Information & Events:

2006-2007 Student Design Competition Winners Announced

We thank all the teams who submitted designs into our 2006-2007 competition, and we are pleased to announce the winners! Visit our Year 4 Student Design Competition page to read more about each category and to view the winning designs. Also check out the list of the teams who entered the 2005-2006 competition (including links to websites produced by each team).

Video Clips Now Available

Click here to view our representative sample of video clips showing access barriers experienced by subjects with various disabilities. We currently have video clips posted for the following equipment:

More video clips will be added as our studies are completed.

Meetings of Interest

Visit this page for a listing of various meetings of interest, including links to sponsoring societies, links to general information pages for the meetings, dates, locations, abstract deadlines, and brief descriptions of the perspective audiences. If you would like another meeting added to this list, please email us with the details of the meeting.

Completed PhD Dissertation and MS Thesis Projects

Xin (Tyre) Feng (PhD Dissertation, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 04/07): "Upper-extremity Performance Assessment Using an Interactive, Personalized Computer-Assisted Motivating Neurorehabilitation Framework" - see also highlights of the UniTherapy project, part of Program D3 and specificially Project D3.1.

Elizabeth Omiatek (MS Thesis, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 04/07): "Designing an Accessible Ergometer for People with Disabilities" - this project is part of Program D2 and it uses the MU-Lab technology.

Melissa Lemke (MS Thesis, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 11/05): “The Evaluation of Three Alternative Methods for Understanding Biomechanical Aspects of Medical Device Accessibility: Mobile Usability Lab Pre- and Post-Activity Questionnaires, Mobile Usability Lab Multimedia Video Task Analysis, and Medical Equipment Device–Accessibility and Universal Design Information Tool” - see also highlights of this project, part of Program D1 with contributions to Program R2 and Program R3.

Pawan Shroff (MS Thesis, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 11/05): “Algorithm to automatically generate multi-modal interfaces for hand held devices based on user preferences and abilities” - see also MedURC simualtion environment, part of Program D3 and specifically Project D3.2.

Rochelle Mendonca (MS Thesis, Occupational Therapy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 12/05): "Assessing the Usability of MED-AUDIT (Medical Equipment Device-Accessibility and Universal Design Information Tool)" - see also highlights of this project, part of Program R3, also described on the R3 project page from the R2D2 Center of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

State-of-the-Science Workshop and Book

The RERC-AMI, in partnership with the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), held our State-of-the-Science Workshop at the FDA headquarters building in Rockville MD on October 21-22, 2005, with over 60 participants. The title was "Accessible Interfaces for Medical Instrumentation: Draft Guidelines and Future Directions."

A book entitled Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations, edited by Jack M. Winters and Molly Follette Story, has been published by CRC Press. The last of the 31 chapters provide the final report of the workshop, and all but a few of the chapters come from workshop participants. The book is now available for purchase!

Informative Briefs from CDIHP:

CDIHP briefs from the Accessible Healthcare Series (part of a longer collection under Products) are available online.

Try our MedURC:

MedURC is a new simulation environment that generates personalized "on-the-fly" interfaces for target medical devices or services using the new ANSI/INCITS 389-393 User Interface Socket standards for Universal Remote Consoles.