Excel Students Design Customized Technologies Through HCI-centered Course

Georgia Tech students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are designing technologies tailored to them while teaching faculty and researchers about their needs in the process.

Rachel Lowy, a Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing, piloted a new human-computer interaction design course for IDD students in Georgia Tech’s Excel program. Excel is an Inclusive Postsecondary Education (IPSE) program that offers a four-year track for IDD students to earn two separate certificates.