During our life, we are involved in a huge variety of activities that we constantly repeat associated to diverse contexts. These activities can be related to domestic routines, working tasks, everyday urban-life, and so on. Each day there are a lot of decisions to be taken, both in regular situations (e.g., "what should I have for dinner tonight?", "which clothes will I wear today?") and in unexpected ones (e.g., "the underground is not working, how will I go home now?". Choosing the right options reverts on improving our self-esteem, quality of life, and social integration. However, while some people can take this type of decisions with an insignificant effort, this task may not be easy at all for others as not everybody has the same capabilities. For example, whilst traveling in public transport can be a trivial task for some users, it can be quite hard for others (i.e., elder people, or those with cognitive limitations or motor disabilities). The same happens with most daily routines such as the ones mentioned above.
Computer systems can help to improve people’s abilities (e.g. motor, sensory, memory, reasoning, communication, social, or emotional skills among others) both when using them as assistances in daily life and when they are used as trainers. UMADR focuses on those that affect how people with special and specific needs manage on their everyday life. Some examples of expected and unexpected issues that people daily face are:
- Indoor and outdoor navigation.
- Information searching, reading and understanding.
- Daily schedule and task prioritization.
- Health and personal care.
- Cleaning habits.
- Eating habits.
- Mathematics in daily life.
- Tool and device manipulation.
- Safety and security issues.
- Working tasks.
- Sustainable habits.
- Living in society.
Since their origins, adaptive systems have focused on helping users with specific preferences and needs to learn, work or take decisions, among others. The aim of this workshop is to bring light about how adaptive methods and techniques can be used to help users (either with some kind of disability or with specific needs) to accomplish daily tasks and to take decisions both in foreseen and unforeseen situations. The main aim is to be able to give them advice through different devices (PDAs, mobile phones, laptops …) according to the context in which they are at each time, also considering their capabilities, preferences and special/specific needs at that context. Modeling user’s capabilities, limitations and needs (in the context described in this motivation) is another essential task as well.
Fecha:
11 Julio, 2011 - 15 Julio, 2011
City:
Girona - Spain Website:
