Cognitive Levers (CLever): Helping People Help Themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS (Memory Aiding Prompting System) Stefan Carmien July 19, 2002

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Existing Research & Context Persons with cognitively impairments are often unable to live on their own because of inability to consistently do normal domestic tasks like Cooking Taking medications Using public transportation Prompting techniques used as tools For learning (adapt yourself) For living (adapt your environment)

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Existing Research & Context - 2 Existing prompting systems and studies of prompting & assistive technology design: Hand’ prompting systems – Adams 12 transition team and many others Computationally based tools: Stationary computer based prompting systems such as Picture Coach and it’s spin-offs PDA based prompting tools and general assistants – Ablelink and Isaac Existing tools may work but are difficult to configure and maintain Prompting studies Assistive technology design guide by Thomas King and AAC text by Beukelman & Mirenda

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Goals and L 3 D Challenge Adoption / Abandonment hurdle Avoiding: I’ve got a theory I’ve got a cousin MAPS three foci Precision Repair / Tracking Persistence / Sharing What can L3D bring to table Working with symmetry of ignorance Community / cooperative design Focus on users not artifact

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Design Points PDA – portable & multifunction Database – used across CLever projects Wireless – extendable but …. Panic – levels When system guesses you are off track When you are lost When system fails Context / Dynamic (bus coming) Scripts – persistent and shareable Logging – Adaptive (short term & panic) Research (long term studies)

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder Demo here

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Integration with CLever CLever Database initiative One shared schema so we can all talk & easily cooperate Mobility for All User platform PITABoard Front end for Mobility for All trip Scripts Lifeline Monitoring system Integrate the pieces with respect to institutional caregivers

CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to help people help themselves Center for LifeLong Learning & Design University of Colorado at Boulder MAPS – Recent & Current Work Collaborative data schema design Scenarios and Abstractions The central notion of error trapping and recovery Panic collection research & design Scenarios Existing literature search Simple connection testing Develop structure of levels Human testing with simple scripts Wireless prototypes (PitaBoard, Pebbles etc.) Continued collaboration (BVSD, Imagine! (DDC), Mobility for All, PITABoard, Abletech, Memory project…. Etc.)