Welcome to this edition of Perspectives, the e-newsletter of the
Stanford course, Perspectives in Assistive
Technology.
What
is the course? - Perspectives in Assistive Technology is a
Winter Quarter course at Stanford that explores issues surrounding the design,
development, and use of assistive technology benefitting people with
disabilities and seniors. More information can be found on the course
website.
Invitation to attend - You are invited to attend
all class lectures. They will be held in the
Thornton Center - Classroom 110 on Tuesday
and Thursday afternoons at 4:15 to 5:30pm and are free and open to the
public.
Next class session - Tuesday, March 12th at
4:15pm:
Final Student Team
Project Presentations
Please plan to attend the
final student team project presentations. Student teams have chosen a problem
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 an identified need.
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Team
ProApps
Social Development
Program for Students with Autism
Beth
Shields |
Kevin
McCabe |
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Project:
Explore the development of educational gaming applications that will help to
create an engaging method for students to build appropriate social emotional
recognition through repetitive behavioral modeling. |
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Team
Sane Fix
Monkey Bar
Prosthetic Project
Sane
Cassidy |
Tal
Fix |
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Project:
Explore designs for a device for a child with a missing hand or arm that would
allow him/her to play on the monkey bars. |
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Touch
of a Button!
Dressing
Aids
Kelly
Nguyen |
Raymond
Liou |
Nathaniel
Wynn |
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Project:
Explore designs for anyone with an upper extremity impairment to help them
button their pants and shirt (including sleeves). |
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Team
Flatland
Flat House
Project
Will
Tucker |
Matt
Rios |
Tommy
Fraychineaud |
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Project:
Explore and design a solution that can be retrofitted to current housing for
the outdoor step problem (entering and leaving a house), the indoor one step up
or down on a single floor, and the multi-step problem of
stairs. |
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Team
Xavier
Neurosky
Project
Andrew
Logan |
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Project:
Explore an application for a person with a disability using the NeuroSky
brain-computer interface product. |
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Team
Oh Inhalers / MyInhaler
Inhaler Appearance Project
Kezia
Alfred |
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Project:
Explore designs for inhalers that would improve their appearance, including
making them more discreet. |
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Team
Too Clean
Wheelchair Wheel
Washer
Sean
Pacheco |
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Project:
Explore designs to remove dirt from the wheels of a powered or manual
wheelchair or walker. |
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The
Pedphiles
Sock Donning
Aid
Anna
Evans |
Richard
Lui |
Wade
Hatton |
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Project:
Explore a new design for a sock donning aid that can be used with one
hand. |
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