Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom
| dc.contributor.author | Higgins, Erin L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Easley, William | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordes, Karen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hurst, Amy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hamidi, Foad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T18:29:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T18:29:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-22 | |
| dc.description | ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, October 2022 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Digital fabrication methods have been shown to be an efective method for producing customized assistive technology (AT). However, the skills required to utilize these tools currently require a high level of technical skill. Previous research showed that integration of these skills within physical therapy training is appropriate but that the level of technical difculty required can be an issue. We worked to address these issues by introducing a group of PT students to maker concepts and having them develop custom AT for real end users with the help of makers. We present three considerations when integrating making into PT curriculum: 1) including all stakeholders, 2) developing interdisciplinary competencies for PTs and makers, and 3) leveraging academic training programs to connect makers and PT students. In this paper, we contribute to knowledge on how to facilitate the 3D printing of customized ATs for PT students by connecting them with a community organization that provides digital fabrication services and technical expertise. By connecting multiple stakeholders (i.e., PT students, digital fabricators, and AT users), we ofer an approach to overcome time and capacity constraints of PT students to utilize advanced fabrication technologies to create customized ATs through connecting them to professional makers. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DRL-2005502, DRL-2005484, and EEC-1623490. We would like to thank the PT students, instructors, and clinicians from UMB who participated in our study. We would like to thank the Digital Harbor Foundation for providing the space, materials, machines, and student workers to facilitate printing the devices for this study. We would also like to thank the Adaptive Design association, the Shield, and the Ability Project, Anita Perr, Shawn Grimes, and Darius McCoy | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3517428.3544816 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2yxrp-7dry | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Higgins, Erin et al. "Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom." In Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34 (22 October 2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3544816 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3544816 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/26300 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ACM | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
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| dc.title | Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom | en_US |
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