NSF Convergence Accelerator: Accelerating Disability Inclusion in Workplaces through Technology

NSF 融合加速器：通过技术加速残疾人融入工作场所

• 批准号: 2122120
• 负责人: Vinod Namboodiri
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Wichita State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Accelerating; Disability

The labor market participation rate of persons with disabilities (PWD) is significantly lower than persons without disabilities. There are more than one billion PWDs in the world and constitute a source of talent for employment towards the development and offering of products and services. The challenges faced by this population in contributing equally in our society has implications not only to our economies, but also human rights, equality, equity, and diversity. Intellectual Merit: The workshop is innovative in that it is forward-looking (pre-emptive as opposed to reactionary) in creating a research agenda encompassing various emerging and expected developments in technology in conjunction with human factors, and social and behavioral sciences. In addition, by taking a comprehensive and universal design view, it plans to consider all the major disabilities (vision, hearing, cognitive and intellectual, physical and mobility, and combinations of these. The workshop will focus on developing specific assistive technologies to be designed to integrate PWD in future workforce and the associated education and training initiatives that will be required. The project will be informed by participants that span nonprofits serving PWD, employers of PWD, workforce training institutions, national disability inclusion advocates individuals with disabilities, researchers from academia and industry. Broader Impacts:Societal broader impacts include: 1) development of work tools and technologies (and associated tech transfer), that increases the workforce participation and productivity of people with disabilities and the general population; and 2) creation of a model for other similar future efforts (beyond work) to address disability inclusion.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

残疾人的劳动力市场参与率大大低于非残疾人。世界上有10亿多残疾人，他们是开发和提供产品和服务的就业人才来源。这一群体在为我们的社会做出平等贡献方面所面临的挑战不仅影响到我们的经济，而且影响到人权、平等、公平和多样性。智力优势：该研讨会是创新的，因为它是前瞻性的（先发制人，而不是反动），在创建一个研究议程，包括各种新兴的和预期的技术发展与人为因素，社会和行为科学。此外，通过采取全面和通用的设计观点，它计划考虑所有主要残疾（视力、听力、认知和智力、身体和行动能力以及这些残疾的组合）。该研讨会将侧重于开发特定的辅助技术，旨在将残疾人纳入未来的劳动力和相关的教育和培训举措，这将是必要的。该项目将由参与者提供信息，这些参与者包括为残疾人服务的非营利组织，残疾人雇主，劳动力培训机构，国家残疾人包容倡导者，残疾人，学术界和工业界的研究人员。更广泛的影响：更广泛的社会影响包括：1）工作工具和技术的发展（以及相关的技术转让），提高残疾人和普通民众的劳动力参与率和生产力; 2）为今后类似的工作建立一个模式（超越工作）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。