Collegami! Is a project developed by the
Sinapsi Center of the University of Naples Federico II and aimed to support the
communication of students with heavy mobility restrictions and with speech
difficulties.
Social inclusion is a fundamental feature
of advanced communities and the contrast to marginalization is increasingly
seen as a personal growth tool.
This project’s mission is to provide
individualized tools for students with
heavy mobility restrictions and with speech difficulties, implementing innovative
technologies from prototypes development experiences.
A prototype 0 already exists thanks to the
contribution of S., who will be graduated soon: this technology not only
assists him in the study process, but also in life outside university by the
use of a computer.
In the first phase the project will focus
on S., after developing and validating the prototype , parametric models of the
tool will be available which will be adapted to the individual anthropometric
characteristics of future users.
S. will personally test the developed tool
in real life situations, giving feedbacks that will allow the developers to
improve the prototype.
The project development approach is
participatory and focused on the student to avoid the risk of failure and to improve
the prototype.
According to the latest guidelines, the
team follows the development of the tool from the first steps, individuating
the possible problems and the strength points: they identify the needs of the
student, both the required and the latent ones, aiming to transform them into
parameters, to calculate the state of the project and to avoid the risk of
failure.
ADM is a non-profit scientific association
founded in 1974, with the aim of developing and coordinating scientific
education and research on drawing, technical communication, innovation and
project methods and development for industrial products.
The birth point of ADM was the need for a
study and a continuous update of technical communication forms, both graphical
and non-graphical, that the technology advancement requires.
From
29th may the crowdfunding campaign is active at:
https://www.meridonare.it/progetto/collegami.