Computing students and professionals are involved in a diverse variety of interesting projects. Check out the sorts of activities you could be involved with if you have a career in computing.
You could:
- Develop a robotic arm to help people with physical disabilities reach for objects on a table or shelf or an exoskeleton that helps people with physical disabilities walk.
- Create a web-based screen reader like WebAnywhere that provide blind web users equal access to the web from any computer without requiring the installation of special, expensive software.
- Build a robot controlled wirelessly through thoughts and facial gestures.
- Help computers learn to automatically recognize American Sign Language.
- Explore ways to help people with motor impairments type accurately when they use computers.
- Develop an application for cell phones that lets riders know when to expect the next bus.
- Build a crowdsourcing tool to allow people with visual impairments use their cell phones to get answers to simple questions.
- Develop, build, and program any machine your imagination can dream up through paper mechatronics.
- Help research brain drones that can be controlled and moved just by thinking.
- Build smart headlights that react to the scene ahead of the car.
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