MAPS
(Memory Aiding
Prompting
System)
Stefan Carmien
June 14th 2001
Cognitive Levers (CLever):
Helping People Help
Themselves
Center for LifeLong Learning &
Design
University of Colorado at Boulder
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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.
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Prompting systems provide a learning tool to acquire skills and ‘scaffolding’ for
daily life.
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A portable tool that provides multi-modal prompting and allows easy creation of
new scripts will extend current one-on-one prompting systems.
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Device rejection is the fate of a large percentage of purchased ACC and Assistive
technology
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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
Existing prompting systems
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‘Manual’ prompting systems –
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Adams 12 transition team and many others train with and teach prompting
steps
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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.
Cognitive Levers (CLever):
Helping People Help
Themselves
Center for LifeLong Learning &
Design
University of Colorado at Boulder
Existing prompting systems
Computationally based tools:
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Static PC based systems:
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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
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Pocket Coach, a CE PDA based audio instuction promting system developed by
Ablelink, an assistive technology R & D company in Colorado.
(http://www.ablelinktech.com)
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Isaac – the Swedish PDA system in the early 90’s
(http://www.certec.lth.se/english/isaac/index.html )
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PEAT –CE based prompting system (http://www.brainaid.com)
Existing tools may work but are difficult to configure and maintain
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BVSD assistive technologysy teams experiience with AAC devices
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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
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Prompting studies by Lancioni and others
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Assistive technology design guide by Thomas King
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication by
Beukelman & Mirenda
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ASSETS proceedings
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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
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Involve all users – the cognitively disabled user, the
caretaker, the Assistive technologist
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Design a tool to create solutions – equal focus on the
prompt user and caretaker (the script creation tool)
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Design in community involvement – repositories of scripts
that can be shared, extended.
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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
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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.
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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
MAPS design
• 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
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
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MAPS extensions – first tie into visions system, then other CLever
applications: I-mail, Spyder….
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Bus stop scenario – personalized interface for “intelligent Bus Stop”
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Smart wallet – provide safe scaffolding for daily cash transactions
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Panic button – RF or IR interaction with environment at ‘info spots’
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Scheduler – prompter (i.e. appointments, medication etc)
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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
Cognitive Levers (CLever):
Helping People Help
Themselves
Center for LifeLong Learning &
Design
University of Colorado at Boulder