Checking date: 21/10/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Technology disability support
(17051)
Master in Telecomunications Engineering (Plan: 171 - Estudio: 227)
EPI


Coordinating teacher: VERGAZ BENITO, RICARDO

Department assigned to the subject: Electronic Technology Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Not applicable
Objectives
The main goals for students in this subject are the following: - Knowledge and Application skills of the requirements of Design for All (DpT) to the design of products and systems to support the disabled persons. - Knowledge of the current state of the art both in off-the-shelf products in the market and on research projects. - Ability to design and evaluate electronic and photonic systems to support disability. - Ability to develop an individual work on a product or electronic and / or photonic system for a specific disability profile meeting specific technical requirements. - Ability to apply the acquired knowledge and solve problems in new environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study in order to transfer them to the field of disability support systems.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
M0: Overview of Disability: Current Status and Challenges -0.1 Definitions of impairment / disability. -0.2 Geographical distribution of disability in the World / Spain. Current challenges. -0.3 Guidelines and rules accessible / universal design. Description of the principles of universal design. Example of practical application M1: Evaluation of technical aids: standards and best practices. -1.1 Overview of national reglamentation related to disability M2: Evaluation of support products: standards and best practices - 2.1: Classification of SPs - 2.2: Classic Technology vs Current Technology M3: Products supporting for the visually impaired. - 3.1: Anatomy of the eye. - 3.2: Low vision - 3.3: Assistive products for low vision M4: Motor Disability -4.1: Introduction and motor disability issues -4.2: Technical Aids for motor disability M5: Intellectual Disability. -5.1: Causes of intellectual disability -5.2: AAC Systems M6: Hearing impairment -6.1: Ear anatomy -6.2: Causes of hearing impairment -6.3: Audiovisual Accessibility -6.4: Tecnical Aids
Learning activities and methodology
LEARNING ACTIVITIES Masterclass Theoretical and practical class Tutorials Group work Individual work of the student METHODOLOGY Presentations in the classroom by the teacher, with audiovisual support, in which the main concepts of the subject will be exposed, and the bibliography to support students learning will be presented. Questioning reading of the professor recommended texts: press articles, manuals, papers, in order to discuss in the classroom or to increase and strengthen the acquired knowledge. Flipped classroom supported by all this documents. Aula Global debate forum. Active learning activities and debates into the classroom. Work and reports preparation, both held in group or individual format.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • A. Mittal and S. Sofat. Sensors and Displays for Electronic Travel Aids: A Survey. International Journal of Image Processing, 5, 1-14.. 2010
  • Eds.: M. A. Hersh and M. Johnson. Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind People, . Springer. ISBN 978-1-84628-867-8. 2008
  • Eds.: W.Barfield and T.Caudell . Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality.. Mahway, NJ, US.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate. 2001
  • Eds.:Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Maria Miranda and Patricia Gonçalves. Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services (2 Volumes) . DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7,ISBN13:9781466639867, ISBN10: 1466639865, EISBN13: 9781466639874. 2014
  • Georgios Kouroupetroglou. Assistive Technologies and Computer Access for Motor Disabilities. IGI Global. ISBN-10:*1466644389*ISBN-13:*978-1466644380 . 2013
  • Reiner Wichert, Birgid Eberhardt. Ambient Assisted Living: 5. AAL-Kongress 2012 Berlin, Germany, January 24-25, 2012 . Springer. *ISBN-10:*3642440460* ISBN-13:*978-3642440465 . 2014
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