Experience

Touch Graphics, President and Director of Research. 1997-present
Parsons The New School for Design, Product Design Thesis Instructor, 2008-present
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2008.
University of Arizona, Visiting Faculty, 2001-2002.
New Jersey Institute of Technology. Adjunct Instructor, 1999-2001.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Instructor. 1986 -1987.
Professional Architect, 1986-1997

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Design. M.Arch. 1986
Oberlin College, B.A. 1982.

Awards and Grants

Louis Braille Prize, National Braille Press, 2007.
IDEA Competition, Computer Equipment category. Gold Medal, 2006.
Tech Awards Laureate (Microsoft Education Award), Tech Museum of Innovation, 2004.
US National Inventors’ Hall of Fame Invent Now America Finalist, 2004.
Research Grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, 1996.
Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1986.

Patents

Landau, S. System for Guiding Visually Impaired Pedestrian Using Audio Cues. U.S. Patent No. 7,039,522. Issued May 2, 2006.

Gourgey, K. & Landau, S.Tactile Graphic-Based Interactive Overlay Assembly And Computer System for The Visually Impaired. U.S. Patent No. 7,039,522. Issued Sep 12, 2006.

Publications and Conference Presentations

Landau, S. New York City's Growing Network of Talking Kiosks. Access and the City Conference, Dublin, Ireland. 2008.

Hansen, E., Shute, V., & Landau, S. An Assessment-for-learning system in mathematics for individuals with visual disabilities. In Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. In Press. 2009.

Landau, S. Multi-sensory displays in universal design exhibits. Art Beyond Sight: Multimodal Approaches to Learning, Creativity and Communication, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.

McGinnis, R. & Landau, S. Women in Paintings: A Tactile Graphic Book Featuring Works of Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Heirlich, S. & Landau, S. SAL2: An interactive learning system for Braille literacy. Proceedings of 2007 CSUN Conference, California State University at Northridge.

Landau, S. Development of a universal interactive display for three-dimensional cartographic information: The Smithsonian Institution’s Talking Touch Model of the Washington, D.C. National Mall and environs. Proceedings of the 2007 Technology-Based Learning with Disabilities Conference. Wright State University

Landau, S., McGinnis, R. Ziebarth, B. & Newlin, J. Hearing pictures, touching sounds: multi-sensory approaches in museum interpretation. Proceedings of the 2007 AAM Conference. American Association of Museums.

Landau, S., Russell, M. & Erin, J. The use of the talking tactile tablet as a testing accommodation. RE:view: Rehabilitation and Education for Blindness and Visual Impairment, Spring, 2006. Association for Education of the Blind and Visually Impaired. pp. 7-21.

Landau, S. Illustrated Digital Talking Books: Extending the DAISY/NISO Specification. Proceedings of 2006 CSUN Conference, California State University at Northridge.

Landau, S. Sensible Sight. In Innovation, Fall 2006. vol. 5, no. 2. Industrial Design Society of America, Dulles, Virginia. pp 40-43.

Landau, S. Illustrated Digital Talking Books. In TacNews. International Cartographic Association Commission on Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially Sighted People. June, 2006. pp. 93-100.

Miele, J., Landau, S. & Gilden, D. Talking TMAP: Automated Generation of Audio-Tactile Maps Using Smith-Kettlewell’s TMAP Software. In British Journal of Visual Impairment. May, 2006.

Landau, S. Two rockets: universally designed audio-tactile interactive sculptures. Proceedings of the National Centre for Tactile Diagrams 2005 Conference, Birmingham, England. Royal National Institute for the Blind.

Landau, S., Weiner, W., Naghshineh, K., & Giusti, E. Creating accessible science museums with user-activated environmental audio beacons (Ping!). Journal of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America. 2005.

Landau, S. Audio-tactile accommodations for delivery of standardized tests to blind or visually impaired students. Proceedings of the Council of Chief State School Officials Large Scale Testing 2005 Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Landau, S., & Hansen, E. Audio-Tactile Graphics in an Adaptive Delivery System for Math Tests and Instruction. Proceedings of GAMA Conference, 2005. National Federation of the Blind.

Landau, S., Weiss, M., Giusti, E., Rubin, E. & Proctor, N. Sonic breadcrumbs: digital sign language guides and other innovations. Proceedings of the AAM 2004 Conference. American Association of Museums, Washington, DC.

Landau, S., Holborow, R. & Erin, J. Creating accessible high-stakes tests. Proceedings of the 2004 CSUN Conference, “Technologies and Persons with Disabilities”. California State University at Northridge.

Landau, S., Russell, M., Erin, J. & Gourgey, K. Use of the Talking Tactile Tablet in mathematics tests. Journal for Visual Impairment and Blindness, February 2003. AFB Press, New York.

Landau, S and Gourgey, K. Audio/tactile computing and the talking tactile tablet. In Information Technologies and Disabilities. Spring 2001.

Landau, S. Audio/tactile interface for delivery of multiple choice tests. In Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Touch, Blindness and Neuroscience. Department of Psicolog, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain.

Gutierrez, B., Joffee, E., Gourgey, K. & Landau, S. Evaluation of a prototype talking directory display system (tdds) in an inter-modal transit facility. In Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, November-December 1997.

Landau, S. Tactile graphics: strategies for non-visual seeing. In Thresholds. MIT School of Architecture. 1999.

Synergistic Activities

Panel reviewer, US Department of Education, 2001-2004
Member, Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America, since 2003
Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, since 2001
Laureate, Tech Laureates Venture Network

Assistive technology product design and development; computer telephony; programming; tactile graphic design and production; museum exhibit design and fabrication; non-visual interface design; architectural design and pedagogy.