This course combines the technical development of a mechanical system, such as a billiard-playing robot, with agile leadership principles and aims to have a strong collaboration between students from TU and ECIU institutions collaborating in complementary roles. TU students, primarily from mechanical engineering, focus on technical aspects such as designing, prototyping and testing the striking unit. They apply their expertise in CAD, 3D printing and mechanical systems to address technical challenges. ECIU students, from disciplines like sustainability, business strategies, and user-centered design, broaden the project’s scope by ensuring solutions are technically sound, economically viable and environmentally sustainable. This collaboration reflects real-world engineering projects, where interdisciplinary and international teams solve complex challenges. 

Together as a team and through structured milestones, they develop engineering skills, such as creating precise locking mechanisms and integrating coupling systems, while applying agile methodologies to foster continuous improvement. Simultaneously, the course emphasizes leadership development by challenging students to work in interdisciplinary and international teams, reflecting the global nature of modern professional environments. By applying agile principles to real-world challenges, students enhance adaptability, collaboration and problem-solving skills. The course also aligns with New Work principles, promoting productivity, sustainability and work-life balance. As an ECIU Micro Module, this course leverages CBL to create an active, impactful learning experience.

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Hamburg University of Technology

Agile Methodologies to Engineering Design

What happens when leadership skills and the task of pushing a billiard ball a long way come together? Let's find out!

Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation

Critical and innovative thinking

Inter-personal skills

This thematic module focuses on visual accessibility in games and VR experiences. It briefly introduces basics of visual accessibility, and some of the needs of individuals with different visual needs. Next, the lecture provides two main discussion points; 1. how most games are visually inaccessible, and how some mainstream games are accidentally accessible to large extent, and, 2. how games, and especially VR, experiences can be very valuable and allow access to life experiences that visually impaired individuals can’t easily access such as diving, mountain climbing, or even being a sniper in an army.

Tampere University

Games, Gamification, Serious Games and Accessibility

Nonstop MOOC on methods and technologies for accessibility

Resilient communities

Media and information literacy

The module introduces the ways MT is being used today, specifically when it is used for 'gisting', or achieving an understanding of a text that is in a language a person does not speak themselves. The module will then focus on the various proposals and projects focused on using MT to promote linguistic accessibility.

Linguistic Accessibility and Machine Translation

Global citizenship

This thematic module covers the main principles of speech-based human-technology interaction, focusing on spoken interfaces which facilitate accessibility. Agent design for spoken interfaces. This includes both speech output (e.g., spoken prompts for people with visual disabilities) and speech input (e.g., speech control for physically disabled personnel). The students will also be introduced to different Voice Assistants and how they are being used in facilitating accessibility in the real-world.

Spoken Interfaces

The course covers the basic principles and methods of translating visual information into text. Both human-led methods and automatic technologies are introduced, including audio/video description, automatic image/video captioning and alternative texts.

Visuals to Text

The module will introduce the requirements and considerations for accessible entertainment, including going to a theater or museum, and watching a movie. As a part of this module, students will watch an accessible movie on YouTube and share their experiences in a learning diary reflecting on the many considerations and elements required to make a movie accessible to a large audience, including subtitling, audio descriptions, lighting etc.

Entertainment and Accessibility

This thematic modules Web accessibility I and II introduces guidelines and other standards related to web accessibility, such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The second module explains the web accessibility principles (POUR), but focuses on the content to make it readable and understandable, including requirements that address cognitive accessibility.

Web Accessibility II (Content)

In this module, we will look at different technologies for physical and motor rehabilitation, including exergames, virtual reality, gestures, robots and more. Examples from research and current medical practices will be described, along with their benefits and limitations. Further, trends in assistive augmentation, e.g. technologies that enable us to enhance physical, sensorial, and cognitive capabilities, will be discussed.

Rehabilitation and Assistive Augmentation

This thematic module familiarizes the student with the audiodescription (AD) of artistic products and venues of different kinds: art galleries, museums and theatre plays. The module introduces the production processes and the basic principles and guidelines for this type of AD and familiarizes the student with authentic examples of AD in museums around the world.

Audio Description of Art

Technology overall, provides a safe, controlled, predictable environment for individuals with developmental disabilities, and using gestures and haptic interaction allows input mechanisms that do not rely on traditional keyboards and mouse interfaces. In this module, several different applications of gestures-based and haptic interaction will be presented and the limitation and benefits of each will be discussed. Example applications will be a combination of those that are commercially available and those that are developed in various research projects across the world.

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