beyond the classroom

An autistic child plays virtual jumprope with a Michigan Engineering senior.

An 11-year-old with a weakened arm stretches during a Kinect video game called Path. But she enjoys it.

A young tech-savvy cerebral palsy patient gives a computer science student tips to improve her tablet app.

These are scenes from an important phase in the development of the most promising projects to emerge from computer science and engineering instructor David Chesney's classes. Teams of students who carried ideas beyond the classroom gathered input from the people they aimed to help. Two slideshows and a video show what this process was like.

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  Slideshow: Games for autistic children Children at a summer camp test out two video games that Michigan Engineering students created as therapeutic tools.
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  Slideshow: Brachial plexus palsy therapy tools A video game developed by Michigan Engineering students could make it easier for patients to maintain their therapy regimen.
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  Video: An app for cerebral palsy patients An app for those who suffer from cerebral palsy could enable them to use tablet computers.

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