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Course: 2025/2026

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


Coordinating teacher: SANCHEZ PENA, JOSE MANUEL

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.
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. Note: Use of Artificial Intelligence tools is selectively allowed in this subject. The teacher may indicate a list of assignments and exercises that the student may carry out using AI tools, specifying how they should be used, and how the student should describe the use he/she has made of them. If the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Carlos III University of Madrid Regulations for the partial development of Law 3/2022, of 24 February, on university coexistence will be applied. 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/test 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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