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ATLAS

Assistive
Technology 
Laboratory
at
Stanford

 
 
Technology and design benefitting individuals with disabilities and seniors in the local community
March 8, 2013  
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.

Team ProApps
Social Development Program for Students with Autism

photo of Beth Shields
Beth Shields
photo of Kevin McCabe
Kevin McCabe

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.

Team Sane Fix
Monkey Bar Prosthetic Project

photo of Sane Cassidy
Sane Cassidy
photo of Tal Fix
Tal Fix

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.

Touch of a Button!
Dressing Aids

photo of Kelly Nguyen
Kelly Nguyen
photo of Raymond Liou
Raymond Liou
photo of Nathaniel Wynn
Nathaniel Wynn

Project: Explore designs for anyone with an upper extremity impairment to help them button their pants and shirt (including sleeves).

Team Flatland
Flat House Project

photo of Will Tucker
Will Tucker
photo of Matt Rios
Matt Rios
photo of Tommy Fraychineaud
Tommy Fraychineaud

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.

Team Xavier
Neurosky Project

photo of Andrew Logan
Andrew Logan

Project: Explore an application for a person with a disability using the NeuroSky brain-computer interface product.

Team Oh Inhalers / MyInhaler
Inhaler Appearance Project

photo of Kezia Alfred
Kezia Alfred

Project: Explore designs for inhalers that would improve their appearance, including making them more discreet.

Team Too Clean
Wheelchair Wheel Washer

photo of Sean Pacheco
Sean Pacheco

Project: Explore designs to remove dirt from the wheels of a powered or manual wheelchair or walker.

The Pedphiles
Sock Donning Aid

photo of Anna Evans
Anna Evans
photo of Richard Lui
Richard Lui
photo of Wade Hatton
Wade Hatton

Project: Explore a new design for a sock donning aid that can be used with one hand.




Do you have a question or comment? - David L. Jaffe, MS, the course instructor, can be reached by email or at 650/892-4464.

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