Cognitive Levers CLever:

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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
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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)

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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 its 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

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of Colorado at Boulder
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MAPS Goals and L3D Challenge

• Adoption / Abandonment hurdle
• Avoiding
• Ive got a theory
• Ive 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

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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)

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of Colorado at Boulder
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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

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help themselves
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of Colorado at Boulder
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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.)

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