Materials :
Resource Persons' Materials :
Universal Design Web Sites
Contributed as a handout by
Joseph Kwan
Adaptive Environments Center
www.AdaptiveEnvironments.org
Adaptive Environments is a 27 year old educational non-profit
organization committed to advancing the role of design in expanding
opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities.
Source of news, events, opportunities, projects and publications.
Age Concern
www.ace.org.uk
Age Concern is the UK's largest organization working with and for older
people.
AGE - European Older People's Platform
http://www.age-platform.be
Aims to voice and promote the interest of older people in the European
Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most.
Age Lab
http://web.mit.edu/agelab
Established in '99 to develop new technologies promoting healthy,
independent living through the human lifespan. Research involved
engineering, computer science, human factors, health and medical sciences,
management, marketing, and the social and behavioral sciences.
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
www.aarp.org
Organization for mature adults 50 and above in the United States.
Information on health, long-term care, economic security, independent
living and residential design for the home.
Bobby
www.bobby.watchfire.com
Bobby is a comprehensive web accessibility software tool designed to
help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance
with existing accessibility guideline.
Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/inclusivedesign
A project-based research website for inclusive design.
Center for Accessible Environments (CAE)
www.cae.org.uk
CAE is an information provider and a forum for collaborative dialogue
between providers and users on how the built environment can best be made
or modified to achieve inclusion by design.
Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA)
www.ap.buffalo.edu/~idea/
School of Architecture, State University of New York at Buffalo
CAST: Center for Universal Design
www.design.ncsu.edu/cud
Center founded by Ron Mace, FAIA, father' of Universal Design. Hold
copyright to principles of Universal Design.
Cornell University –College of Human Ecology
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
www.humec.cornell.edu/units/dea
Hub of Academic cross-disciplinary inquiry.
Danish Center for Accessibility
http://www.dcft.dk
The center offers information and advice about accessibility and
inclusive @ design.
Design Center for Global Needs
@ San Francisco State University
www.sfsu.edu
Ricardo Gomes, Professor of Industrial Design created the Center for
multi-disciplinary exploration of universal design, cultural identity,
design for social responsibility and community design.
Design Council: About Design
www.designcouncil.org.uk
A comprehensive knowledge-base covering key aspects of design.
Design for All Foundation
www.designforall.org
Working to achieve that everyone can enjoy open spaces, products and
services with equal opportunities.
European Institute for Design and Disability (EIDD) / Design for All
European Network
www.design-for-all.org
Premier EU-wide organization Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to
inclusive design. Annual product design competition
The EQUAL Research Network
www.fp.rdg.ac.uk/equal/
A UK-wide EPSRC funded Network for Extending Quality Life
of Older People and Disabled People.
The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk
The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre works to advance a socially inclusive
approach to design through practical research and projects with industry.
Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) Universal Design Committee
http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/udidsa/noframes.htm
Network with about 600 members.
International Association for Universal Design (IAUD)
www.iaud.net
Promotes practical researches on and the realization of universal
design with the members from various fields, the advisors, and others.
National Center for Accessible Media [NCAM]
www.wgbh.org/wgbh/index.html
NCAM is a research and development facility dedicated to expand access
to present and future media for people with disabilities, to explore how
existing access technologies may benefit other populations, and to provide
access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
Lighthouse International
www.lighthouse.org
U.S. hub of research and advocacy, including design,. related to vision
impairments.
Ricability
www.ricability.org.uk
A consumer-research agency with expertise in product evaluation for
older and disabled people. Many reports on product evaluation by
specialist user panels and usability experts.
Royal National Institute for the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk
Important resource for research and product information relative to
vision limitations including excellent telecommunications information.
RSA Inclusive Design
www.inclusivedesign.org.uk
A ‘one-stop' website bringing together new and existing information
about inclusive design, suitable for newcomers as well as practitioners.
Sensory Trust
http://www.sensorytrust
Raises awareness of good practice in urban and extra-urban green space
design and management.
Travel guides for Tourists with Disabilities
http://europa.eu.int/
Provide information on the existing tourism facilities for tourists
with disabilities.
Universal Design Magazine (Japan)
www.universal-design.co.jp
English and Japanese, occasional publication.
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