2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)最新文献

{"title":"Establishing a collaboration between care providers and engineers","authors":"G. Baldewijns, P. Sabbe, Kristien Rombouts, K. Peeters, An Mondelaers, Jessica Hekking, T. Croonenborghs, B. Vanrumste","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177894","url":null,"abstract":"Although a lot of research effort has focused on the development of new technologies that support healthcare professionals, only a small fraction of these developments penetrate the healthcare market. The reasons for this are multi-factorial, but in our opinion a major problem is the lack of cooperation between engineers and care providers during the early research phase. An improved collaboration between engineers and care providers would ensure that the developed products better match the needs of the care providers and hence facilitate the marketing of the developed product. To improve this collaboration throughout the entire research phase, a new strategy is presented in this paper. An important step in this strategy is the incorporation of an engineering lab within a nursing facility, which is set-up during the project ‘Ingenieurs@WZC’.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130056961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crafting a 21st century undergraduate engineering programme for Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"S. Buchele, Aelaf Dafla","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177906","url":null,"abstract":"Ashesi University College in Ghana, West Africa is a young, private, not-for-profit, undergraduate university that is providing a critical-thinking based broad education to its pan-African student body. Ashesi will launch an engineering programme in the coming year, and has taken the opportunity to design a 21st century engineering programme appropriate to the developing world context. Recent information on engineering education best practices was incorporated into the programme, and various stakeholders were involved at multiple stages throughout the process. The new engineering programme maintains Ashesi's emphasis on ethics, leadership, and civic engagement, while adding the mathematics, sciences, and engineering subjects necessary to the discipline. Engineering-specific courses will combine theoretical topics with practical labs and frequent projects. In addition, Ashesi engineering students will undertake a year-long community-engaged service learning group project in their third year, and a year-long capstone project in their final year. This paper details the development process of Ashesi's unique engineering programme, and provides a summary of this curriculum that draws from modern best practices but is tailored toward the Sub-Saharan Africa context.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133346084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards technology with a global heart through compassionate engineering","authors":"M. Bernardine Dias, Ermine A. Teves, M. Beatrice Dias","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177907","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the concept of “compassionate engineering,” a process adopted by our research group, TechBridgeWorld, for developing technology solutions that are relevant and accessible to people in underserved communities. The stages of compassionate engineering include establishing partnerships based in trust, assessing needs, participatory design, iterative innovation with frequent user tests, training developer teams, dissemination, and deployment. This paper describes each of these stages in detail along with lessons learned and recommendations. The process of compassionate engineering is further illustrated via the case study of TechBridgeWorld's Braille Tutor (BT) project. The BT project tackles literacy challenges for children in the developing world who are burdened by both poverty and blindness. Literacy plays a key role in empowering the blind, especially in the developing world. Over the past nine years the BT project has explored the challenges and abilities of blind children in developing communities, and developed technology innovations to empower these children and their educators.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132729457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Memory palaces to improve quality of life in dementia","authors":"A. Morel, K. Bormans, Kristien Rombouts","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177904","url":null,"abstract":"Memory palaces can be used to improve memory for elderly even when coping with mild cognitive impairment. This study will use the method of Loci (MoL) for people with early dementia still living at home. With the use of augmented reality, people make a walk through their own house and will be triggered by an app to memorize their relatives. By doing this, they will be encouraged to tell positive stories. The expected outcome will be an improvement of quality of life for both people with dementia and their relatives.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123999482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning to shape places of care by empathising with patients and caregivers","authors":"M. Annemans, Valerie Van der Linden, Elina Karanastasi, A. Heylighen","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177893","url":null,"abstract":"A crucial ability for architects and other designers is to empathise with the people they design for. In architectural education, however, these people are hardly present. Therefore, a design studio was set up to try and stimulate architecture students to empathise with the users of the building being designed. Students were asked to design a cancer caring centre next to a university hospital. This paper evaluates to what extent the studio was successful in achieving its aim. Analysis of students' design proposals and reactions to a follow-up survey suggests that the studio succeeded in encouraging students to empathise with users and their needs and wants, at least to some extent. Comparison across different years suggests that formats in which students can interact with users in a more personal way are more effective in stimulating empathy. Further research is needed to examine to what extent the attitude developed in the studio sustains as students enter architectural practice.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114500896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing for the homeless in the product and industrial master at FEUP","authors":"Daniela Carrico, B. Rangel","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177902","url":null,"abstract":"This Paper intends to describe the development of a product design project with the aim to promote social integration and increase the self-esteem of a population living in a homeless situation.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133797308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating 3E-materials at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana","authors":"D. Osseo-Asare, Yasmine Abbas","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177898","url":null,"abstract":"The product life cycles of electrical appliances and electronic devices impact society and the environment, given the hazardous portion present in their materials flow. Scrapping as an industry serves to decommission end-of-life (EOL) equipment, linking materials processing and recovery activities with recycling, but must be controlled against adverse environmental and human health safety factors. This work tracks an on-going effort-the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP)-to use participatory design methods to upgrade capabilities of the scrap, recycling and maker community located at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana through co-creation of technology. The authors explain AMP's aim to reconceptualize Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE or e-waste) as Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE or 3E): not as waste, but as inter-manipulable assemblages of 3E-materials. AMP seeks to employ a hands-on Makers and Development approach (M&D) as a collaborative process to drive interclass innovation by co-designing and fabricating a makerspace, or open community workshop and lab, and networking e-waste and scrap recyclers starting at Agbogbloshie with students and recent graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics or STEAM fields. The investigation at Agbogbloshie over a period of 24 months suggests opportunities for utilizing participatory design to leverage waste management and 3E-materials processing across informal sector recycling ecosystems as inputs for popular prototyping, i.e. peer-to-peer digital fabrication and distributed manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132599854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community service engineering interdisciplinary engagement of engineering with the field of social work","authors":"I. Vervoort, J. Dekelver, J. Engelen, J. Vandewalle","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177900","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a multi campus, multidisciplinary curriculum for graduated engineers. Focus is placed on the societal role of engineering and the potential added value of technology for organisations in the social profit sector and for vulnerable groups in society that are the target public of these social profit organisations. The paper first demonstrates the role engineers have to play in the social sector by shortly presenting some best practice examples: an app that supports people with intellectual disabilities, a side table fitting the needs of elderly, a communication platform for people unable to read or write, etc.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128157352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experiences from a Master's Degree in Assistive Technology for Independent Living","authors":"J. Abascal, Nestor Garay-Vitoria, L. Gardeazabal","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177896","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Master's Degree in Assistive Technology for Independent Living taught by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). The main objective of this master's degree is to train professionals to be able to prescribe, adapt, maintain and monitor the use of Assistive Technology to enable the social integration of people with disabilities and elderly people. In this way, graduates are given suitable training in order to be able to propose a range of original solutions with which to overcome barriers caused by disabilities and aging, and to help people with restrictions to achieve more independent living. It is hoped that graduates will be contracted by industries wanting to employ people with disabilities, institutions providing support to people with restrictions, or administrations fighting against social exclusion. Students come from technological, social and health areas. One of the conclusions of this experience was that we found that the mixture of backgrounds provides valuable experience for working in multidisciplinary teams and that practical work with users and professionals is fundamental for the professional training of the graduates.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123331554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Higher Education Institutions as international hubs in community service engineering innovation networks a European Lifelong Learning Program project","authors":"S. Hallenga-Brink, I. Vervoort","doi":"10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENGINEERING4SOCIETY.2015.7177897","url":null,"abstract":"In the Lifelong Learning Project `Community Service Engineering (CSE)' six European partners work on engineering curricula specifically in the social domain. Engineering educators and the social domain do not typically speak the same language, which leaves a lot of innovation potential amongst student projects untouched. The main goal of the collaboration is to design an international post-graduate course and graduate and undergraduate electives in Community Service Engineering, with an international and blended learning component. In the network economy Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) form a hub in research and development for societal innovation and transformation. Vulnerable groups in society can benefit from this, when future engineers give them and their unmet needs special attention. For this the Community Service Engineering (CSE) project works on defining a CSE curriculum and educational framework based on CDIO principles. Increasing effectiveness of education by providing authentic and activating learning environments are parts of the formula the CSE project focuses on. A combination of push and pull mechanisms can be set up in two ways between the technological enterprises, the social domain and HEIs. In these networks education can shift from teaching students to reinvent the wheel time and again in an artificial setting to letting them participate in interdisciplinary co-creation in an authentic learning environment, solving real problems in transformation research. HEIs can facilitate and monitor the learning processes of students and teaching staff. By using a joint digital platform for blended learning and building thematic digital repositories around CSE, HEIs can join forces in an international setting, and work in a bigger context around local and unique innovation challenges in order to make society more inclusive for vulnerable groups.","PeriodicalId":275178,"journal":{"name":"2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122038030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}