Enabling Technologies Laboratory: Student Design Program

使能技术实验室：学生设计项目

• 批准号: 0752709
• 负责人: Robert Erlandson
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enabling; Technologies; Laboratory; Student; Design

0752709ErlandsonThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) Student Design Program provides Wayne State University's undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to design and create prototypes, custom designed devices, software and services to aid persons with disabilities. Students conduct their design activities in an environment that not only complements and integrates their previous academic experiences, but also naturally integrates research, education, and community service. The student design projects are coordinated with ETL research on the impact and effectiveness of technologies that enhance human performance, both physically and cognitively, with an emphasis on the needs of individuals with disabilities. Accessible and universal design principles are key elements in these research and design activities. Based on discussions with ETL?s community clients, the major areas of need and concern deal with design to support work and vocational training and education. Two ETL clients are working on micro-enterprises focused on helping individuals with disabilities set up their own businesses. Micro-enterprise for individuals with disabilities is a new area of application for the ETL student design program. While this next period will primarily target work activities, such a focus will not preclude other application areas; however, because of the work and vocational concerns, most of the project ideas presented for this proposal fall within these areas. Our community partners have presented a long list of projects. These projects include: sorting and packaging systems, switch accessible mechatronic devices, e.g., a press for custom paper making, and a heat sealing system; smart fixtures and workstations wherein sensors provide feedback for error-proofing, quality control, and prompting for assembly, sorting, and packaging jobs; and cognitive aids for individuals with cognitive disabilities. These cognitive aids will use RFID tag systems for commercial laundry sorting tasks, stocking and inventory control jobs, and manipulatives for pre-vocational training utilizing sequential tasks. The RFID tag systems and smart sensor systems will also make use of wireless communication technology to create supportive work environments for workers with cognitive disabilities, for example, an environment that will support a team of janitorial workers with cognitive disabilities at a community worksite. In addition to the research experience the ETL students receive, the ETL students provide a significant community service by delivering needed technology to people with disabilities while concurrently educating our community partners about the laws which mandate accessibility and the power of enabling and assistive technology to change people?s lives.

0752709 Erlandson使能技术实验室（ETL）学生设计计划为韦恩州立大学的本科工程专业学生提供了设计和创建原型、定制设计设备、软件和服务的机会，以帮助残疾人。学生在一个环境中进行设计活动，不仅补充和整合他们以前的学术经验，而且自然地整合了研究，教育和社区服务。学生设计项目与ETL研究协调，研究技术的影响和有效性，增强人体表现，包括身体和认知，重点是残疾人的需求。可解释的和通用的设计原则是这些研究和设计活动的关键要素。基于与ETL的讨论？的社区客户，需要和关注的主要领域处理设计，以支持工作和职业培训和教育。ETL的两个客户正在致力于微型企业，重点是帮助残疾人建立自己的企业。残疾人微型企业是ETL学生设计计划的一个新的应用领域。虽然下一个时期将主要针对工作活动，但这一重点并不排除其他应用领域;然而，由于工作和职业方面的考虑，为本提案提出的大多数项目设想都属于这些领域。我们的社区合作伙伴提出了一长串项目。这些项目包括：分拣和包装系统，开关可访问机电设备，例如，用于定制造纸的印刷机和热封系统;智能固定装置和工作站，其中传感器提供防错、质量控制的反馈，并提示组装、分类和包装工作;以及用于有认知障碍的个人的认知辅助设备。这些认知辅助工具将使用RFID标签系统进行商业洗衣分类任务，库存和库存控制工作，以及利用顺序任务进行职业前培训的操作。RFID标签系统和智能传感器系统还将利用无线通信技术为有认知障碍的工人创造支持性的工作环境，例如，在社区工地为有认知障碍的清洁工人团队提供支持的环境。 除了ETL学生获得的研究经验外，ETL学生还通过向残疾人提供所需的技术来提供重要的社区服务，同时教育我们的社区合作伙伴了解授权无障碍环境的法律以及使能和辅助技术改变人们的力量。s的生活。