The award-winning design
Three University of Macau (UM) students from the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, received the Best Paper Award at the annual symposium of the Control, Automation and Instrumentation Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, for their paper titled ‘Advanced Car Seat Design for Extendable Barrier Free Service’. The award-winning paper is co-authored by PhD student Lin Bin and master’s students Luo Zicong and Cong Yufang, and supervised by Dr Wong Seng Fat. It proposes a new barrier-free car seat design for people with disabilities based on human factors engineering, which is controlled by mobile applications and can optimise the posture in which people with disabilities enter and exit the car. The design’s potential for industrialisation was also an important contributor to its winning the award. Held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the event attracted more than 200 experts and scholars from around the world, including experts from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom as well as engineers from Hong Kong. Participants discussed the future trends in the field of control, automation and instrumentation.
