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Tuesday, January
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Course Overview
& Introduction to Assistive Technology
David L. Jaffe, MS
Mechanical Engineering Design Group - Stanford
University |
Abstract: This presentation will
begin with an overview of the course including its objectives, credentials,
structure, candidate projects, guest lectures, grading, and expected student
experience. A brief introduction to Assistive Technology follows, touching on
definitions, demographics, rehabilitation goals, perceptions, challenges,
social correctness, and numerous examples of commercial products, research
efforts, and past student projects.
Biosketch: David L. Jaffe holds
a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a MS
degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Dave was a
Research Biomedical Engineer at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System's
Rehabilitation Research and Development Center. His interests there were
designing, developing, testing, and bringing to market microcomputer-based
devices for veterans with disabilities including communication, mobility, and
information systems. He worked on several VA assistive technology research
projects including an powered wheelchair interface for individuals with
quadriplegia, an electro-mechanical fingerspelling hand that served as a
communication device for people who are deaf/blind, a system that explored
virtual reality techniques to train individuals with gait deficits to improve
their walking, and a project that employed a computer-based simulation system
to assess and improve the driving ability of individuals after brain
injury.
In addition to organizing this course,
ENGR110/210: Perspectives in Assistive Technology, he contributes to
other Stanford courses including defining the quarterly course projects in
ME218: Smart Product Design and ME310: Engineering Design
Entrepreneurship and Innovation as well as mentoring students working on
assistive technology projects throughout the year.
- Contact
Information:
- davejaffe -at-
stanford.edu
- Lecture Material:
- Slides - Course Overview (7.1
Mb) - Introduction to Assistive Technology (9.3 Mb)
- Videos:
- Ultrasonic Head Controlled
Wheelchair (0:38)
- Ralph Fingerspelling Hand
(2:04)
- Discover the World of
Science (10:35)
- Links:
- Why
Communications Skills Are Critical to Engineers - IEEE Spectrum
- I
asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about living without
them - MIT Technology Review
- The Problems
with Ramps Blended into Stairs
- Disability
Impacts All of Us
- 13
Humans with Real-Life X-Men Mutant Super Powers
- Ed Roberts Campus - a universally
designed, transit-oriented campus
- Physical
and Mobility Impairment Factsheet
- Introduction to Assistive Technology -
Jennifer McDonald-Peltier, MS, ATP (video 2:11)
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