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On 31st of January, Alfaisal University College of Engineering hosted the concluding projects exhibition of the CoCreate 2020 fellowship program for assistive technology.<\/p>\n

In late January 2020, the\u00a0Humanistic Co-Design Initiative\u00a0<\/strong>(HCDI) launched\u00a0CoCreate Saudi Arabia<\/strong>\u00a0with a 3-day workshop event that advocated for the application of the\u00a0Humanistic Co-Design Process<\/strong>\u00a0to develop\u00a0assistive technologies<\/u><\/em>\u00a0that value the lived experience of the local community. Designed as a one-year interdisciplinary innovation fellowship program, CoCreate brought together a group of scientists and engineers from the\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<\/em>\u00a0with local innovators to collaboratively develop new assistive technologies alongside local people with disabilities (experience experts<\/em><\/p>\n

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The fellowship program lasted one year and it\u2019s a cooperative of individuals, organizations and institutions working together to increase awareness about how designers, makers, and engineers can apply their skills in collaboration with people who have disabilities through the Humanistic Co-design Process to develop new and innovative assistive technologies.<\/p>\n

+25 Projects were presented in the exhibition, and it covered different areas in assistive technologies like audio, visual, social and more<\/p>\n

Dr. Mohammad Ana, Dean of College of Engineering at Alfaisal University gave the opening remarks of the fellowship conclusion ceremony, and Dr. Abdulhamid Taha Vice Dean for Research gave a speach, alongside a group of esteemed speakers like Ms Areej Al-Wabil, Director, HCI Design Lab, and Shiroq Al-Megren Program Manager, HCDI – CoCreate Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

To Know more about the CoCreate projects, you can visit https:\/\/cocreate20.org\/cocreate20\/team-grid\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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