Kickstarting Advances in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies

推动辅助和康复技术的进步

• 批准号: 2125017
• 负责人: Patricio Vela
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2021-04-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2125017&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Kickstarting; Advances; Assistive; Rehabilitative; Technologies

Overview: A virtual workshop on the topic of assistive and rehabilitative technologies for persons with disabilities or impairments will be conducted The main objective of the workshop is to understand the existing landscape of research, development, and practice for these technologies and how they promote better and healthier living for persons with disabilities or impairments. Building on participant insights and expertise, the challenges and opportunities for convergence based research that’s inspired by users will be identified by workshop participants. They will engage with each other to answer several relevant questions regarding this landscape and to develop a framework for identifying investigations and initiatives ready for convergent acceleration. Inspired by grounded theory studies, the synthesized knowledge and identified categories will be fed back to the participants for further exploration and refinement. Intellectual Merit: The workshop aims to identify candidate research and translational gaps related to assistive and rehabilitative technologies. This will be made possible by bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders from academia, industry, other agencies, nonprofits and the users themselves. To provide a coherent structure to the workshop , the overall research area has been decomposed into the intervention type, the various populations with disabilities or impairments, and the enablers of the technological interventions. Participants and perspectives from across these classes will be invited. In bringing together professionals and people who would not normally comingle, the intent is to compare and contrast the different perspective to arrive at a holistic understanding of the field and answer the questions: What initiatives or innovations would most effectively address the most impactful needs of the various target populations.? Are these initiatives capable of resulting in a proof-of-concept deliverable within a 3-4 year period? These answers should identify some clear themes that need convergence and are ready for an accelerated delivery of some tangible outcomes. Broader Impacts: Beside the potential to seed new research collaborations, the work will connect researchers, practitioners, nonprofits and industry in some very unique partnerships. Secondly, the topic of investigation is one that touches on most members of society given the prevalence of disabilities or injury-related impairments within the population.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.

概述：将举办关于残疾人或残障人士辅助和康复技术主题的虚拟研讨会。研讨会的主要目标是了解这些技术的研究、开发和实践的现有情况，以及它们如何促进残疾人或残障人士更好、更健康的生活。基于参与者的见解和专业知识，研讨会参与者将确定受用户启发的基于融合的研究的挑战和机遇。他们将相互接触，回答有关这一领域的几个相关问题，并制定一个框架，以确定为聚合加速做好准备的调查和举措。受扎根理论研究的启发，综合的知识和确定的类别将反馈给参与者进行进一步的探索和完善。智力优势：研讨会旨在确定与辅助和康复技术相关的候选人研究和转化差距。这将通过将来自学术界、工业界、其他机构、非营利组织和用户本身的不同利益相关者群体聚集在一起来实现。为了给研讨会提供一个连贯的结构，整个研究领域被分解为干预类型、各种残疾或缺陷人群以及技术干预的推动因素。将邀请来自这些课程的参与者和观点。将专业人士和通常不会聚集的人聚集在一起，目的是比较和对比不同的观点，以全面了解该领域并回答以下问题：哪些举措或创新可以最有效地满足不同目标人群最有影响力的需求。这些举措是否能够在 3-4 年内交付概念验证成果？这些答案应该确定一些需要融合的明确主题，并为加速交付一些切实成果做好准备。 更广泛的影响：除了有可能促成新的研究合作外，这项工作还将通过一些非常独特的合作伙伴关系将研究人员、从业者、非营利组织和行业联系起来。其次，考虑到人口中残疾或伤害相关障碍的普遍存在，调查的主题涉及大多数社会成员。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。