Winter Quarter 2017

          
Perspectives in Assistive Technology
ENGR110/210

          

David L. Jaffe, MS
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:50pm
Thornton Center Classroom 110

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Tuesday, March 14th

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Student Team Project Final Presentations

This quarter nine student teams have been addressing problems experienced by individuals with disabilities or older adults and have been working to research, brainstorm, design, fabricate, and test a prototype device or software to meet the identified problem. Each project team will give a formal presentation detailing their project activities. Please note that this was a seven-week team project effort and the students' prototypes are not intended to represent commercial offerings.

Presentation order:

  1. Ranger Stick - Pickup Sticks Project
  2. All of the Lights - Magical Bridge Playground Project
  3. Nearpod X - Life Skills Project
  4. RefleX - Orthotic Rebound Shock Project
  5. Robotikids - Art Tools Project
  6. Le Joy Masters - Magical Bridge Playground Project
  7. Plug & Play - Plugs for Molly Project
  8. Sock It to Me! - Add-a-sock Project
  9. Dancing Our Way to Health - Dance Therapy Project

Each student team will give their final project presentation which should include the following elements:

  1. Introduction of team, its members, and project
  2. Background: statement of problem, its magnitude, and user population
  3. Interactions with project suggestors and individuals who would benefit from a solution
  4. Identification and determination of need
  5. Research of existing products and discussion of their limitations
  6. Description and visualization of design concepts considered and prototypes built
  7. Discussion of selected design: technical and engineering elements, estimated cost, user acceptance functionality, performance, safety considerations, tradeoffs, etc.
  8. Visualization of final prototype: photographs and/or video of operation with a user
  9. Plans for the future: improvements and challenges for continuing the project

Judge the overall quality of the presentation, design process, prototyped concepts using the following metrics.

  • Delivery: (How the team presented) - professionalism, enthusiasm, conviction, confidence, energy, volume
  • Process: (How the team addressed the problem) - problem information, background research, design concepts brainstormed & prototyped, testing & evaluation
  • Presentation: (What the team presented) - clarity, organization, and completeness of the information presented
  • Design: (What the team produced) - creativity, originality, functionality of the design concept and the likelihood it will meet the user's needs
  • Overall: (Overall score) - combined impression of presentation and project

Individuals evaluating the team project presentations will have the opportunity to provide their comments:

  • What did the team learn, what are your LIKES and WISHES about what they did, and what are your recommendations, suggestions, and advice for the team?
  • Please provide comments and suggestions about the course, projects, and presentation process.


Presentation Material:
Pre-presentation slides - 859 Kb pdf file
Pre-presentation video - 7:49
Photos - 1.38 Mb pdf file
Arne's photos - 880 Kb pdf file
Video - 1:14:57
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Updated 07/17/2017

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