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Image of North Lawndale Creative Space Revitalization

Placekeeping and Participatory Design in Chicago’s Douglass Park

A framework for designing trust between humans and delivery robots from Shreya Mathur

Crossing Paths: When Human-Centered Frameworks Are No Longer Enough

View of Wheelchair Guide Overview for Lurie Children's Hospital

Pediatric Wheelchair Guidance Supports Caregivers

Expanding and Sustaining the CAPABLE Aging in Place Program

EHL AutoDX Project

AutoDX: Optimizing an Automated Documentation Tool to Fit Provider Workflow

Three wearable bracelet devices

Novan: Reimagining Emotional Wellbeing

Typical robotic hand with limited capabilities

F1 Hand Controller: Feeling What Robots Touch

One game-based scenario

Making Chicago’s Extreme Weather Plans Work for Everyone

Taiwan Immersion students Samantha Chandra, Han Wen (Vanessa) Chang, and Bhavani Shivaram Prasad with ID Associate Professor Martin Thaler

Designing Mental Health Solutions in Taiwan

morph: Reimagining the TV Remote for the Smart Home Era

Teacher calling on a grade school student

Transforming Educational Decision-Making

Patient-Paced Discharge Education

African American male youth seated in lab situation with gloves, working with specimen

Northstar: Young Black Students Explore Career Pathways with Adaptive Technology

Collective Pantry website wallpaper

Collective Pantry: Seeding System Change Through Storytelling

Meal on an airplane tray

Reducing Meal Waste for More Sustainable Travel

Embedded Finance for a Cashless Society

Raised vegetable garden beds in a community garden.

CF-MOB: Community Food Mobilization in Chicago, Good Food Purchasing Initiative

A wall of white boards with notes from an ID Action Lab workshop.

Values-Based Food Procurement Learning Network