Students Design Prototypes of Products to Aid Disabled
NC State News Services has an interesting rundown of senior design projects by NC State textile engineering students. The students worked in teams this year to design prototypes of products for people with disabilities.
They partnered with local members of the disabled community to determine textile solutions for problems facing those with disabilities — from a more comfortable wheelchair to a new shoe-tying system. And to come up with solutions, many students got a hands-on research experience.
Their prototypes are impressive and include two new types of wheelchairs, systems to help disabled people with everyday tasks such as buttoning a shirt and a “sensing vest that assists the visually impaired with walking by providing discrete vibrations when an object is in its path.” Scott Ryan ’10 explains the vest in the above video.
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this is great. i found your link from aatcc. i am also studying disabled students. keep up the good work!