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CATPro: context-aware task prompting system with multiple modalities for individuals with cognitive impairments

Published: 13 October 2008 Publication History

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Difficulties in executing daily living tasks hamper the quality of life of many individuals with cognitive impairments who are otherwise physically mobile. For example, an adult with mental disorder may want to lead a more independent life and be capable of getting trained and keeping employed, but may experience difficulty in using public transportation to and from the workplace. Task prompting systems for the cognitively impaired have been developed for skill training of activities of daily living. Recently, supported employment programs targeted for people transitioning from institutional to community care have created more demand of cognitive aids to increase their workplace independence.
One of the key research issues in task prompting is the timing of the prompts. Put it in more precise terms, researchers are faced with challenges of when, where, and how the prompts are delivered to the users. By bringing context awareness to handheld prompting devices, reducing cognitive load on users, and eliminating the need of shadow teams as "wizards", people with cognitive impairments can have the prompting experiences in easier and more comfortable ways.
In collaboration with NGOs dedicated to supported employment programs, a novel Context-Aware Task Prompting system (CATPro) is presented in this research to increase work and life independence for cognitive-impaired patients such as people with traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
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ISBN:9781595939760
DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. cognitive disability
  2. task prompting
  3. ubiquitous computing
  4. user interface

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