Develop personnalized solution to assist motor impairement of real patients

The Assistive Technologies Challenge, give students the opportunity to design and develop meaningful technological solutions for and with people with disabilities. The challenge aims at giving the students first hand experience in working with real end-users and to understand how their skills and abilities can have a positive impact on society.

The challenge offered as a group semester project and is open to all sections within STI (SGM, SMT, SEL, SMX) and SV.

Multidisciplinary teams of 3-5 students are assigned a “challenger” with a specific need to solve an everyday challenge. By adopting a “user-in-the-loop” approach, the students translate these needs into tangible goals. Over the course of several iterations, they work towards achieving these goals by following an established product design methodology for medical devices.

A project assistant advise each team by monitoring their progress and providing them guidance during the semester. Furthermore, the students participate in interactive workshops focused on user-centric design, prototyping methods, project resource management, and the ethical considerations of working with humans within the sphere of medical technologies. The teams have access to prototyping facilities, and is assigned a budget to purchase materials & services.