Joshua A. Miele
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Joshua A. Miele

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Dr. Miele self identifies as a blind scientist, designer, and disability activist. He is Distinguished Fellow of Disability, Accessibility, and Design at UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, as well as an Amazon Design Scholar focusing on accessible experiences for Amazon Devices. He has a bachelors degree in physics and a Ph.D. in psychoacoustics from the University of California at Berkeley. For over 20 years he based his work at the Smith-Kettlewell Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Blindness and Low Vision in San Francisco. There he led a team of engineers, scientists, and students dedicated to addressing a wide variety of accessible information challenges in education, employment, and entertainment. His work integrates universal and inclusive design, accessibility engineering, education research, psychophysics, disability studies, and other disciplines, applying emerging technologies and ideas to a wide range of social and information accessibility challenges. He is most well-known for his work on Tactile Maps Automated Production (an award-winning tool that makes tactile street maps accessible for blind and visually-impaired travelers), YouDescribe (a crowdsourcing tool that allows anyone to add audio description to any YouTube video to make it more accessible for blind viewers), Show and Tell (an Alexa experience that uses computer vision to identify packaged pantry items), and the Blind Arduino Project (a collaborative community building and disseminating knowledge to support blind makers to independently design and build their own accessible devices). Dr. Miele writes, advises, and collaborates widely on the design of accessible experiences, accessible research methods, and disability inclusion. He is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, father of 2, and lives in Berkeley California.
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