DATA2600 Assistive and welfare technologies Course description

Assistive technologies - AT - are equipment, software or device used to increase, maintain or improve functional abilities for people with disabilities. Such equipment can be helpful to improve ability to take part in social activities, studies and working life, and can provide greater independence and control over one’s own everyday life.

Welfare technology is a common term for all technical installations and solutions that can improve the individual’s ability to get by in their own home, and contribute to ensuring quality of life and general well-being. Welfare technology can provide better services for elderly people living at home, patients in nursing homes, in the field of intoxicants and mental health, and people with disabilities. Welfare technology can also provide more efficient use of resources in the health and care services.

In this course you will learn how to plan, design, evaluate and test solutions within assistive and welfare technologies.

None beyond general admission requirements

Ingen ut over opptakskrav.

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Knowledge:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the most important assistive technologies and welfare technologies being used today, and have a thorough understanding of how they work.
• Command a thorough understanding of the sensory, physical and cognitive functional disabilities and its consequences for social activity.
• Be able to distinguish the human and technological prerequisites needed for technical systems to function for users with disabilities.
• Critically assess and discuss the assistive and welfare technologies in a health and societal context.

Skills:

• Be able to address the user’s different needs, and to propose and implement technological facilitation.
• Demonstrate an ability to evaluate and consider user interface in relation to the needs of a person.

General competence:

• Reflect on how technology can assist people with and without disabilities
• Understand, communicate and implement solutions for different user needs
• Reflect on ethical dilemmas related to human interaction, technology and social participation

En individuell prosjektinnlevering. 

Vurderingsresultat kan påklages.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt.

Bestått/Ikke bestått

En intern sensor. I tillegg kan ekstern sensor benyttes

Graded scale A-F.

Emnet retter seg mot personer som har behov for videreutdanning innen solceller.

Noe kjennskap til kraftproduksjon fra solceller og grunnleggende dataferdigheter (Windows), er en fordel.