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and Instructions for Speakers
Speakers,
Thank you once again for your willingness to participate
in the Stanford Course: Perspectives in Assistive Technology.
Information needed: If you haven't done so
already, please provide me with the following information for the class website
and announcements:
- Title of your talk
- One paragraph description of your talk
- One paragraph biosketch
- Contact information that you would like to give
out
- A digital photograph (head shot)
Class location: The class will be held in the
Forum Room (Room 124) on the ground level of Meyer
Library. It is in one corner of the building, facing the clock tower on
one side and Hoover Tower on the other.
Parking information:
- Parking in Stanford lots does not require a permit after
4pm.
- Your best chance of finding a parking space is in the
lot behind Tressider Union.
- Refer to the
online campus
map for the location of other parking lots.
- Please refer to a map to find you way from your car to
the classroom.
Class time:
- Please plan to arrive at the classroom by 4pm for
setup.
- Please consider the time needed to navigate around
campus and to find a parking space.
- Class begins promptly at 4:15pm.
- The lecture ends at approximately 5:05pm.
- Please leave some time at the end of your presentation
for questions and discussion.
Powerpoint presentation options: An LCD projector
is available.
- Bring your computer (and the VGA adapter if you have a
Mac laptop) with your presentation, or
- Email me your Powerpoint presentation so I can put it on
my computer
Audience:
- The audience will be made up of engineering students
(mostly mechanical engineering) and individuals from the greater Stanford
community (120 maximum).
- There may be several students who arrive late or have to
leave early due to other class committments.
Student interest:
- Learning about rehabilitation and assistive
technology,
- Obtaining information that can help them pursue a
successful assistive technology student project for this class (and continuing
into next quarter), and
- Understanding how their Stanford education in
engineering can be used to benefit people with disabilities.
- Please do not overwhelm the students with technical
details. One message to communicate is they can successfully pursue an
assistive technology project.
Handout material: Please provide me with a soft
copy of any handout material before your presentation if you would like me to
make copies of them. Send me your Powerpoint slides after your talk for posting
on the class website.
Presentation content suggestions: Please consider
including the following items (if appropriate) in your presentation:
- Introduce yourself, briefly provide some career-oriented
context: - your educational and employment backgrounds
- Who do you work for presently?
- What are you doing now?
- What kinds of projects are you working on?
- Who do you work with - professionals in what
fields?
- What tools and design processes do you use to succeed in
your job?
- How are you funded?
- What are some unmet challenges in your specific field of
work?
- What is your perspective on your work and your
professional field as it relates to assistive technology and
rehabilitation?
- How does your work impact people with disabilities or
the fields of assistive technology and rehabilitation?
- Provide at least one good example of your work
(hopefully it will include some mechanical engineering components).
- Include comments on how you address ethical issues such
as safety and privacy and how you interact with people with
disabilities.
- Please keep your presentation short to allow for
questions and discussion.
Class website:
Thank you again
- Dave Jaffe
- 650/892-4464 cell
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