Socio-Technical Environments Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities
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Abstract
Coleman Institute) develops socio-technical environments to support caregivers and persons with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers. Our socio-technical environments are designed to allow people with disabilities to perform tasks that they would not be able to accomplish unaided. The objective is to make people more independent by assisting them to live by themselves, use transportation systems, interact with others, and perform a variety of domestic tasks. CLever’s goal is to create more powerful media, technologies, and communities to support new levels of distributed intelligence. This paper focuses on distributed intelligence as a conceptual framework for the design and development of socio-technical environments. It describes three specific environments that we have developed over the last six years, including: (1) human-centered public transportation systems; (2) end-user development environments for prompting systems needed in this environment; and (3) monitoring systems to integrate technical and human components to create safe and reliable environments. The technologies developed in the CLever project will be broadly available as dual-use technologies applicable to a broad variety of different application areas (specifically for aging populations).