Kickstarting Advances in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies

概述：将举办一个关于残疾人辅助和康复技术的虚拟研讨会。研讨会的主要目标是了解这些技术的研究、开发和实践的现有情况，以及它们如何促进残疾人或残疾人更好、更健康的生活。基于与会者的见解和专业知识，研讨会与会者将确定受用户启发的基于融合的研究的挑战和机遇。他们将相互接触，回答有关这一情况的几个相关问题，并制定一个框架，以确定可加速趋同的调查和举措。在扎根理论研究的启发下，综合的知识和确定的类别将反馈给参与者，供进一步探索和完善。学术价值：研讨会旨在确定与辅助和康复技术相关的候选研究和翻译差距。这将通过汇集来自学术界、工业界、其他机构、非营利组织和用户本身的各种利益攸关方来实现。为了使讲习班有一个连贯的结构，整个研究领域被分解为干预类型、各种残疾或缺陷人口以及技术干预的推动因素。将邀请来自这些课程的参与者和观点。在汇集专业人士和通常不会混合的人时，目的是比较和对比不同的观点，以全面了解该领域并回答问题：什么举措或创新将最有效地解决各种目标人群最具影响力的需求。这些举措是否能够在3-4年内产生概念验证交付成果？这些答案应确定一些需要融合的明确主题，并为加速交付一些具体成果做好准备。 更广泛的影响：除了潜在的种子新的研究合作，这项工作将连接研究人员，从业者，非营利组织和行业在一些非常独特的伙伴关系。其次，由于残疾或伤害相关障碍在人口中的普遍存在，调查主题涉及社会大多数成员。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。

Overview: A virtual workshop on the topic of assistive and rehabilitative technologies for persons with disabilities or impairments will be conducted The main objective of the workshop is to understand the existing landscape of research, development, and practice for these technologies and how they promote better and healthier living for persons with disabilities or impairments. Building on participant insights and expertise, the challenges and opportunities for convergence based research that’s inspired by users will be identified by workshop participants. They will engage with each other to answer several relevant questions regarding this landscape and to develop a framework for identifying investigations and initiatives ready for convergent acceleration. Inspired by grounded theory studies, the synthesized knowledge and identified categories will be fed back to the participants for further exploration and refinement. Intellectual Merit: The workshop aims to identify candidate research and translational gaps related to assistive and rehabilitative technologies. This will be made possible by bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders from academia, industry, other agencies, nonprofits and the users themselves. To provide a coherent structure to the workshop , the overall research area has been decomposed into the intervention type, the various populations with disabilities or impairments, and the enablers of the technological interventions. Participants and perspectives from across these classes will be invited. In bringing together professionals and people who would not normally comingle, the intent is to compare and contrast the different perspective to arrive at a holistic understanding of the field and answer the questions: What initiatives or innovations would most effectively address the most impactful needs of the various target populations.? Are these initiatives capable of resulting in a proof-of-concept deliverable within a 3-4 year period? These answers should identify some clear themes that need convergence and are ready for an accelerated delivery of some tangible outcomes. Broader Impacts: Beside the potential to seed new research collaborations, the work will connect researchers, practitioners, nonprofits and industry in some very unique partnerships. Secondly, the topic of investigation is one that touches on most members of society given the prevalence of disabilities or injury-related impairments within the population.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.