Enabling Technologies Laboratory: Student Design Program

使能技术实验室（ETL）学生设计项目为韦恩州立大学的本科工程专业学生提供了设计和创建原型、定制设计设备、软件和服务的机会，以帮助残疾人。学生进行设计活动的环境不仅补充和整合了他们之前的学术经验，而且自然地将研究，教育和社区服务融为一体。学生设计项目与ETL关于提高人类身体和认知能力的技术影响和有效性的研究相协调，重点是残疾人的需求。无障碍和通用的设计原则是这些研究和设计活动的关键要素。基于与ETL的讨论？S社区客户的主要需求和关注领域涉及设计支持工作和职业培训和教育。ETL的两个客户正致力于帮助残疾人建立自己的企业的微型企业。残疾人微型企业是ETL学生设计项目的一个新的应用领域。虽然下一阶段将主要针对工作活动，但这种重点并不排除其他应用领域；然而，由于工作和职业方面的考虑，本提案提出的大多数项目想法都属于这些领域。我们的社区合作伙伴提出了一长串的项目清单。这些项目包括：分拣和包装系统，切换可访问的机电设备，例如，用于定制造纸的压力机和热封系统；智能装置和工作站，其中传感器为防错、质量控制和提示装配、分类和包装工作提供反馈；以及为有认知障碍的人提供的认知辅助。这些认知辅助将使用RFID标签系统进行商业洗衣分类任务、库存和库存控制工作，以及利用顺序任务进行职业前培训的操作。RFID标签系统和智能传感器系统还将利用无线通信技术为有认知障碍的工人创造支持性的工作环境，例如，一个环境将支持社区工作场所的一组有认知障碍的清洁工。除了ETL学生获得的研究经验外，ETL学生还提供了重要的社区服务，向残疾人提供所需的技术，同时教育我们的社区合作伙伴，让他们了解法律规定的可及性以及使能和辅助技术改变人们的力量。年代的生活。

0752709ErlandsonThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) Student Design Program provides Wayne State University's undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to design and create prototypes, custom designed devices, software and services to aid persons with disabilities. Students conduct their design activities in an environment that not only complements and integrates their previous academic experiences, but also naturally integrates research, education, and community service. The student design projects are coordinated with ETL research on the impact and effectiveness of technologies that enhance human performance, both physically and cognitively, with an emphasis on the needs of individuals with disabilities. Accessible and universal design principles are key elements in these research and design activities. Based on discussions with ETL?s community clients, the major areas of need and concern deal with design to support work and vocational training and education. Two ETL clients are working on micro-enterprises focused on helping individuals with disabilities set up their own businesses. Micro-enterprise for individuals with disabilities is a new area of application for the ETL student design program. While this next period will primarily target work activities, such a focus will not preclude other application areas; however, because of the work and vocational concerns, most of the project ideas presented for this proposal fall within these areas. Our community partners have presented a long list of projects. These projects include: sorting and packaging systems, switch accessible mechatronic devices, e.g., a press for custom paper making, and a heat sealing system; smart fixtures and workstations wherein sensors provide feedback for error-proofing, quality control, and prompting for assembly, sorting, and packaging jobs; and cognitive aids for individuals with cognitive disabilities. These cognitive aids will use RFID tag systems for commercial laundry sorting tasks, stocking and inventory control jobs, and manipulatives for pre-vocational training utilizing sequential tasks. The RFID tag systems and smart sensor systems will also make use of wireless communication technology to create supportive work environments for workers with cognitive disabilities, for example, an environment that will support a team of janitorial workers with cognitive disabilities at a community worksite. In addition to the research experience the ETL students receive, the ETL students provide a significant community service by delivering needed technology to people with disabilities while concurrently educating our community partners about the laws which mandate accessibility and the power of enabling and assistive technology to change people?s lives.