REU Site: Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities

本研究经验的本科生网站将从事本科生的研究经验与辅助技术的发展，为残疾人通过发明和创造，以解决社会公益事业的多元化队列。研究主题包括创新的应用程序，工具和通信系统，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。参与者将在领导力，道德，沟通，学术写作技巧，实践培训和学习小组合作方面获得有意义的经验。该计划将扩大参与计算提供研究机会，以代表性不足的群体由多个教师和研究生指导。该计划将有助于提高学生的数量，质量和公平的研究为导向的计算，特别是女性和少数民族。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，推进最先进的人工智能，机器学习，机器人技术，传感器和人机界面。这些活动将与创新和发现密切相关，具有知识深度和现实世界的影响。与会者将探索新兴技术的背景下，如新的通信手段，为残疾人和服务提供者，机器辅助数据收集，并提供照顾和福祉的手段，同时探索跨学科融合研究的新领域。他们将沉浸在一个由学生，教授和应用领域专家组成的多学科研究社区中，通过协作框架追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，并被认为是值得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的支持。

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.