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Professor Melanie Baljko describes an innovative research project which aims to use subversion — in its positive and constructive sense of the word — to reimagine the relationship of users with assistive technologies. She argues that the several factors have converged which will allow a shift of paradigm away from a commercial producer-consumer dynamic towards grassroots, open-source, low-cost solutions that more directly engage those who use assistive technologies and other stakeholders.



Professor Melanie Baljko is an interdisciplinary educator and research scientist who is developing novel technologies in Assistive Technology and Speech Rehabilitation. Melanie is an Affiliate Scientist at UHN-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program at York University. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, Melanie has been a member of the York community since 2002, where she continues to encourage her students to integrate their study of computer science with socially-relevant issues.


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