Human-Machine Systems for Physical Rehabilitation

物理康复人机系统

• 批准号: 2152135
• 负责人: Eric Schearer
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: Cleveland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2152135&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Human; Machine; Systems; Physical; Rehabilitation

There is a compelling national need for advanced research to develop technology for people with disabilities. Some of the most vexing challenges include rehabilitating sensorimotor coordination to prevent falls, restoring motor function after paralysis, and regenerating muscle after traumatic injuries. Despite the development of impressive devices, people with disabilities abandon assistive technologies at alarmingly high rates largely because their perspectives are not included in the development process. Assistive technology is increasingly more intertwined in a web of human, ethical, legal, psychological, and social factors. Meanwhile, disability groups seek to participate in the research process to shed light on these issues. Against this background, graduate engineering education to date has been largely isolated from the complexity of disabled persons’ experiences, from rehabilitation therapy education, and from fields examining the larger impacts of disability and technology in the community. Moreover, traditional discipline-specific training inhibits transdisciplinary thinking that can lead to versatile rehabilitative technologies. To address these shortcomings in graduate education, this NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) project will create a graduate traineeship program that equips students to work on transdisciplinary research teams that successfully partner with people with disabilities to develop rehabilitation and assistive technologies. The training program will: develop courses to teach skills for spanning perspectives in human-machine systems, create a community that immerses students in multiple facets of disability, and test a model that promotes research-inspired collaborative teaching across disciplines. The significance of the program is that it will produce a traineeship model for engineers, psychologists, and urban experts to collaborate with therapy professionals and the disability community to deliver technology for the most complex rehabilitation challenges that people with disabilities use in their daily lives. The project anticipates training 20 PhD and 10 MS students, including 15 funded trainees, from Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Exercise Science, Experimental Psychology, and Urban Studies. Trainees will participate on three transdisciplinary teams that will include people with lived disability experience according to the Integrated Knowledge Translation Principles for teaming with the disability community. Three objectives guide the project team's work. First is to create physical human-machine interaction technologies that improve individuals’ abilities to access, engage with, and manipulate their physical, social, and sensory environments. Second is to understand human processing and communication and develop artificial processing and communication to allow people with limited sensorimotor function to engage in meaningful activities (e.g., self-feeding, grooming, cooking) in realistic environments. Third is to develop therapeutic agents that are engineered to treat organ defects at a cellular and tissue level. This novel, human-centered traineeship model will include users in design, development, and implementation of technologies, while expanding students’ mindsets and skills to work interactively towards these goals.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

国家迫切需要进行先进的研究，为残疾人开发技术。一些最令人烦恼的挑战包括恢复感觉运动协调以防止福尔斯，恢复瘫痪后的运动功能，以及在创伤后再生肌肉。尽管有令人印象深刻的设备的发展，残疾人放弃辅助技术的比例高得惊人，主要是因为他们的观点没有被纳入开发过程。辅助技术越来越多地交织在一个人类、伦理、法律的、心理和社会因素的网络中。与此同时，残疾人团体寻求参与研究过程，以阐明这些问题。在这种背景下，研究生工程教育迄今已在很大程度上孤立于残疾人的经验的复杂性，从康复治疗教育，并从检查残疾和技术在社会上的更大影响的领域。此外，传统的针对特定学科的培训抑制了跨学科思维，而跨学科思维可以导致多功能的康复技术。为了解决研究生教育中的这些缺点，NSF研究培训（NRT）项目将创建一个研究生培训计划，使学生能够在跨学科研究团队中工作，成功地与残疾人合作开发康复和辅助技术。培训方案将：开发课程，教授跨越人机系统视角的技能，创建一个让学生沉浸在残疾的多个方面的社区，并测试一个促进跨学科研究启发式协作教学的模型。该计划的重要性在于，它将为工程师，心理学家和城市专家提供一个培训模型，与治疗专业人员和残疾社区合作，为残疾人在日常生活中使用的最复杂的康复挑战提供技术。该项目预计将培训20名博士和10名硕士学生，其中包括15名受资助的学员，来自机械工程，电气工程，生物医学工程，计算机科学，运动科学，实验心理学和城市研究。 受训人员将参加三个跨学科小组，其中包括根据综合知识翻译原则与残疾社区合作的残疾人生活经验。三个目标指导项目小组的工作。首先是创建物理人机交互技术，提高个人访问，参与和操纵其物理，社会和感官环境的能力。其次是理解人类的处理和交流，发展人工处理和交流，让感觉运动功能有限的人从事有意义的活动（例如，自我喂食、梳理、烹饪）。第三是开发经工程改造以在细胞和组织水平上治疗器官缺陷的治疗剂。这种新颖的、以人为本的培训模式将包括设计、开发和实施技术的用户，同时扩展学生的思维方式和技能，以互动方式实现这些目标。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求相一致的综合培训模式，在高优先级的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。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。