Kickstarting Advances in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies

概述：将举办一个关于残疾人的辅助和康复技术主题的虚拟讲习班。讲习班的主要目的是了解这些技术的研究、开发和实践的现状，以及它们如何促进残疾人更好和更健康的生活。在参与者洞察和专业知识的基础上，研讨会参与者将确定受用户启发的基于融合研究的挑战和机会。他们将相互接触，回答与这一情况有关的几个问题，并制定一个框架，以确定准备加速汇聚的调查和倡议。在扎根的理论研究的启发下，综合的知识和确定的类别将反馈给参与者，供进一步探索和提炼。智力价值：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。这将通过将来自学术界、工业界、其他机构、非营利组织和用户本身的不同利益相关者群体聚集在一起来实现。为了给讲习班提供一个连贯的结构，整个研究领域被分解为干预类型、各种残疾或残疾人群以及技术干预的推动者。将邀请来自这些课程的参与者和观点。在将专业人员和通常不会接触到的人聚集在一起时，目的是比较和对比不同的视角，以达成对该领域的全面了解，并回答以下问题：什么倡议或创新将最有效地满足不同目标人群最有影响力的需求？这些计划是否能够在3-4年内实现概念验证交付？这些答案应确定一些需要趋同的明确主题，并为加快交付一些具体成果做好准备。更广泛的影响：除了可能促成新的研究合作外，这项工作还将以一些非常独特的伙伴关系将研究人员、从业者、非营利组织和行业联系起来。其次，鉴于残疾或与伤害相关的损伤在人口中的普遍存在，调查的主题涉及到大多数社会成员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.