Travel: Improving the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Upper-Limb Prosthesis Control: Establishing user-centric guidelines for engineering innovation

该奖项将为美国与会者参加2023年IEEE世界Haptics大会提供部分旅行支持，该大会将于2023年7月10日至13日在荷兰代尔夫特举行。在可用性、可靠性和成本方面，上肢假体的实际情况和假体使用者的需求之间存在着鸿沟。为了帮助弥合这一鸿沟，美国与会者将在2023年IEEE世界触觉会议上组织一个名为“提高上肢假体控制中触觉反馈的效用：建立以用户为中心的工程创新指南”的研讨会，该会议是交流与触觉(基于触摸)技术相关的想法和创新的主要国际场所。这次研讨会将把假体使用者和假体研究人员聚集在一起，为未来的研究制定指导方针。与会者将听取该领域领先研究人员和实际假肢使用者的意见，并将有机会参与有助于塑造假体技术未来的对话。这种旅行支持的目标是扩大参加这次研讨会的现有研究人员之外，包括假肢用户和学生研究人员，他们可能没有研究资金来支持自己的旅行。美国与会者包括5名假肢使用者、3名假肢研究人员、10名学生研究人员和4名研讨会组织者。这次研讨会的成果将是一套指导原则，可供社区研究人员在设计未来用于假肢的触觉反馈技术时使用。此外，这些指南将被用来创建一套核心研究结果，研究人员可以使用这些结果来标准化未来的研究，临床医生和假体使用者可以使用这些结果来比较和解释未来的研究进展。将优先考虑向妇女和少数族裔学生发放学生旅费津贴。研讨会的结果将通过研讨会网站传播，https://sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.edu/2023-whc-workshop/home.This奖反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 award will provide partial travel support for U.S. participants to attend the 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference, which will take place July 10-13, 2023, in Delft, The Netherlands. There is a divide between the reality of upper limb prostheses and the needs of prosthesis users, in terms of usability, reliability and cost. To help bridge this divide, the U.S. participants are organizing a workshop on “Improving the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Upper-Limb Prosthesis Control: Establishing User-Centric Guidelines for Engineering Innovation” at the 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference, a premier international venue for exchanging ideas and innovations related to haptic (touch-based) technology. This workshop will bring together prosthesis users and prosthesis researchers to create guidelines for future research. Attendees will hear from leading researchers in the field, and actual prosthesis users, and will have an opportunity to engage in conversations that help shape the future of prosthesis technology. The goal of this travel support is to broaden participation in this workshop beyond established researchers, to include both prosthesis users and student researchers who may not have the research funds to support their own travel. The U.S. attendees include five prosthesis users, three prosthesis researchers, ten student researchers, and four workshop organizers. The outcome of this workshop will be a set of guiding principles that can be used by researchers in the community when designing future haptic feedback technologies for prosthesis use. In addition, these guidelines will be used to create a core set of study outcomes that can be used by researchers to standardize future research, and by clinicians and prosthesis users to compare and interpret future research advances. Priority consideration for student travel grants will be given to women and minority students. Workshop outcomes will be disseminated through the workshop website https://sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.edu/2023-whc-workshop/home.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.