A Wheelchair Wheel Changing Station is an apparatus which allows people who have upper body mobility and use wheelchairs to change their wheels independently.
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WheelXChanger: Wheelchair Wheel Changing Station
Roll With It Queen’s University
The RWI device is a low cost, walker-style device made from mostly PVC piping and other materials commonly found in a hardware store.
Trunk Muscle Transducer: A device to quantify trunk muscle forces Case Western Reserve University, Biomedical Engineering Department
The Trunk Muscle Transducer (TMT), was designed to interface with both a six-axis load cell and a subject to accurately determine trunk muscle forces as trunk orientation changes in the anterior/posterior (AP) and medial/lateral (ML) directions.
Sign Language Augmented Reality Real-time Animation (SLARA) Cairo University
SLARA translator mobile application offers a solution that provides them a simple way to communicate with the others.
AttendIT Dominican College
AttendIT is a device made for the self-motivated school-aged child with ADHD that wants to succeed in class. It uses a timer and small LED lights that turn on at the end of the timer to remind the child to pay attention to the class lesson.
ReACH: Rehabilitation for Augmenting Children’s Healthcare Georgia Institute of Technology
The ReACH Game is designed to exercise everyday motions through repetitive arm movements. The main components of this system include the robot NAO, a structural frame, two targets, touch sensor, and a custom Arduino program.
Enabling Art: Accessible Art Creation for K-5th Grade Students University of Texas at Austin
The primary goal of this project was to design an art station that students could easily interact with, and create art with independently.
Circles: An online platform facilitating social connection among older adults The University of Waterloo
A prototype online platform, called Circles, was developed that helps older adults find groups they are interested in and participate in semi-structured, small group video calls.
Accessible Adjustable Easel (AAE): An Assistive Tool for Community Skill Building University of Pittsburgh
We decided to design an accessible easel which is versatile and accessible for wheelchair users. It can be adjusted according to the height of a client’s wheelchairand can also be adjusted at different angles to be able to accommodate client’s preferences to work on.
A Smart Cooling Vest for People with Thermoregulatory Disorder City College of New York
We designed a cooling vest to cool water with a Peltier cooler and circulate it through a network of tubes around the vest by inducing flow with a centrifugal pump.