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March 14, 2021    
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Perspectives is the newsletter of the Stanford course,
Perspectives in Assistive Technology.

End-of-term Student Project Presentations

This issue announces Tuesday's student presentations.

Perspectives in Assistive Technology is a Winter Quarter Stanford course - entering its fifteenth year - that explores the design, development, and use of assistive technology that benefits people with disabilities and older adults. It consists of semi-weekly online discussions; lectures by notable professionals, clinicians, and assistive technology users; virtual tours of local medical, clinical, and engineering facilities; student project presentations and demonstrations; and a Virtual Assistive Technology Faire.

Course News

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Course Statistics - Forty-three students have enrolled in the course, four students are auditing, ten vendors plan to participate in the Virtual Assistive Technology Faire, and twenty-six students have chosen to work on nineteen projects, ten suggested by six community members.

Next class session - Tuesday, March 16th at 4:30pm PDT via Zoom

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End-of-term Student Project Presentations

Abstract: This quarter students 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 or report on an assistive technology topic. Each student will give a formal presentation detailing their project activities. Please note that this was a seven-week individual project effort and the students' prototypes are not intended to represent commercial offerings.

Presentation order:

Order Project / Student(s) Minutes
1 Abby's Vegetable Cutter
Jayla Kilson & Drew Dalman
8
2 PACE for Uniformity
Shane Griffith
6
3 Disability in Sports: Adaptive Skiing and the High Fives Foundation
Zach Sehgal
6
4 The Assistive Technology Lab of Community Vision, Inc.
Ugyen Norphel Lama
6
5 Safe Communication Methods at Children's National Hospital
Samuel Good
6
6 Advances in Wheelchair Mobility
Jake Lynch
6
7 Prosthetics in the World of Sports
Kyle Petrucci
6
8 One-Handed Trumpeteering
Bradley Immel
6
9 Tilly's Phone Holder
Bryce Huerta, Rachael Flam & Allison Cong
10

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This class session will be open to community attendance - Please let me know if you if you would like to attend this Zoom session.

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Email questions, comments, or suggestions - Please email me if you have general questions, comments, corncerns, or suggestions regarding the course. Thank you again for your interest.

Dave

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