Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance

规划补助金：I/UCRC 用于提高人类绩效的辅助技术

• 批准号: 1338930
• 负责人: Fillia Makedon
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338930&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Assistive; Technologies

1338930 University of Texas at Arlington (UTA); Makedon 1338932 University of Texas at Dallas (UTD); Daescu The proposed I/UCRC will focus on assistive technologies to enhance human performance by removing or helping to overcome physical, cognitive or operational domain obstacles and help the human reach his or her potential as much as possible. The research efforts will be anchored by the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) as the lead institution, partnered with the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Assistive technologies (AT) use computer tools and methods to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of people with disabilities, as well as to enhance the productivity of well-bodied people. ATs can improve work efficiency, identify safety risks, shorten the learning curve or worker training through simulations, improve resource allocation, creativity and communication. In healthcare environments, AT tools can enhance sensory and cognitive capabilities, improve training & delivery, enable remote monitoring, delay physical and cognitive decline in chronic conditions, personalize rehabilitation, predict risks for the elderly who live alone, monitor sleep disorders, design better prosthetics or drugs, design better robotic assistants, smart wheelchairs, therapy games and tools to monitor mental/physiological conditions, such as depression, epilepsy, or heart problems. The center will promote the development of AT research infrastructure in industry, research centers and academia. It will help generate new jobs and new types of products and services. The proposed center will help prepare a future generation of competitive employees-scientists, and will provide new opportunities to engage students early, before graduation, in internship or research projects related to the company's interests. Both UTA and UTD, have a strong track record in training students in AT areas and have ongoing research that ranges from better ways to identify software errors, to analysis of facial expressions to identify arthritic pain, or efficient multimodal database searches.

1338930德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校(UTA)；Makedon 1338932德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UTD)；Daescu拟议的I/UCRC将专注于辅助技术，通过消除或帮助克服物理、认知或操作领域的障碍来提高人类的表现，并帮助人类尽可能地发挥他或她的潜力。这项研究工作将由德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校(UTA)作为牵头机构，与德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UTD)合作。辅助技术(AT)使用计算机工具和方法来增加、维持或改善残疾人的功能能力，以及提高健全人的生产力。ATS可以提高工作效率，识别安全风险，缩短学习曲线或通过模拟对工人进行培训，提高资源配置、创造力和沟通能力。在医疗保健环境中，AT工具可以增强感觉和认知能力，改进培训和培训，实现远程监测，延缓慢性病的身体和认知能力下降，个性化康复，预测独居老年人的风险，监测睡眠障碍，设计更好的假肢或药物，设计更好的机器人助手，智能轮椅，治疗游戏和监测精神/生理状况的工具，如抑郁症、癫痫或心脏问题。该中心将促进工业界、研究中心和学术界的AT研究基础设施的发展。它将有助于创造新的就业机会和新类型的产品和服务。拟建的中心将帮助培养下一代有竞争力的员工-科学家，并将提供新的机会，让学生在毕业前及早参与与公司利益相关的实习或研究项目。UTA和UTD在培训AT领域的学生方面都有良好的记录，并进行着从更好地识别软件错误的方法到分析面部表情以识别关节炎疼痛或高效的多模式数据库搜索等一系列持续研究。