TY - GEN
T1 - Design, adoption, and assessment of a socio-technical environment supporting independence for persons with cognitive disabilities
AU - Carmien, Stefan Parry
AU - Fischer, Gerhard
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - A significant fraction of persons with cognitive disabilities are potentially able to live more independently with the use of powerful tools embedded in their social environment. The Memory Aiding Prompting System (MAPS) provides an environment in which caregivers can create scripts that can be used by people with cognitive disabilities ("clients") to support them in carrying out tasks that they would not be able to achieve by themselves. To account for the great diversity among clients, MAPS was developed as a metadesign environment, empowering the caregivers to develop personalized prompting systems for the specific needs of individual clients. This paper is focused on the lessons learned addressing adoption, learning, use, and abandonment of sociotechnical environments fitting the unique needs of people with cognitive disabilities.
AB - A significant fraction of persons with cognitive disabilities are potentially able to live more independently with the use of powerful tools embedded in their social environment. The Memory Aiding Prompting System (MAPS) provides an environment in which caregivers can create scripts that can be used by people with cognitive disabilities ("clients") to support them in carrying out tasks that they would not be able to achieve by themselves. To account for the great diversity among clients, MAPS was developed as a metadesign environment, empowering the caregivers to develop personalized prompting systems for the specific needs of individual clients. This paper is focused on the lessons learned addressing adoption, learning, use, and abandonment of sociotechnical environments fitting the unique needs of people with cognitive disabilities.
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Cognitive disabilities
KW - Distributed intelligence
KW - End-user development
KW - Ethnographic methods
KW - Independence
KW - Meta-design
KW - Socio-technical environments
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/57649155427
U2 - 10.1145/1357054.1357151
DO - 10.1145/1357054.1357151
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57649155427
SN - 9781605580111
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 597
EP - 606
BT - 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings, CHI 2008
T2 - 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008
Y2 - 5 April 2008 through 10 April 2008
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