The Centre, based at the University of East London, explores the uses of new media technology for the benefit of the learning disability community.
Project @pple was a major ESRC-funded programme exploring the ways in which people with learning difficulties access and use information and communication technologies.
Using observations, interviews and formal usability tests, project researchers built up a multi-layered view of computer use, Internet access and interaction with software among people with learning difficulties.
[3] Project @pple brought together researchers from a number of academic fields with multimedia producers from small and corporate businesses and the UK's leading learning disability charity, MENCAP.
[4] The Rix Centre runs The Big Tree, a website devoted to the sharing of ideas and information regarding multimedia and its potential uses in the learning disability community.