Giulia Barbareschi is a Research Fellow in Disability and Assistive Technology Innovation at the Keio School of Media Design in Yokohama and the Global Disability Innovation Hub in London. She received her PhD in 2018 from University College London. From 2018 to 2021 she was a research fellow at the UCL Interaction Centre. Her research interest center on the design, development and evaluation of new and existing technologies to empower people with disabilities living in different parts of the world.