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Jutta Treviranus (Director)

Director,
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)

Senior Research Associate,
Faculty of Information Studies (FIS)

jutta treviranus
    Jutta Treviranus
    Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
    University of Toronto
    First Floor 130
    St. George St.
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada
    M5S 1A5
    TEL: (416) 978-5240
    FAX: (416) 971-2629
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With the help of a number of people and departments here at the University of Toronto I established the ATRC in 1994. I envisioned it as a centre for service, research and development which kept up with and influenced emerging trends but also served users with their day to day information technology access needs. I had anticipated that we could tap into skills, knowledge and resources available at a large university and apply these creatively to meet access challenges. Thanks to talented staff, many of whom are students, the ATRC continues to meet these expectations.

If you have any comments or suggestions on the ATRC, the activities, the projects, the direction, please e-mail me at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

The following is a brief bio:

Jutta Treviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on inclusive design of information technology (http://atrc.utoronto.ca/). Jutta has led a large number of international multi-partner research networks that have led to broadly implemented technical innovations that support inclusion. She has helped to develop pivotal accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally (including W3C WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines, IMS AccessForAll and ISO 24751). She is also a member of a number of key advisory panels including the AODA advisory committee. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information, the Faculty of Medicine, and KMDI, at UofT.


Interests

My particular areas of research interest are:

achieving accessibility by matching the system configuration and content to the personal needs of each individual

  • context and location aware mobile technologies and  ubiquitous Web applications that improve accessibility skilled use of the computer as a tool by people with disabilities
  • authoring tools that are accessible and create accessible content accessible rich media

Publications related to these interests include:

Treviranus, J., Petty, L., (in press) Computer Access, in Manual of Assistive Technology. Mosby, Chicago.
Treviranus, J., Coombs, N. Bridging the Digital Divide in Higher Education, Proceedings of the Educause 2000 Conference, Nashville Tennessee, 2000.  
Treviranus, J. Adding Haptics and Sound to Spatial Curriculum, 2000 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville.  
Treviranus, J. Click the Captions, Select the Descriptions: Making Captioning and Video Description Essential for any Learner in Broadband Education. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference, Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles.  
Weiss, T., Whiteley, C., Treviranus, J., and Fels, D.I. (2000 in press). PEBBLES: A personal technology for meeting educational, social and emotional needs of hospitalized children. Personal Technologies.  
Treviranus, J. (1994). Mastering Alternative Computer Access: The role of understanding, trust and automaticity. Assistive Technology: the official journal of RESNA, 6(1), 26-42.
Treviranus, J. (1994). Virtual Reality Technology and People with Disabilities. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. MIT Press. 3(3),201-208.
Treviranus, J. (1992). "Quartering, Halving, Gesturing: Computer access using imprecise pointing." Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of RESNA, Toronto, Canada.
Shein, F., Treviranus, J., Brownlow, N. D., Milner, M., & Parnes, P. (1992). Human-Computer Interaction by People with Physical Disabilities. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 9(2), 171-181.

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