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

该奖项将为参加将于2023年7月10日至13日在荷兰代尔夫特举行的2023年IEEE世界触觉大会的美国参与者提供部分旅费支持。在可用性、可靠性和成本方面，上肢假肢的实际情况与假肢使用者的需求之间存在差距。为了帮助弥合这一鸿沟，美国参与者正在2023年IEEE世界触觉会议上组织一个关于“提高上肢假肢控制中触觉反馈的实用性：建立以用户为中心的工程创新指南”的研讨会，这是一个交流与触觉（基于触摸的）技术相关的想法和创新的主要国际场所。本次研讨会将把义肢使用者和义肢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义肢使用者的意见，并有机会参与有助于塑造义肢技术未来的对话。这次旅行支持的目标是扩大研讨会的参与范围，使其超越现有的研究人员，包括假体使用者和可能没有研究资金支持自己旅行的学生研究人员。美国与会者包括5名义肢使用者、3名义肢研究人员、10名学生研究人员和4名研讨会组织者。本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假肢使用的触觉反馈技术时使用。此外，这些指南将用于创建一组核心研究结果，研究人员可以使用这些结果来标准化未来的研究，临床医生和假体用户可以使用这些结果来比较和解释未来的研究进展。妇女和少数民族学生将优先考虑获得学生旅费补助金。研讨会成果将通过研讨会网站https://sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.edu/2023-whc-workshop/home.This发布。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.