(Please excuse multiple postings; please distribute to students and colleagues.) The Rehabilitiation Engineering Research Center on Advancing Cognitive Technologies is conducting a student design competition, with a first prize of $5000, over the coming year. Examples of appropriate projects include: Improvement in accessibility of information on the World Wide Web for persons with cognitive disabilities. Memory aids for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Automated monitoring and coaching to help a person with a brain injury follow accepted conversation patterns. Aids for using public transportation. Prompting systems for work or daily life tasks. Interfacing an augmentative or alternative communication device, usable by a person with a cognitive disability, to a smartphone or email client. An email client or Web browser usable by a person with a cognitive disability. A communication device that helps a person with a cognitive disability stay in touch with friends, family, or care givers. Educational games usable by a person with a cognitive disability. Please note that these are only examples; entrants are encouraged to respond to needs they identify, using their creativity. The competition is open to students who are enrolled in accredited institutions of higher learning. Please see the details of the competition at http://rerc-act.org// NewsAndEvents/index.cfm?page=StudentDesignCompetition Clayton Lewis Professor of Computer Science Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities University of Colorado http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------