ObjectiveEd Innovation Lab
R&D insights behind BuddyBooks, LifeLaunch Virtual Adventures, SKILVIIL, Kids Like Me Bookshelf and more.
Projects
ObjectiveEd Lab advances literacy and life-skills for struggling readers and learners with disabilities. Backed by NSF, NIH, and NIDILRR grants, our team of educators, researchers, and technologists transforms evidence into engaging tools—like BuddyBooks, LifeLaunch Virtual Adventures, SKILVIIL games, and Kids Like Me role-model stories.
Here you’ll find a concise snapshot of our work so far: the federal and foundation grants that power our R &D, the multidisciplinary experts who guide each project, and a curated reading list that shapes our thinking on literacy, accessibility, and learning science. As new studies and white papers are published, we’ll post highlights here—distilling key findings—so educators and partners can track our progress and impact.
Products developed from our research
With BuddyBooks, a child and the computer take turns reading one sentence at a time from popular books. That keeps the child engaged in the story as they co-read with the computer. At the same time, the AI in BuddyBooks helps the child where they struggle, and shows the teacher or parent, in a web dashboard, where they need extra help.
SKILVIIL - Skills for Visually Impaired for Independent Living - is a series of gamified apps for students to practice and improve crtical skills including Assistive Technology, Orientation and Mobility and Braille Literacy.
LifeLaunch Virtual Adventures help students with a disability improve their independent living skills and soft skills where they can experience the natural outcomes of their real-world decisions in a safe, virtual environment.
Kids Like Me Bookshelf is an AI-assisted ghostwriting system to enable people with a disability to craft a role model story that's meaningful to a student with the same disability.