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It’s more important than ever to stay active and get outside when we can, but for people with sensory impairments, this can be easier said than done. Enter Equarun: an assistive device to help disabled and able-bodied people run together safely and comfortably.

Recently, IDE’s Assistant Professor Euiyoung Kim and his former colleagues from UC Berkeley and University of Minnesota won the 2016 Best Paper Award in the Design Theory and Method division at the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference, virtually held this year. Each year, the conference selects one best paper out of all submissions of that year. The team had worked on the research to examine design method selection process in Human-centered Design teams. The paper is entitled ‘Method Selection in Human-Centered Design Teams: An Examination of Decision-Making Strategies’.

As part of a team from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, IDE’s Mailin Lemke has received a Notable honor in the Strategy & Research category in the 2020 Core77 Design Awards programme. The team won the award for their development of a head-only-MRI system.