Associate Professor of Computer Science Krishna Venkatasubramanian will present experience in designing an accessible tool called R3: Recognize, Report, Respond to educate adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) about abuse. I/DD (e.g., Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, Autism, Smith-Magenis syndrome, etc.) are a set of disabilities that negatively affect the trajectory of an individual’s intellectual, emotional, and/or physical development. The abuse of adults with I/DD is at crisis levels in the US and incidents of abuse committed against people with I/DD are woefully underreported. One major reason for this lack of reporting is that people with I/DD often do not know what constitutes abuse.

Venkatasubramanian directs the Accessible and Socially Aware Technologies (ASSET) lab, which focuses on building technologies for and with marginalized populations using ideas from the fields of accessibility and human-computer interaction.