The 20th Lite-On Innovation Award Competition, the world’s largest innovative design competition, was organized by Lite-On Technology and held at the Lite-On Building a few days ago. This competition explored the world of light, electricity, energy saving, and smart technology, trying to solve the most important issues of the earth with creativity.
【The team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won the Gold Medal in the Design Innovation Group with their work "HanDo Children's Living Assist Prosthetic: (from left to right) Shuan-Yan Li, Wei-Ming Gao】
This competition was divided into two major groups: Technology Innovation Group and Design Innovation Group. More than 800 teams from home and abroad signed up with the fierce. The organizer also invited a number of international companies, including Merck, Infineon, and new partner Mouser Electronics to participate in the grand event and set up special awards. Rewards were given to innovation proposals on future smart hospitals, smart cities, smart homes, and many other fields.
【A product photo of "HanDo Children's Life Assistant Prosthetics" by the team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, which won the Gold Medal in the Design Innovation Group】
In this competition, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology performed very well. It won the gold medals of two categories—Merck Special Award and Best Popularity Award—becoming the biggest winner of this Lite-On Innovation Award. Jian-Ping Su, directed by Prof. Wan-Rong Chang from the Department of Electronic Engineering, and Jia-Yi Huang and Yu-Kuan Mo, directed by Prof. Kun Ouyang from the Department of Creative Product Design, won the gold medal of Technological Innovation Group with their work "Artificial Intelligence-Based Voice Assistant System for the Voiceless."
This work is based on cooperation with Dr. Shu-Wei Tsai from the Department of Otolaryngology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, with the original intention to restore the voice of the voiceless patient and release their hands, solving the shortcomings of traditional polyphonic equipment by a wearable sounding device and voice recognition app. This system uses homemade special resonance waves to penetrate into the human body cavity to generate mechanical voice, and then use the voice recognition app to translate it into text and display it on the app with artificial intelligence technology, thereby communicating with people without any hand held device and releasing the hands of the voiceless patient.
【The team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology team won the Gold Medal of the Technology Innovation Group with their work "Artificial Intelligence-based Voice Assistant System for the Voiceless." The team includes (from left to right) Zi-Jin Yang, Jian-Ping Su, Yu-Kuan Mo, Jia-Yi Huang, Jia-Ying Zhou, and their advisor Prof. Wan-Rong Chang.】
Prof. Kun Ouyang from the Department of Creative Product Design and Prof. Wan-Rong Chang from the Department of Electronic Engineering jointly instructed students Suan-Yan Li and Wei-Ming Gao, winning the Gold Medal of Design Innovation Group with their work "HanDo Child Life Assistant Prosthetics." This work is a modularized prosthetic designed for children with unilateral limbs that is both economical and flexible. It can be converted into a kit for study, sports, entertainment and life. In addition, "HanDo Children's Life Assistant Prosthesis" also won the best popularity award in this competition. In the other group, Prof. Wan-Rong Chang of the Department of Electronic Engineering instructed students Yuan-Long Li, Yu-Lun Tu, and Jia-Hao Chen, and Prof. Kun Ouyang of the Department of Innovative Product Design instructed students Jia-Ying Chou, Jia-Yi Huang, and Shuan Lin with their work "Bed-off Warning and Bedside Fall Based on Deep Learning Edge Computing Technology.” The "Notification System" identifies and reports the situation that hospital patients may fall when they leave the bed, which won the Merck Special Award as a result.
【A product photo of the "Artificial Intelligence-based Voice Assistant System for the Voiceless" by the Team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, which won the Gold Medal of the Technology Innovation Group】
Prof. Wan-Rong Chang from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Prof. Kun Ouyang from the Department of Creative Product Design both stated that the Lite-On Innovation Award is an international competition that allows companies, individuals and students to participate. It is one of the best platforms for Taiwan’s related industry and technology. It is also a high-level competition which major startup teams and companies actively participated in. All the three entries in this competition have achieved the best results, which is an affirmation of the school's achievements in cultivating engineering and designing talents. This time their gratitude was also given to Dr. Shu-Wei Tsai from the Department of Otolaryngology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, for his cooperation and guidance in realizing the innovative product of "Artificial Intelligence x Medical Engineering x Product Design" and winning the Gold Medal.
【A product photo of "Bed-off Warning and Bedside Fall Based on Deep Learning Edge Computing Technology” by the team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, which won the Merck Special Award】
As President Deng-Maw Lu of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology stated, the Lite-On Innovation Award has entered its 20th year and has provided tens of thousands of young designers with innovative ideas in the field of science and technology and a stage to show their talents over the years. In this competition, the instructors and the students showed their best performances in cooperation, winning champions in both the "Technology Innovation Group" and the "Design Innovation Group," which affirmed the achievements of the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology in fostering students. In the future, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology will continue to invest in student project production funds, allowing students to acquire various professional and industrial application technologies during the development of their works, so that students can directly engage in the workplace and the industry seamlessly after graduation as well as better grasp the future Blueprint for development.
【A Group photo of the winning team of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology】