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Ordóñez, P., Krishnaswamy, K., Tull, R. G., Ding, D., & Goldberg, M. (2014). Assistive technology research as a mechanism to broaden the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. In 12th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology.
Ordóñez, Patricia, et al. "Assistive technology research as a mechanism to broaden the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities." 12th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology. 2014.
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Assistive technology research as a mechanism to broaden the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Broadening participation in STEM

Krishnaswamy, Ordóñez, Tull

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This paper examines the field of assistive technology and its potential as a “catalyst for change” for diversity in science and engineering. We will discuss programs in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT) at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras that are using assistive technology to attract underrepresented students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. We will also discuss how …

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