Winter Quarter 2008 Course Announcement:

with Professor Drew Nelson
and David L. Jaffe, MS
Winter Quarter, Tuesdays 4:15pm - 5:05pm
Location: Meyer Forum (Meyer Library, Room 124)

Articles of Interest

ROLLING - This documentary was primarily filmed by the three participants via video cameras mounted on their wheelchairs: Buckwalter, a clinical psychologist paralyzed at 17; Wallengren, a TV writer with five children who suffered from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), which stole his mobility and, finally, his ability to speak and breathe; and Elman, who was the business manager for a department at the UCLA School of Medicine until multiple sclerosis put her in a wheelchair.

Left Foot Accelerator

Helping Clients Obtain Funding for Assistive Technology

No Limits for Marilyn Hamilton

Catalogs of low tech devices for people with disabilities:

Allegro Medical

Sammons Preston

North Coast Medical

EnableMart

American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)

Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)

Considerations for Home-Based Devices - Matthew Jordan
Manufacturers should create a positive user experience for devices that will primarily be used by patients at home.

Understanding Human Factors - Reade Harpham, David Wourms, and Donna Pydlek
Several tips could help device makers incorporate human factors into the development process.

An article and video (11 minutes) about students with disabilities using assistive technology

Disaboom will transform the way people with disabilities live their lives. Every tool they want or need from finding medical information written in easy-to-understand language to buying disability specific products, from taking a vacation to building relationships with other Disaboom members, from travel tips and reviews to entering athletic events or checking the weather, will be in one place. It's an all encompassing community that meets basic needs, but also educates its audience about their conditions and strives to improve the overall quality of their lives. Disaboom.com's goal is to become the single most important website for those living with disabilities.

The male dance partner is an amputee who prominently uses a crutch in this beautiful ballet video. (5.5 Mb - 4:59) - Alternate webpage

American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for voting technology - 2006 Selker honored for aiding voting for disabled.

Open Mind Commonsense (adds emotional icons to emails) A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge

The Forgetting - A Portrait of Alzheimer's

No Barriers Conference

Inventables is a company that scouts trade shows, combs the Internet, and studies specialty publications to find cool new ways to improve already existing products.

"Inventables offers students access to our premium industry research for academic use. Inventables is all about innovation and we hope this student version will unleash innovative ideas from students' minds. The student version provides access to a part of the Inventables database for $15."

Hired to Invent
Your company may own your brainchild
From: IEEE Spectrum - 02/2008 - page 25
By: Kirk Teska

If you're an engineer, you were probably hired to invent. That means that even if you come up with something that brings in heaps of money for your employer, you are owed nothing beyond your regular paycheck.

Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study - NY Times

Updated 04/16/2008

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