MAPS
(Memory Aiding
Prompting
System)
Stefan Carmien
July 19, 2002
Cognitive Levers (CLever):
Helping 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 L3D 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
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• 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.)
CLever: Building Cognitive
Levers to help people help
themselves
Center for LifeLong Learning & Design
University of Colorado at Boulder