College of Design Research Centers

Our four research centers focus on a range of crucial issues, many of which impact our daily lives. Our topics include the development of cities and regions, the healthcare environment, helping those with physical limitations, and new ways to create music.

Men in wheelchairs use a laptop.

Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation

Interim Director: Zerrin Ondin-Fraser

Recognized as a service and research leader in accessibility innovations and assistive/universally designed technologies, the Center promotes and develops user-centered research, products, and services for people with disabilities.
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A graphic design including a city digital twin and heat maps.

Center for Urban Resilience and Analytics

Executive Director: Subhro Guhathakurta

This new, interdisciplinary research center integrates disciplines and data science tools from across campus to advance urban regions' resiliency in the wake of to infrastructural, social, economic, and climate-related stressors.
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Researchers record a simulation of a patient in a gurney and a healthcare provider wearing PPE.

SimTigrate Design Lab

Executive Director: Hui Cai

This research center drives healthcare innovation through integrating evidence-based design and simulation. The center's interdisciplinary team seeks to transform healthcare, predict and optimize outcomes and decrease cost.
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A prosthetic hand and a human hand play the piano.

Center for Music Technology

Director: Gil Weinberg

This collaborative center furthers creative and technological research in music, focusing on the development and deployment of innovative musical technologies that transform the ways in which we create and experience music.
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