Dilip Nagarkar, Swetha Sundar, Chao Yin and Cristina Wong-Nomura (Duke University) designed a customized drum kit to provide comfortable musical recreation for a boy with TAR syndrome.
Archive | 2011
Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Vertical Lift Walker for Sit-to-Stand Transition Assistance (Case Western Reserve University)
Thomas C. Bulea and Ronald J. Triolo (Case Western Reserve University) Designed and experimentally validated a pneumatic lift assist walker for individuals with limited mobility from spinal cord injury
Mobile Landmark Identification for Visually-Impaired and Blind Individuals (RIT)
The primary goal of this project is to design a portable device that assists visually impaired and blind persons (VIBP) to select a bus and find the exact location of that bus at a bus stop.
Achieving Mobility (Calvin College)
Dan Evans, Matt Last, Matt Rozema, and Rob VanderVennen (Calvin College) designed and built a highly customized electric stroller for a 10-year-old boy who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Rockstar Guitar Stand [Duke University]
By David McNaughton on April 28, 2011 in 2011, Semi-Finalist, Tech for Cognitive & Sensory Impairments
Rachel Belzer, Kristine Brown, Brendan Moore, and Al Samost [Duke University] designed a guitar and piano stand which attaches to a wheelchair to aid a client with Cerebral Palsy.
Portable Sunshade [Duke University]
Henry Hwang, John Lee, Tamara Louie, Nicholas Ong (Duke University) designed a portable sunshade to provide a pleasant gardening experience for people with disabilities.
EasyShrink heat gun safety device (Duke University)
By David McNaughton on April 28, 2011 in 2011, Job & Environmental Accommodation, Student Design Challenge Finalists
Michael Chao, Ian King, Esther Lee, and Shengnan Xiang (Duke University) designed a heat gun safety device for employees with disabilities at OE Enterprises.
Bowling Slide for Individuals Seated in Wheelchairs (University of Pittsburgh)
By David McNaughton on April 28, 2011 in 2011, Computer Applications & Communication, Wheelchair Seating Technologies
Cheng-Shiu (Joshua) Chung, Xin Wang, Saleh AlQahtani Designed the bowling slide for people in wheelchairs to play safely and happily.
Bilateral Exoskeleton Stroke Therapy (The B.E.S.T. Device) – The Catholic University of America
The objective of the senior design project was to design and fabricate a low cost, in-home, robotic controlled therapeutic system that opens and closes the right hand of a stroke patient.
The PushTracker: An Activity Monitor for Manual Wheelchair Users
By David McNaughton on April 28, 2011 in 2011, Outcome & Quantitative Measurement (OUT), Student Design Challenge Finalists
To assist manual wheelchair users in avoiding upper limb pain and pathology we created a device that can track their activity level throughout and across several months. To do this we custom designed and built a printed circuit board with associated circuit components.