exoskel urban climber
The Exoskel Urban Climber caught my eye, via @bldgblog. It’s another story in military/defense gear that has all kinds of potential prosthetic applications—a strap-on set of shin guards that have 4...
View Articlecorporeal anticipation
For a while I was running posts on a separate personal site, but I stopped and closed it down some time ago. Abler will be my only house for now. And I’ve decided to re-post some of those artifacts and...
View Articleupdate: alterpodium
There’s a full report coming about students’ work on the alterpodium, along with images of the final prototype (in carbon fiber!), but I’m just sharing with you this gif so you get a sense for the...
View Articlea new icon site
Coming soon: a new home and new direction for the Accessible Icon Project. Next week! Thanks to a bunch of you for the exhortations we’ve needed to write more clearly about the work. Continue...
View Articlecarmen papalia at olin, 9/25-29, and more collaborations
This fall’s version of Investigating Normal will include several dream collaborators: Lacy Gillotti of NEADS, a service dog training organization, Alex Geller of Fathom Info, with whom we’ll be...
View Article3, 2, 1 at Eyeo
I’m so pleased my talk at Eyeo is now online, with closed captions available, and another version with audio description. Eyeo folks are super to work with, and I’m grateful to have had the chance to...
View Articlemy first commencement speech
Readers, there’s a brand new site coming soon: a 3-part site, with lots of overdue documentation of new work, my lab, teaching, writing. The featured image is from a collaboration with Alice Sheppard...
View Articleramps in seoul
There’s much more detail to come on this, but you can see here some images from Slope : Intercept’s most recent iteration, a collaboration with dancer Alice Sheppard. MediaCity Seoul invited me last...
View Articlean introduction to disability studies for engineers
I’m sitting on the thesis committee for a graduate student in biomechatronics—a PhD project that will be entirely technical. This student reached out to me to ask about placing engineering for...
View Articlea guide to using this site
Welcome, reader! Abler is no longer updated, but if you want to get a sense for how you can use the content here, I’ve written some guides below. For Sara Hendren’s current projects and writing, see...
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