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Appendix B – Interview Summaries Mark Ficocelli - Phone Interview (9:30AM – 10:30AM) Oct. 10 th 2007 • Is an industrial designer that does a lot of private consulting and contract work in conjunction with the BVR (Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation). • Much of his work is found through places like the BVR and from word-of-mouth and is almost always with one specific case at a time. • Much of his design is mechanical that focuses on a specific need for a person with a disability. • He suggested looking into upper extremities prosthetic devices (hook hand) and considered that to be the best mass marketable idea. • He mentioned a recent case that involved a farmer who had recently lost his hand and he needed a way the hold different sized box wrenches. With his hook-hand prosthetic he was unable to keep a firm grip on the heavy wrenches. Much of the solution to this problem involved adding more rubber bands to the hooks hinge joint and using a thicker cable that ran from his prosthetic to a back brace, He was able to open and close the hook by simply flexing his back muscles. • One suggestion he mentioned for that type of project would be to buy a burlap feedbag and see if the prosthetic could open and hold a bag. He suggested 60lbs of closing pressure. • One item he stressed was to modify the man not the machine he uses. It is much more sensible to make a universal adaptor on a prosthetic for picking up different sized objects rather than making jigs or different attachments for each size. • Another item he stressed was to focus of a specific function. Much of his design is custom for the person and specific for their particular disability. It is very difficult to create a universal device to help a lot of people because there is such a wide range of unique disabilities. • Another idea was to put yourself into the disabled person’s position and see what difficulties you find. He suggested riding around in a wheelchair all day around campus or blindfolding yourself and try to navigate a building. This might help us spawn ideas. • He mentioned that wheelchair design was very specific but very marketable. Also it might help to visit a design office or firm to get a feel for a typical office space. • Patent searching is for marketing but you should understand and know about it. • Other ideas he mentioned was excursion amplifiers, back harnesses, page turners, devices to help people get dressed and to feed themselves, home modifications, work site ergonomics, rural and farming work, computer adaptation, weight distribution, body position, and seating for people in to wheelchairs, and yes even one handed chainsaws. • Sources and products he sited where the OQO (thumb board electric device) Premobile. • One ADA standard he mentioned was a 1 to 12 slope for wheelchair ramps. 52
George Platounaris - Interview (12:00PM – 1:00PM) Oct. 10 th 2007 • Is the rehabilitation vocational supervisor at the BVR. He has been working in rehabilitation consulting for close to thirty years. • The BVR is a state agency that services 10 counties out of Ohio. Annually it services 50000 people with disabilities most of which have orthopedic and metal health issues. Typically they have 850 to 1000 active customers with a whole array of disabilities. Each year RSC puts over 8000 individuals with severe disabilities to work. • One good contact he mentioned was a Linda McQuistion who is typically and is considered the main engineer for the BVR. • He also mentioned a professor at the University of Cincinnati named Howard Baum who is in industrial design who has done a lot of design for adaptive devices for people with disabilities. • He referred us to a Jerry Olsheski who is a professor in the college of education at OU who is or was chair of the department of rehabilitation counseling. • Another referral was a Mark Gold who is now deceased. During his life he worked intensely with mentally disabled people and developed a program in the 1970 called Try Another Way to help people with disabilities obtain careers. • He suggested visiting special schools or classrooms and would gladly get us in contact with facilities, machine shops, sheltered workshops, or special schools. • He suggested getting in touch with WOUB to get a story line going and get the communities interest. This could possibly lead to sponsorship or increase our funding. • He was very interested in getting in contact with Dr. Kremer (he now has his email address) to ask questions and facilitate any services he can offer. • Sources he mentioned were Clovernook and Diagnostic Hybrids which is a lab that has been recently hiring a lot of people from Personnel Plus because of the amount of manual labor. • He mentioned weekly meetings that we could definite sit in on. (I really don’t have much information about these meetings). • George seemed very eager to help us and possibly coordinate a project with us. 53
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