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Director's Welcome

We welcome you to the R2D2 Center. Our website provides an electronic overview of our activities and serves as a key information resource for our projects. Feel free to explore the website and the projects that the R2D2 Center supports. Our R2D2 team hopes that our work and the resources we provide may be of help to your efforts and work in outcomes assessment and design for everyone, including people with disabilities.

Thank you for perusing our website.

Most cordially,

portrait of Roger O. Smith, Ph.D., director, R2D2 Center

Roger O. Smith, Ph.D.
Director, R2D2 Center


Research Participants Needed
for R2D2 and Affiliated Studies


Current Events, Announcements, and Highlighted Items


Selected Active Projects

Logo for the BIFOCAL Project Logo for the Evidence-based Technology Integration (ETI) Training program Logo for Access Ratings for Buildings
Logo for RERC on Technology for Pediatric Orthopaedic Disabilities Logo for the TechSpec Assistive Technology Professional Development Program X-FACT logo
Community Design Solutions logo UD I-TEACH project logo MED-AUDIT Logo
Logo for the Housing Plus project Logo for the ACCESS-ed Project GOT-IT Project logo
Senior Home Assessment and Repair Project Logo ACCESS Mainstreet project logo ATOMS Project logo
  Logo for Adverse Outcomes Following Inpatient Rehabilitation: Trends and Reasons  

Affiliated Programs and Centers

logo for the UW-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences logo for the University of Wisconsin System logo for University of Wisconsin at Madison
logo for the UW-Milwaukee Occupational Science and Technology Department logo for Marquette University logo for University of Wisconsin at Stout
logo for the UW-Milwaukee Student Accessibility Center logo for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin Rebuilding Together logo
UWM Ergonomics logo DeYoe Lab for Neuroscience logo Layton Boulevard West Neighbors logo
ATUA lab logo logo for Assistive Technology Research Institute at Misericordia University IndependenceFirst logo
  RERC on AMI logo  

R2D2 Center Mission

The R2D2 Center performs interdisciplinary basic research investigations, applied research and development, and innovative instruction related to technology and disability.