Projects – Humanlab Inria

Ongoing projects

Scientific mediation

Our action is also oriented towards scientific mediation with people with disabilities.
In parallel, we carry out an activity of scientific mediation and disability awareness. For example the ShoeShoe project of instrumented shoes (see above). We develop pedagogical tools to accompany teachers of middle schools and elementary school in the implementation of robotics and computer programming projects.

	Bionicohand is a do-it-yourself hand myoprosthesis with thumb abduction. HLI contributes to the electronic card development, the instrumentation to provide feedback to the user on exerted force and finger positions and to the preparation to Cybathlon 2024.
	The FrollnRoll project involves designing a contactless activation system for a power-assisted wheelchair.
	Inkredable is a tool to help people writing by generating a made to mesure orthesis that allows to handle a pen.
	3D modeling of small objects adapted to individual needs
	Télescopince is a telescopic gripper for gripping objects from a seated position for people with gripping difficulties, lack of palmar grip or lack of reach. Commercial solutions provide only a partial solution, without telescoping.
	Fit and Fun proposes to add a screen to a hand pedalboard to get feedback and make its use more interactive, in particular by equipping it with a video game whose input is the speed of the pedalboard. It is intended for the gym specialized for people with motor disabilities.
	Fit and Fun Kids is developing a catalog of interactive games, adapted to different types of physical activity and encouraging their practice.
	The project Magic Control V2 aims to develop a low cost control of electric wheelchair environment allowing to control the functions of the wheelchair and the environment of the user via the magic joystick and a low pressure joystick. The action has supervised two INPG engineers trainees to realize this V2 version
	Exofinger aims to imagine and create for – and with – Bastien, suffering from tetraplegia, a motorized thumb orthosis allowing a thumb-index wrench type grip to hold a pen. The project was launched at a “Fabrikarium” event organized by Ariane Group and MyHumanKit in October 2020. The work has been going on since then…
	Shoeshoe: Instrumented shoe for guiding visually impaired students within a school. The concept has been imagined by a class of CE1-CE2 during a Savanturiers project. Within the framework of the AEX, we are currently finalizing a functional prototype. The documentation (in french) to go further
	Watchelp: Autonomy at your fingertips We have an Android connected watch (Ticwatch Pro 3) and a free Watchelp account. We can provide the watch and accompany a few weeks of testing. This can be useful, for example, to an ergotherapist to build a MDPH request for a patient, prior to the purchase of a watch
	The goal of the READForMe project is to create a reading machine capable of acquiring text from an image capture and reading it with a voice synthesis. Powerful solutions already exist but the idea is to propose an open-source solution requiring neither smartphone nor internet connection. We contributed to the third version during the Fabrikarium 2021
	The Sound Cane project is to translate the obstacles encountered by sounds of different frequencies. This project is initiated by the MHK. The Inria Rainbow team in Rennes, involved in the Défi Dornell, supervised an INSA internship to develop this version.
	ChuChut – Volume limiter for headphones. This prototype can be adapted to any type of wired headphones in order to control the maximum volume of the sound.
	BipBip is a walking speed measurement device based on 2 detection beacons.Its presentation sheet (in french).