Ramps: A Physical Interface to Technology for Wheelchair Users

General framework for incentivizing pediatric patients to more fully participate in therapy

A programmable inflatable vest which automatically provides deep pressure input for children with modulation or processing disorders.

Allow a wheelchair-bound patient with limited motor skills to capture video via a modified, touch sensor remote control.

Photographic interface that maximizes independency of physically handicapped people

This projects measures handwriting pressure and foot position to help grade school students improve their handwriting by improving their posture and pencil pressure.

The Mouth Piano is an adaptive musical interface that allows users with limited hand and/or feet usage to express themselves via music while providing physical therapy for their oral motor mechanism (tongue, lips, teeth, and cheeks).

Q Beta is a soft, accessible quilt that enables communication through voice messages assigned to each of its quilt squares.

A lap tray for children who use power wheelchairs for mobility and don’t have the ability to reach their backpacks hanging on the back of the chair.

PedalPlay is a project that will demonstrate that motivating children with autism to use a stationary bicycle, by adapting the bicycle to provide audio and visual responses when being operated, will help this form of exercise to become a more effective component of the children’s physical therapy.