Bill Curtis-Davidson
Social
Biography
Throughout his career, Curtis-Davidson has held influential roles in industry, consulting, and emerging technology environments, including leadership positions at IBM, Level Access, and Magic Leap. His work has shaped accessible product design across domains such as air travel, consumer electronics, enterprise hardware, and extended reality (XR). He holds a patent in automated accessible wayfinding and has helped develop communities of practice that advance responsible innovation in AI and XR.
As a Certified AI Governance Professional and ForHumanity Certified Auditor & Fellow, he has contributed award winning policy and standards work with organizations including OECD, NIST, Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT), Partnership on AI, and ForHumanity. He is known for collaborative leadership and a practical, research informed approach to accessibility.
Curtis-Davidson is also an active mentor and serves on the Georgia Tech LMC Degree Program Alumni Advisory Board, having previously served on the Georgia Tech MS‑HCI Degree Program Advisory Board.
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Editor & White House Challenge Participant, "Data-Enabled Travel: How Geo-Data Can Support Inclusive Transportation, Tourism, and Navigation through Communities"
2011-03-10
As part of the 20th Anniversary of the ADA, I was one of 20 invited experts to take part in a White House Challenge. The Challenge team produced a report that studied accessible transportation - market context, selected US efforts, data requirements, application areas across multi-modal transportation planning and execution, regional point of interest (POI) information foraging, and apps that promote citizen science and engagement. URL: http://geoaccess.org/content/report-data-enabled-travel
Invited Expert Moderator, US Dept of Transportation, Technological Innovations in Transportation for People With Disabilities Workshop
2011-02-23
To examine technological innovations in accessible transportation and better understand the requirements of pedestrians and travelers with visual impairment or other disabilities, the US DoT FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology convened a 1-day workshop to explore this area. I served as one of the experts invited to produce a white paper/report: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/pubs/11041/
Invited Worldwide Expert, UN Expert Group Meeting on Building Inclusive Society and Development through Promoting ICT Accessibility: Emerging Issues and Trends
2012-04-21
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat (DESA), UN Information Center (UNIC), Nippon Foundation of Japan
Report/Expert Input for 2013 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Disability and Development, United Nations, 2012. URL: http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1596
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S.
Information Design & Technology / New Media
1998
Atlanta College of Art
B.F.A.
Drawing / Printmaking / Computer Graphics
1990
Languages
- English
Style
Availability
- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
Patents
Automated wayfinding of an accessible route
US9909880B2
2018-03-06
Embodiments of the invention relate to selecting a path for navigation based on path accessibility. A set of one or more paths is generated, with each path including path elements associated with path traversal. A list of preference data is stored. A set of accessible paths is dynamically calculated, which includes evaluating elements of each path of the generated set against the list of preference data. The set of accessible paths is converted into a path selection. The path selection is navigated, which includes visually displaying the path selection.
