TEDY
Programme introduction
Technologies for the Elderly and Disabled people by Youths (TEDY) is one of the education and community programmes under the Jockey Club Enhancing Youth Empathy Project through Immersive Visualisation. It aims at cultivating a stronger sense of social responsibility and empathic understanding among students for the elderly and people living with disabilities.
The programme incubates studentsʼ original ideas and innovative designs for technologies that create social innovations. By bringing students and the target beneficiaries together, custom-designed rehabilitation aids can be made to solve daily problems and improve the quality of life.
Introduction by Dr Lam Miu-ling,
Project Coordinator of TEDY
Project Coordinator of TEDY
TEDY
Team
Programme Coordinator
Dr LAM Miu-ling
Associate Professor
School of Creative Media City
University of Hong Kong
Dr LAM Miu-ling
Associate Professor
School of Creative Media City
University of Hong Kong
Project Manager
Ms Jessica LAM Pui Ying
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
Ms Jessica LAM Pui Ying
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
Project Assistant
Mr CHIM Chi Ho
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
Mr CHIM Chi Ho
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
Project Assistant
Mr HO Yik Tung
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
Mr HO Yik Tung
Office of the Vice-President
(Development & External Relations)
TEDY
Timeline
2O17
Discovery
in the community
in the community
To kick off the programme, TEDY invited students from different departments to visit various organisations that serve people with different disabilities and needs. Partnerships were formed and with their deeper understanding of the issues faced by these groups, our students brainstormed and designed assistive devices.
2O18
Research
and development
and development
In 2018, over 40 prototypes were under development in the TEDY programme, with our students working closely with different organisations and departments to construct prototype assistive devices. At the same time, TEDY hosted various workshops on prototyping techniques to equip the students with the skills they needed to succeed.
2O19
Sharing
with the community
with the community
In our final year, TEDY focused its resources on developing selected prototypes and polishing them for eventual release. We continued to work closely with organisations that would be direct beneficiaries, delivering successful prototypes into the hands of actual users. We encouraged our students to enter local and overseas design competitions, and they achieved great results and recognition across the globe.
TEDY
Prototypes
- An Electronic Guide Dog App for the Visually Impaired
- Assistive Device for Wheelchair User to Protect and Limit Arm Movement
- Assistive Device to Aid Stroke Survivor to Walk and Hold Umbrella
- Automatic Photography Assistant for Wheelchair User
- Boundary Free
- Design and Control a Leg Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation
- Document Scanning Assistant for the Visually Impaired
- Elderly Sweet Home 360
- Electric Person Lift for Transferring Wheelchair User
- Electronically Assisted Dining Table for Wheelchair User
- Handance
- Improved Bus Arrival Mobile App and Bus Signalling System
- Indoor-capable Path Tracker App for the Visually Impaired
- Interactive Meeting System for LE Day Training Centre
- Interactive Projection Games
- ISFS Glasses
- Localisation in the MTR for the Visually Impaired by Deep Learning
- Magic Surface
- Mobile App Game: Chinese Chess for Visually Impaired Users
- Mobile App Game: Mini-Scrabble for Visually Impaired Users
- Mobile App Game: Tic Tac Toe for Visually Impaired Users
- Mobile App Game: Jungle (Dou Shou Qi) for Visually Impaired Users
- Music Score Reader App for the Visually Impaired
- Pineal - Aid for Visually Impaired Bowlers
- Playground+
- Power Wheelchair Anti-Collision System
- Prosroid - Power Wheelchair Simulator
- Proximity Sensor System for Wheelchairs
- Role Playing Table Top Game to Raise Awareness about Elderly with Dementia
- See without Seeing
- Smart Medicine Box for People with Dementia
- Standing Assistive Device - Electically Assisted Sit to Stand Platform
- Talktag - NFC Audio Labeller for the Visually Impaired
- Tennis-inspired Sound-Only Game for Visually Impaired People
- Timer Tracking System for LE Day Training Centre
- Touch-to-Read - Printed Text to Voice Device
- Transformable Wheelchair
- Utility Shopping Clutch
- Water Measuring Dispenser for the Visually Impaired
- Wheelchair Battery Health Condition Monitoring Modules
- Wheelchair Single-step Climbing Attachment
TEDY
Awards and
Achievements
Achievements
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CityU Best of the Best Awards 2017
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| 2 |
International Invention Innovation Competition (iCAN) 2018
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| 3 |
CityU Best of the Best Awards 2018
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| 4 |
Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019
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| 5 |
Times Higher Education THE Awards Asia 2019 Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year - Shortlisted |
| 6 |
The 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship competitions 1st Runner-up- Talktag - NFC Audio Labeller for the Visually Impaired |
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i-CREATe 2019 The 13th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Global Student Innovation Challenge Bronze Technology - Talktag - NFC Audio Labeller for the Visually Impaired |
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4th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2019 Gold Medal(Preliminary evaluation) -Talktag - NFC Audio Labeller for the Visually Impaired |
| 9 |
iENA 2019 (International Trade Fair for Ideas, Inventions and New Products) Gold Medal (Invention, University/ College) - Prosroid: The Wheelchair Training Simulator |
| 10 |
The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA Awards) Merit (Tertiary Student - Consumer) - Prosroid: The Wheelchair Training Simulator |
