Team-Based Design of Assistive Technology Devices

辅助技术设备的团队设计

• 批准号: 10380862
• 负责人: Christina Espinosa Bard
• 金额: $ 4.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2022-12-19
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10380862
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Adoption; Affect; Applications Grants; Biomedical Engineering; Caregivers; Caring; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Development; Device Designs; Devices; Disabled Persons; Economics; Educational Activities; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Ethics; Evaluation; Family member; Fostering; Future; Goals; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Hospitals; Hour; Human; Human Development; Immersion; Institutes; Kentucky; Medical Device; Needs Assessment; Outcome; Participant; Patients; Performance; Physical Medicine; Physical Rehabilitation; Problem Solving; Process; Program Evaluation; Quality of life; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Resources; Running; Rural; Self-Help Devices; Societal Factors; Structure; Students; Testing; Thinking; Training; Universities; Work; Writing; base; design; disability; disabled students; engineering design; experience; falls; holistic approach; improved; lectures; minority student; multidisciplinary; optimism; physically handicapped; programs; prototype; satisfaction; skills; social; student participation; undergraduate student; user centered design

Project Summary The goal of this proposed educational program is to train and create a biomedical engineering workforce capable of identifying and addressing the assistive technology device needs of persons with disabilities. Training will revolve around the design and development of assistive technology devices that satisfy the needs of persons with disabilities, are not abandoned by the user, and which demonstrate an understanding of the social, ethical, environmental, and technical challenges associated with the use of assistive technology devices. We propose a unique educational program aimed at enabling undergraduate Biomedical Engineering students to design such assistive technology devices in a team-based environment. Implementing two undergraduate courses, a summer clinical immersion and several community immersion activities, we will achieve our goal by completing three specific aims: 1) To provide a multidisciplinary team-based design experience, 2) To provide a unique holistic biomedical training associated with adoption and use of assistive technology devices, 3) To provide training in assistive technology device needs through clinical and community immersion experiences. This educational program will be offered in a partnership between the University of Kentucky F. Joseph Halcomb III MD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the Human Development Institute (a statewide extension network for persons with disabilities in Kentucky). Each cycle of the program will take one year and will start with a spring semester course on social, technical, ethical, and economic challenges associated with design and use of assistive technology devices. With the Human Development Institute as a program partner, participating students will be able to complete several community immersion activities as a part of this course wherein they will closely observe the interactions between practitioners, persons with disabilities and their family members. A summer clinical immersion will also be offered as a part of the proposed program wherein 12 undergraduate engineering students (10 from Biomedical Engineering) will complete 200 hours of clinical observation activities at a local rehabilitation hospital (Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital). Participants will be trained to identify unaddressed assistive technology device needs during clinical and community immersion experiences. Trainees will then be coached to design and prototype biomedical engineering solutions for a select number of the identified assistive technology needs. A special consideration will be given to user needs when guiding student teams in their projects. The proposed educational program will be led by a team of three program directors with complementary engineering, clinical, and community expertise who have piloted a successful run of the proposed program during the 2019-2020 academic year. Participation of non-engineering students, students with disabilities and minority students will be encouraged. Finally, program evaluation will be led by the Evaluation Unit of the Human Development Institute.

项目摘要 该建议的教育计划的目标是培训和创建生物医学工程劳动力 能够识别和满足残疾人的辅助技术设备需求。 培训将围绕满足需求的辅助技术设备的设计和开发 残疾人没有被用户放弃，这表明了对 与使用辅助技术相关的社会，道德，环境和技术挑战 设备。我们提出了一项独特的教育计划，旨在使本科生物医学工程能够 学生在基于团队的环境中设计此类辅助技术设备。实施两个 本科课程，夏季临床沉浸和几项社区沉浸活动，我们将 通过完成三个具体目标来实现我们的目标：1）提供基于多学科的团队设计 经验，2）提供与采用和使用辅助相关的独特整体生物医学培训 技术设备，3）通过临床和社区提供辅助技术设备需求的培训 沉浸体验。该教育计划将在大学之间的合作关系中提供 肯塔基州Joseph Halcomb III MD，生物医学工程系，物理部 医学和康复，以及人类发展研究所（全州范围的扩展网络 肯塔基州的残疾）。该计划的每个周期将需要一年，并从春季学期开始 与设计和使用相关的社会，技术，道德和经济挑战课程 技术设备。在人类发展研究所作为计划合作伙伴的情况下，参与学生将是 能够完成几项社区沉浸活动，作为本课程的一部分 观察从业者，残疾人与其家人之间的互动。夏天 临床沉浸也将作为拟议计划的一部分提供，其中12个本科生 工程专业的学生（来自生物医学工程的10名）将完成200个小时的临床观察活动 在当地的康复医院（红衣主教山康复医院）。参与者将接受培训以识别 在临床和社区沉浸体验期间，未解决的辅助技术设备需求。 然后，学员将被指导设计和原型生物医学工程解决方案，以精选的数量 确定的辅助技术需求。指导用户需要特别考虑 他们的项目中的学生团队。拟议的教育计划将由三个计划组成的团队领导 领导成功跑步的互补工程，临床和社区专业知识的董事 在2019-2020学年的拟议计划中。参与非工程学生， 将鼓励残疾学生和少数族裔学生。最后，计划评估将由 人类发展研究所的评估部门。