David L. Jaffe, MS
Lathrop Library, Classroom 282
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:50pm

Tuesday, March 12th

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. Elevator Pitch - Elevator Button Pusher Project
2. Buckle Up - Service Dog Harness Buckle Project
3. Travola - Danny’s Lap Tray Project
4. Big Three - Danny’s Pick-up Project
5. Kitty Kat Meow - Zirpolo Hide-Away Lap Tray Project
6. Tray-lblazers - Tray for Tony Project
7. Abby's Assistants - Grocery Shopping with Abby Project
8. Magical Bridge Team - Magical Bridge Playground Project: Caterpillar
9. Mean Machine - Danny's Wheelchair Cup & Phone Holder Project

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

0. Introduction of team, its members, and project
1. Background: statement of problem, its magnitude, and user population
2. Interactions with project suggestors and individuals who would benefit from a solution
3. Identification and determination of need
4. Research of existing products and discussion of their limitations
5. Description and visualization of design concepts considered and prototypes built
6. Discussion of selected design: technical and engineering elements, estimated cost, user acceptance functionality, performance, safety considerations, tradeoffs, etc.
7. Visualization of final prototype: photographs and/or video of operation with a user
8. 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
• Content: (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 - 939 Kb pdf file

Photos - 883 Kb pdf file

Links:

Updated 03/13/2019