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The app's user interface reflects a
universal design perspective (we are interested
in addressing the needs of individuals with a
range of different disabilities), and provides an
accessible, multi-modal interaction framework.
The current PedPal user interface is shown in
Figure 3.
Research Team
We have configured a strong interdisciplinary team for developing the PedPal
application. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is the overall technical lead of the
project, with Professor Stephen Smith, Director of CMU's Intelligent Coordination and
Logistics Laboratory in the Robotics Institute, serving as the Principal Investigator, and
Dr. Zachary Rubinstein from the same lab serving as overall Project Manager. Booz
Allen Hamilton (BAH) has been contracted to provide support in the development of
user requirements and system design documents, and both BAH and InTec LLC (VOSB
– Veteran Owned Small Business) also share in project management responsibilities.
To develop the PedPal app user interface, CMU has enlisted the support of
Prime Access Consulting (DOBE - Disability Owned Business Enterprise) and Diyunu
Consulting LLC (WOSB - Woman Owned Small Business). Prime Access Consulting
specializes in the development of accessible user interfaces, and Sina Bahram (CEO)
has been tapped to oversee user interface design and development. Bernardine Dias
(founder of Diyunu Consulting) has considerable development experience with assistive
technology, and is serving in an advisory UI development role. For backend work on
extending and integrating surtrac to produce the target intersection crossing services,
Fig. 3: PedPal User Interface
(a) start up
(b) orient (c) cross
