Contact Information
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Education
Industrial Design, PhD, Loughborough University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, School of Art and Design
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, Coordinated Science Lab
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Gantz, S. Z., Massari, S., McDonagh, D., & Vokoun, J. (2025). AFFRONTARE L’INSICUREZZA ALIMENTARE Empatia e Design Thinking per l’apprendimento trasformativo. Agathon - International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design, 17, 384-397. https://doi.org/10.69143/2464-9309/17272025
Peters, J., Chen, M., Huang, K., Siero, M., Elliot, J., Bleakney, A., Hsiao-Wecksler, E., & McDonagh, D. (2025). A user-inspired mobility experience of the future: a qualitative investigation. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 20(2), 360-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2024.2373303
Taylor, N. M., Robinson, J., Rigo, I., Reck, R., Bleakney, A., Cooper, R. A., McDonagh, D., & Golecki, H. M. (2025). Beyond buildings: Designing and maintaining classroom laboratory spaces for physical accessibility. Journal of Engineering Education, 114(3), Article e70009. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.70009
Wang, O. H., Liu, C., Adler, R. F., Almendral, C., Kletenik, D., Mcdonagh, D., Oro, B., & Zhou, K. Z. (2025). Teaching Accessibility Across Disciplines: Perspectives from ADA Title II. In K. Shinohara, C. L. Bennett, M. Mott, & S. K. Kane (Eds.), ASSETS 2025 - Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Article 182 (ASSETS 2025 - Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663547.3748638
Bleakney, A. W., Elliott, J. R., Hsiao-Wecksler, E. T., Malik, P. B., McDonagh, D. C., Rausin, A. K., Norris, W. R., Almeida de Souza Ramos, J. L., Chen, Y., Xiao, C., Pei, Y., & Song, S. Y. (2024). Low-profile and high-load ball-balancing rolling system. (U.S. Patent No. 12048655).