REU Site: Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities

这个本科生研究体验网站将吸引不同的本科生参与为残疾人开发辅助技术的研究体验，以通过发明和创造解决社会公益事业。研究主题包括用于通信、监控和跟踪、社交互动、辅助机器人、视觉和助听器以及智能护理的创新应用、工具和系统。参与者将获得有针对性的领导力、道德、沟通、学术写作技能、动手培训和基于学习小组的协作方面的经验。该计划将通过向由多名教师和研究生指导的代表不足的群体提供研究机会，扩大对计算机的参与。该计划将有助于提高学生在研究型计算方面的数量、质量和公平性，特别是女性和少数族裔。它还将扩大他们进行基础研究的兴趣和能力，磨练他们的专业技能，并为他们的职业道路和研究生院做好准备。该研究计划将通过学术活动提供宝贵的本科生经验，促进最先进的人工智能、机器学习、机器人、传感器和人机界面。这些活动将协同作用地融入创新和发现，具有智力深度和现实世界影响。与会者将在各种背景下探索新兴技术，例如为残疾人和服务提供者提供新的通信手段、机器辅助数据收集以及提供护理和福祉手段，同时探索跨学科融合研究的新领域。他们将沉浸在由学生、教授和应用领域专家组成的多学科研究社区，通过协作框架寻求基本的发现和创新。学生将获得出版和传播技能，包括技术写作、口头陈述、文献综述和撰写论文。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates site will engage a diverse cohort of undergraduate students in a research experience with the development of assistive technologies for people with disabilities to address socially good causes through invention and creation. The research themes include innovative applications, tools, and systems for communication, monitoring and tracking, social interactions, assistive robots, visual and hearing aids, and smart care. Participants will receive purposeful experience in leadership, ethics, communication, academic writing skills, hands-on training, and learning group-based collaboration. The program will broaden participation in computing by providing research opportunities to underrepresented groups mentored by multiple faculty and graduate students. The program will help enhance students' numbers, quality, and equity in research-oriented computing, especially females and minorities. It will also expand their interest and ability to conduct basic research, hone their professional skills, and prepare them for career paths and graduate school. The research program will provide a valuable undergraduate experience through scholarly activities, advancing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, sensors, and human-computer interfaces. The activities will be synergistically engrained in innovation and discovery, with intellectual depth and real-world impact. Participants will explore emerging technologies in contexts such as new means of communication for persons with disabilities and service providers, machine-assisted data collection, and providing means for care and wellbeing while exploring new frontiers in convergent research across disciplines. They will be immersed in a multi-disciplinary research community of students, professors, and application domain experts for pursuing essential discovery and innovation through a collaborative framework. Students will acquire publication and dissemination skills, including technical writing, oral presentation, literature review, and authoring papers.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.