User:Librarycasti7/Sile O'Modhrain
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Sile O’Modhrain is a blind Irish professor (1) and braille innovator. [1][2] She is on a mission to make musical and digital interfaces more tactile. [2]
Early life[change | change source]
O’Modhrain pursued a master’s degree in music technology from the University of New York.[1] She later went on to work for BBC Network Radio as a studio engineer (1). O’Modhrain later found herself out of a job when BBC made the switch from tactile to digital editing. (1) She then went on a scholarship at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and she received her PhD.[2] Then Dr O’Modhrain moved on to teach at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast. [1] Dr. O’Modhrain then directed the Palpable Machines group at Media Lab Europe. [1]
Career[change | change source]
Dr. O’Modhrain now teaches Performing Arts Technology at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan (1). Dr. O’Modhrain is unable to access certain things seeing people can (1). She decided to find a way to help blind people “feel” certain untranslatable things (1). She has now gone on to design tablets that pop out braille (like little air bubbles) (1). Dr. O’Modhrain also is inventing a moose (an extension to a computer’s mouse) (1). The moose allows people to control their computer through touch (1). She is working on an iMessaging system allowing you to send touch (1). Dr. O’Modhrain is also working on developing other tactile interfaces that show physical gestures and feelings (1).