Assistive Technology Faire

Life Glider™
Life Glider™ - Rob Karlovich
The Life Glider™ is an innovative walking aide with a unique hands-free support feature for people with balance and weight-bearing challenges. It enables users to stand and walk safely and comfortably for extended periods while engaged in everyday activities such cooking and grocery shopping.

Service Dog Training
Service Dog Tutor - Jean Cary and Service Dog Ranger
Service Dog Tutor adapts clients' own dogs to do specific service tasks for their owners. Clients include seniors and children who have mobility and balance challenges as well as cognitive disabilities.

Digital Accelerator Ring and the Main Hand Brake
Kempf - Martine Kempf
The Digital Accelerator Ring and the Main Hand Brake are hand controls that can be installed on most cars with automatic transmissions to allow a person who has lost the use of both legs to drive with both hands on the steering wheel.

Podna Rover
Podna Designs - Elaine Levin
The Podna Rover is an innovative all-terrain mobility device for individuals who need additional support to maintain balance or stability while walking. The device offers confidence to outdoor travelers over gravel, uneven surfaces, and inclines. It features compliant wheels, a self-centering frame, a suspension to soak up bumps, and self-locking brakes.

Whill Wheelchair       Not Attending
Whill, Inc. - Chris Koyama
The Whill is an omnidirectional four-wheel-drive mobility device meant to give wheelchair users a sleek alternative to standard chairs, which many believe reinforce stereotypes of weakness or helplessness. The product recently received the Good Design Grand Award.

Eyefluence’s Eye-interaction Platform
Eyefluence - Peter Milford
Eyefluence’s eye-interaction platform provides technology that can be integrated into any head mounted device to realize the potential for wearable computing by connecting your brain to the internet through your eyes. Head-mounted displays equipped with Eyefluence's eye-interaction technology have the potential to expand human intelligence, enhance social interaction, and revolutionize entertainment.

Beyond Exoskeletons - Wearable Exosuit Technologies
SRI International - Roy Kornbluh
SRI is developing wearable "exosuits" that can augment the musculoskeletal system for performance and strength enhancement and assistance to overcome or prevent damage from injury or disease. SRI's exosuit differs from exoskeletons by using new muscle-like actuation, comfortable and soft skin attachment, and electronically releasable spring elements to minimize mass, bulk, and noise. As part of DARPA's Warrior Web program, the technology is being applied to prevent and reduce musculoskeletal injuries caused by dynamic events typically found in the warfighter’s environment. We are exploring other military applications and beginning to use the technologies to assist individuals with musculoskeletal disease.

Robot Guide & Ultrasonic White Cane
Intellisight - Brian Higgins
The Robot Guide is a 7th generation prototype that employs three ultrasonic sensors and a LIDAR range sensor while the Ultrasonic White Cane incorporates one ultrasonic sensor. Both devices use a Bluetooth bone conduction headset to provide audio feedback about objects in the walking path, enhancing guidance and navigation for blind travelers.

Assistive Technology Device Lending Library
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center - Joe Escalante
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center (SVILC) is a cross-disability, intergenerational, and multicultural disability justice organization that creates fully inclusive communities that value the dignity, equality, freedom and worth of every human being. SVILC maintains a lending library of assistive technology so consumers may borrow a device free of charge and try it before buying it, use it to compare similar devices, or to use while a personal device is being repaired.

Accessible Voting Machine
IDEO - Albert Leung
IDEO designers created a voting system that addresses the complexities unique to Los Angles' voter base, including its vastly diverse population and its myriad election laws and policies. The goal is to build a system that would be useful and accessible to voters of all ages, backgrounds, and disabilities: those who are vision and hearing impaired, use wheelchairs, have learning disabilities, are unfamiliar with technology, and speak languages other than English.

Autism Glass
The Autism Glass Project at Stanford Medicine - Beth McCarthy & Jena Daniels
The project uses Google Glass to help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder understand social cues and aid the behavioral therapy treatment process. Using a custom eye tracking infrared camera and Glass's head motion tracking sensors and microphone, the software analyzes the wearer's behavior when interacting with others, displays real time social cues about facial expressions (i.e. "interested," "frustrated," etc), and records the amount and type of eye contact made.

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