PhD AI-Enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA)

University of Surrey

Our AI-enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA) PhD programme supports pioneering research in merging AI advancements with human expertise - to improve digital accessibility for all, regardless of age, language, cognitive and sensory abilities. ADA will nurture the next generation of leaders in AI-enabled digital accessibility, uniting experts in engineering, computer science, social and cognitive science, and language, translation and design studies. Join the Leverhulme-funded Doctoral Scholarships Network for AI-enabled Digital Accessibility (ADA) - the first centre of its kind in the world.Work in cutting-edge research facilities including Behavioural Science laboratories for physiological measurements such as eye tracking, a High-Performance Compute cluster for data-driven projects and an immersive media production studio to support experimentation with the creation of accessible audiovisual media.Be at the forefront of an emerging and exciting discipline that will spearhead new approaches across a variety of fields, shaping the future of AI-enabled accessible digital mediaEnhance the understanding of accessibility at its conceptual core and explore diverse methods, combining human expertise with AI progress, to deliver and implement accessibility solutions tailored to diverse user needs.Surrey is ranked in the top 20 for the quality of our research outputs (Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021).What you will studyOur ADA PhD gives you the opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary research programme in conceptual, experimental and/or applied areas of AI-enabled digital accessibility.You could explore a topic such as:Meaningful image/video -to-speech/text accessibility through AIMeaningful speech-to-text accessibility through AIImproving text comprehension and simplification through AITools for meaningful cross-language ADA, especially low-resource languagesEnhancing assistive technology through AIDeveloping novel methods to personalise ADA.

University of Surrey