiviral therapeutics. Despite these successes, -omics approaches are not widely applied in the...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The dominant theory of human nature in modern intellectual life is based on the doctrines of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine; these doctrines are being challenged by the sciences of the mind, brain, genes, and evolution. Behavioral geneticists have found that all behavioral traits are partially heritable—challenging the doctrine of the blank slate. Evolutionary p...

Slate: An Argument-Centered Intelligent Assistant to Human Reasoners

We describe Slate, a logic-based, robust interactive reasoning system that allows human “pilots” to harness an ensemble of intelligent agents in order to construct, test, and express various sorts of natural argumentation. Slate empowers students and professionals in the business of producing argumentation, e.g., mathematicians, logicians, intelligence analysts, designers and producers of stand...

Accessible Wayfinding Testbed: Infrastructure and Components

Despite considerable recent interest in research related to wayfinding and navigation of pedestrians, the needs and preferences of people with disabilities (PWDs) are not yet fully addressed. Some of still unaddressed issues are related to understanding the different mobility challenges of PWDs, while others are related to the accessibility of routes and navigation systems/services. Emergence o...

A Human-Centered Design Approach