Kickstarting Advances in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies

推动辅助和康复技术的进步

• 批准号: 2125017
• 负责人: Patricio Vela
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2125017&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Kickstarting; Advances; Assistive; Rehabilitative; Technologies

Overview: A virtual workshop on the topic of assistive and rehabilitative technologies for persons with disabilities or impairments will be conducted The main objective of the workshop is to understand the existing landscape of research, development, and practice for these technologies and how they promote better and healthier living for persons with disabilities or impairments. Building on participant insights and expertise, the challenges and opportunities for convergence based research that’s inspired by users will be identified by workshop participants. They will engage with each other to answer several relevant questions regarding this landscape and to develop a framework for identifying investigations and initiatives ready for convergent acceleration. Inspired by grounded theory studies, the synthesized knowledge and identified categories will be fed back to the participants for further exploration and refinement. Intellectual Merit: The workshop aims to identify candidate research and translational gaps related to assistive and rehabilitative technologies. This will be made possible by bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders from academia, industry, other agencies, nonprofits and the users themselves. To provide a coherent structure to the workshop , the overall research area has been decomposed into the intervention type, the various populations with disabilities or impairments, and the enablers of the technological interventions. Participants and perspectives from across these classes will be invited. In bringing together professionals and people who would not normally comingle, the intent is to compare and contrast the different perspective to arrive at a holistic understanding of the field and answer the questions: What initiatives or innovations would most effectively address the most impactful needs of the various target populations.? Are these initiatives capable of resulting in a proof-of-concept deliverable within a 3-4 year period? These answers should identify some clear themes that need convergence and are ready for an accelerated delivery of some tangible outcomes. Broader Impacts: Beside the potential to seed new research collaborations, the work will connect researchers, practitioners, nonprofits and industry in some very unique partnerships. Secondly, the topic of investigation is one that touches on most members of society given the prevalence of disabilities or injury-related impairments within the population.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

概述：关于残疾人或障碍者的辅助和康复技术主题的虚拟研讨会将是研讨会的主要目标，就是要了解这些技术的现有研究，发展和实践的景观，以及如何为残疾人或障碍者促进更好，更健康的生活。在参与者的见解和专业知识的基础上，由用户启发的基于融合研究的挑战和机会将由研讨会参与者确定。他们将互相互动，以回答有关这种景观的几个相关问题，并开发一个框架，以确定准备收敛加速的投资和计划。受扎根理论研究的启发，合成的知识和确定的类别将被馈回参与者以进行进一步的探索和完善。智力优点：该研讨会旨在确定与辅助和康复技术有关的候选研究和翻译差距。通过将来自学术界，行业，其他机构，非营利组织和用户本身的利益相关者组成的潜水者组合在一起，将实现这一目标。为了为研讨会提供连贯的结构，总体研究领域已分解为干预类型，各种残疾或障碍的人群以及技术干预的推动者。将邀请来自这些课程的参与者和观点。在将通常不会来的专业人士和人们汇集在一起​​时，目的是比较和对比不同的观点，以使对领域的整体了解并回答问题：哪些计划或创新将最有效地满足各个目标人群中最有影响力的需求。这些举措是否有能力在3 - 4年内产生概念验证的证明？这些答案应确定一些需要收敛的明确主题，并准备加速交付一些有形的结果。更广泛的影响：除了播种新的研究合作的潜力外，这项工作还将在一些非常独特的伙伴关系中连接研究人员，从业人员，非营利组织和行业。其次，鉴于人口内部的残疾或与伤害相关的损害的患病率，调查的话题是对社会大多数成员的涉及的话题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准评估来诚实地获得支持。