Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS (Memory Aiding Prompting System) Stefan Carmien June 14 th 2001

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Cognitively disabled individuals are often unable to live on their own because of their inability to consistently do normal domestic tasks like cooking, taking medications, personal hygiene. Prompting systems provide a learning tool to acquire skills and ‘scaffolding’ for daily life. A portable tool that provides multi-modal prompting and allows easy creation of new scripts will extend current one-on-one prompting systems. Device rejection is the fate of a large percentage of purchased ACC and Assistive technology Similarly users (caretakers) report difficulties in configuring/modifying configurations in assistive technology that often lead to abandonment.

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder ‘Manual’ prompting systems – Adams 12 transition team and many others train with and teach prompting steps We have copies of many prompting scripts for single tasks – these will be used as seeds for the project and as pointers to what is really needed. Existing prompting systems

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Existing prompting systems Computationally based tools : Static PC based systems: Visions uses stationary touch screens and speakers to prompt thru complex domestic tasks like cooking, and sets of cards to assist away-from-the-system tasks like groceries shopping PDA based prompting tools and general assistants Pocket Coach, a CE PDA based audio instuction promting system developed by Ablelink, an assistive technology R & D company in Colorado. ( Isaac – the Swedish PDA system in the early 90’s ( ) PEAT –CE based prompting system ( Existing tools may work but are difficult to configure and maintain BVSD assistive technologysy teams experiience with AAC devices The Visions installation here in Boulder

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Existing research Prompting studies by Lancioni and others Assistive technology design guide by Thomas King Augmentative and Alternative Communication by Beukelman & Mirenda ASSETS proceedings Interviews with local experts: CU professors (Richardson, Yoshinaga-Itano….) Professionals in the field (BVSD, Adams 12……)

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder The CLever/L3d approach – MAPS Involve all users – the cognitively disabled user, the caretaker, the Assistive technologist Design a tool to create solutions – equal focus on the prompt user and caretaker (the script creation tool) Design in community involvement – repositories of scripts that can be shared, extended. Use of logging enables adaptive prompting, caretaker feedback, research

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS design Primary goal is not to be left in a closet. We would prefer to create a small tool that does one thing well and has high adoption and reuse than a large multifunction tool that is not used. In this sense the design challenge is not with respect to function but rather to usability. Start out by doing one simple thing very well, then attempt wider functionality

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Color palm device with sound module, snap-in camera for creating scripts PC front end integrated with camera and microphone for easy script creation Design and extensive testing with all stakeholders: MAPS users, caretakers, professionals Expect simple prototype for user testing this summer MAPS design

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Demo here

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Possible MAPS Extensions & Collaborations MAPS extensions – first tie into visions system, then other CLever applications: I-mail, Spyder…. Bus stop scenario – personalized interface for “intelligent Bus Stop” Smart wallet – provide safe scaffolding for daily cash transactions Panic button – RF or IR interaction with environment at ‘info spots’ Scheduler – prompter (i.e. appointments, medication etc) EDC front end for script creation – tangible path for bus trips with automatic waypoint cue list generation

Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS researchers - Stefan Carmien Shin'ichi Konomi