USER-CENTERED DESIGN OF LIMB PROSTHESES: A NEW UNIVERSITY COURSE DESIGNED TO SPARK INTEREST IN ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS FOR BIOENGINEERING STUDENTS
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Abstract
There is a current need to increase recruitment in orthotics and prosthetics, and a promising approach is to increase awareness, interest and cross-disciplinary engagement in O&P among students of allied disciplines such as bioengineering. We describe a new interdisciplinary course we jointly developed at the University of Pittsburgh and deployed for the first time in the spring of 2023. The course was built on core foci of human-centered design, design thinking, experiential learning, 3D printing, creative problem-solving and prototyping. We leveraged a real-world project-based learning approach that included early and ongoing involvement of student teams with clients who used prosthetics. We explored creating a learning environment in which bioengineering students were motivated to learn about the O&P field by partnering with clients to investigate their unmet prosthetic needs and invent new solutions, with computer-aided design and 3D printing as key enabling technologies. Each student team produced an individually designed and fitted device for a specific application for a person with limb difference. Student feedback was positive throughout with several recipients expressing enthusiasm about the field of O&P and about the opportunity to work with actual patients. Several students stated their new-found interest in pursuing a career in the field. We believe that this sort of class offering could be implemented in many institutions that host O&P graduate programs, to raise awareness of the profession and attract more and better prepared applicants. Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/41789/32273 How To Cite: Fiedler G, Samosky J. User-centered design of limb prostheses: a new university course designed to spark interest in orthotics & prosthetics for bioengineering students. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2023; Volume 6, Issue 2, No.2. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v6i2.41789 Corresponding Author: Goeran Fiedler, PhDDepartment of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.E-Mail: gfiedler@pitt.eduORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-1248
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".