Assistive Technology in Bhimavaram, India

From July 19th to July 27th, Professor Alan Rux, David Harrington and Erin Webster traveled to the Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women in Bhimavaram, India. During this visit we help teach the girls about Assistive Technology, help them find clients and start developing solutions and choosing projects for individual clients.


Three different facilities were visited. The first was a School for the Blind. In the above picture you can see a blind student showing off a project that was developed by SVECW last year, and E-Stick, and she is using it to help get around. The E-Stick is a standard cane with a sonar distance sensor mounted to it to help detect obstructions sooner than the standard cane would.
Another facility that was visited was a small business that specializes in prosthetic limbs. At this facility we were given a demonstration on how some of the prosthetic limbs work and how they are made.We also visited a School for the Deaf. Here the students interacted with the children and at each of these facilities the girls from SVECW searched for individuals that they could help make their lives better. Some of the projects that came from these visits were specialized speech learning systems, improved E-Stick that also detects drops in elevation, and communication systems. Each of these devices are going to be custom designed to the individuals who the project is being constructed for.