Mona Minkara Assistant Professor m.minkara@northeastern.edu 617.373.2031 Expertise Mona Minkara in the Press Nature.com These tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals Experiencing data through touch can be especially powerful, says Mona Minkara, a computational chemist and bioengineer at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who began to lose her vision as a young child. Minkara collaborated on a 2022 study4 that described representing data as 3D-printed graphics called lithophanes. This technology makes data accessible to blind and visually impaired people NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mona Minkara, a professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University who is also blind, about a new way to present science data to blind and sighted people alike.
Nature.com These tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals Experiencing data through touch can be especially powerful, says Mona Minkara, a computational chemist and bioengineer at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who began to lose her vision as a young child. Minkara collaborated on a 2022 study4 that described representing data as 3D-printed graphics called lithophanes.
This technology makes data accessible to blind and visually impaired people NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mona Minkara, a professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University who is also blind, about a new way to present science data to blind and sighted people alike.