Freedom Machines

自由机器

• 批准号: 0003446
• 负责人: Richard Cox
• 金额: $ 55.49万
• 依托单位: Film Arts Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0003446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Freedom; Machines

Freedom Machines is a one-hour special for public television which will highlight the information about the newest technological advances which support over 54 million Americans with disabilities. Through personal narratives, high-impact storytelling, and a comprehensive public education and outreach campaign, the show will inform viewers about assistive technology (AT) being used, and how it is adapted and designed by people with disabilities. The individuals to be profiled, many of them leaders in science and technological fields, will encourage young people with disabilities to pursue careers in the sciences. Many of the devices and approaches to be featured will also show how valuable these technologies are for the able bodied, general public.The sixty-minute documentary is structured around the themes of Pioneers, Partners and Prophets in order to examine the evolving relationship between technology and the disabled, profile emerging technologies and explore the larger societal implications of this growing phenomenon. A companion website and extensive outreach program will continue the informative material, support and create networks, and promote linkages between viewers, either abled or disabled, and the technology that might benefit them. Technological changes have always been influenced by people with needs beyond the ordinary. This dynamic is even more relevant in today's information age. Freedom Machines will dramatically demonstrate that designing a world of inclusion benefits everyone.

Freedom Machines 是一小时的公共电视特别节目，将重点介绍支持超过 5400 万美国残疾人的最新技术进步的信息。 通过个人叙述、高影响力的故事讲述以及全面的公共教育和宣传活动，该节目将向观众介绍正在使用的辅助技术 (AT)，以及残疾人如何调整和设计它。 被介绍的个人，其中许多是科学和技术领域的领导者，将鼓励残疾年轻人追求科学事业。 许多要展示的设备和方法也将展示这些技术对于身体健全的普通大众来说有多么有价值。这部六十分钟的纪录片围绕先驱者、合作伙伴和先知的主题构建，旨在审视技术与残疾人之间不断变化的关系，概述新兴技术并探索这种日益增长的现象的更大社会影响。 配套网站和广泛的外展计划将继续提供信息材料，支持和创建网络，并促进残疾或残疾人观众与可能使他们受益的技术之间的联系。 技术变革总是受到具有超常需求的人们的影响。 这种动态在当今的信息时代更加重要。 自由机器将戏剧性地展示设计一个包容性的世界对每个人都有好处。