About
Workshop Purpose
The workshop aims to identify near-term, convergent opportunities to expand and advance the solution space of rehabilitative and assistive technologies for persons with disabilities or impairments. The workshop will enlist people from across the stakeholder spectrum to learn from each other about the existing landscape with regards to rehabilitative and assistive technologies that promote better and healthier living by people with disabilities or impairments.
The intent is to identify gaps and opportunities within this landscape that can define a candidate research and development campaign that may lead to a significant investment by the National Science Foundation towards research and innovation for empowering people with disabilities.
Organizers
Ted Conway: Professor & Head, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Inst. of Technology
C. Aiden Downey: Lecturer, Alice Solomon University
Monica H. Kang: Founder & CEO of InnovatorsBox, Author of Rethink Creativity,
Patricio A. Vela: Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Technology
Ted Conway
C. Aiden Downey
Monica H. Kang
Patricio A. Vela
Partner Workshop:
There is a partner NSF CA workshop exploring similar themes with a focus on workforce inclusion for people with disabilities.
NSF Convergence Accelerator
The Convergence Accelerator is new program with an emphasis on use-inspired, convergent research with the potential to impact society, industry, and research by demonstrating tangible outcomes on a topic of national interest. It strives to bring together multiple disciplines and expertise categories and to promote cross-cutting partnerships from the spectrum of stakeholders.
Backers
Pradeep P. Fulay: Program Director, Convergence Accelerator, National Science Foundation
Grace M. Hwang: Program Director, Disabilities and Rehabilitation Engineering, National Science Foundation
Support provided through NSF Award #2125017.
