Physical disabilities : augmentative and alternative communication devices for persons with physical disabilities

题为“肢体残疾：为肢体残疾人提供补充和替代通讯设备”的研究小组由两个研究小组组成。一项是关于“肢体残障人士在使用辅助和替代通信设备方面的身体特征”，另一项是关于“开发一种由拉普拉斯肌电活动控制的无线字符输入接口”。该两个小组的成员分别为10人和2人，两个小组正互相合作，协助肢体残疾人士参与研究计划；在本财政年度，两个小组举行了三次联席会议，以及为严重肢体残疾人士提供辅助技术的工程师、技术员、治疗师、供应商和制造商举行的免费讨论会议，并举行了为期两天的自由讨论会议，汇报该研究小组的研究成果，并鼓励肢体残疾人士实际应用研究成果。优先领域科学研究补助金的两名评估者和其他18名成员，包括辅助技术方面的工程师、技术员、治疗师、供应商和制造商参加了这次自由讨论会议。第一天展示了该课题组的研究成果，展示了该课题组开发的实际设备，第二天在评估者和其他成员发表评论后讨论了利用该课题组的研究成果。

The research group on "Physical disabilities: augmentative and alternative communication devices for persons with physical disabilities" consists of two research groups. One is that on "Physical characteristics of persons with physical disabilities regarding the use of augmentative and alternative communication devices" and the other is that on "Development of a wireless character-input interface controlled by Laplacian electromyographic activity". The members of those groups are 10 and 2, respectively.These two groups are collaborating with each other in helping the persons with physical disabilities to participate research projects; they have had three joint meeting of these two groups and free discussion meeting for engineers, technologists, therapists, suppliers and manufacturers in assistive technology for the persons with severe physical disabilities in this fiscal year.The free discussion meeting was held for two days to report the research results of this research group and to promote actual use of the research results for the persons with physical disabilities. Two evaluators of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas and eighteen other members including engineers, technologists, therapists, suppliers and manufacturers in assistive technology participated in this free discussion meeting. On the first day, the research results of this research group were presented with demonstrations of actual devices developed in this research group, and on the second day the discussion to utilize research results of this research group after the presentation of comments by evaluators and other members.