Assistive Technology - Science topic

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Is contradiction an extension of tool qua weapon (矛盾)?

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Gary cane, I am interested sir.

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75% reported prevalence of recognition of TT control.

See below for details & prototype development:

Sharing with you a paper published at empower 2018 conference, conducted by IIT Delhi. Hopefully, it gives you a few insights.

EFFICACY OF ASSISTIVE DEVICES IN TERMS OF

BALANCE AND GAIT EFFICIENCY IN GERIATRIC

PATIENTS WITH LOCOMOTOR IMPAIRMENTS:- A

LITERATURE REVIEW

First Author

Yashika kumar

Assistant professor of prosthetics and orthotics

Indian spinal injury center –Institute of Rehabilitation sciences

Vasant kunj Delhi

Check this :

Velázquez, R., 2010. Wearable assistive devices for the blind. In Wearable and autonomous biomedical devices and systems for smart environment (pp. 331-349). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Good question. Remember, 4IR is about digitised dynamical systems. That is, things and people interconnected, digitised and fast-moving. So, the education system must emphasize analytics and appreciate sociology. Call it interdisciplinarity.

This one converts text into speech.

Interesting question...However, the way forward is to keep looking for new economic models that would offer everybody a fair shot. People should also consider being adaptive and continue to acquire new skills and advanced knowledge so they can have this fair shot in a highly competitive job market.

Hi,

if I understand your experiment, you want to send the generated data using a serial port. The RS232 mentioned by you has its own protocol. The start and stop bit do not the transmitted data. The workflow of the RS232 port generates these bits themselves and, on the receiving side, the receiver protocol again removes the start and stop bits from the transmitted data.

The problem may be the speed of data generation and RS232 bandwidth (limited speed).

You can compare the input and output data of your experiment with the XOR circuit. If the coincident input and output bits are different, the XOR circuit will generate logic output 1. If you divide the number of logic 1 at the XOR output by the number of tranferred bits, you get the percentage of error tranferred bits.

thank you Joby Titus sir..useful information

I feel you should have attached the correction to your original question ... As to the correction, I think it's not clear if this was just a printing error in the publication or an error of derivation, propagated into the calculations.

According to Harrison, your parameters should result in k = 0.036. Which results do you get for k, using the erroneous equation resp. the corrected equation?

thank you so much;) this was exactly what I needed!

for those who follow this question, read this: http://www.color-management-guide.com/calibrate-tablets-smartphones.html

Dear RIfki.

MDLC atau SDLC hanya konsep saja. Tidak harus menggunakan konsep tersebut. Konsep tersebut termasuk dalam software engineering dimana tahapan pembuatan software dibagi menjadi beberapa tahap.  Kegunaan dari tahapan tersebut adalah untuk memastikan delivery software minim bugs dan semua bagian (animator, deisgner, dan programmer) bekerja dalam scopenya masing-masing.

Jika yang membuat aplikasi hanya 1 atau 2 orang mungkin tidak diperlukan tetapi jika yang membuat aplikasi terdiri dari banyak tim maka perlu strategi khusus agar setiap tim dapat bekerja secara maksimal.

Itu pendapat saya, semoga bermanfaat.

Salam 

My answer is NO.  There is no substitute for the classical (traditional) way of learning how to program by first learning program logic, algorithmic reasoning, automata, writing pseudocodes and flow diagrams, etc., etc. These are the foundational elements of computer programming - if the foundation is weak, any castle will crumble no matter how strong its fortress walls. Be patient, learning how to program the right way takes time.  

Thank you for your input Donna. I certainly appreciate it! Right now I am focused on discovering any correlations that may exist between the OA and the VdTMoCA. For this particular study I will use the Relative Mastery Measurement scale and the Creative Participation Assessment.

I like the idea of conducting further studies using additional measures in order to solidify validity and reliability.

Thank you again!

Joseph Noack, OTR

PhD Student, Texas Woman's University

Thanks. Very helpful.

You might want to question the people involved in the IT system? Some of them have been given projects that they can not even complete on time. Do we need to continue to employ such? Did we employ them on merit? 

Thanks again Sir. Mainly I want to measure the impact of Virtual reality on conceptual understanding and science process skill by blind students. As reviewing literature what i learn is that teaching science concept to blind students are difficult due to its abstract nature,but in the mean while it is also true that blind people have disability of eye not the mind and so have the same mental process but they see the world differently. I want to teach science subject to blind students with the use of Virtual reality technology, and it is difficult for me to choose appropriate Virtual Reality technology which works for both blind and low vision children and up to what level science can be understand by blinds.

Hey Krisryn, 

We use the SMI Eye-Tracking glasses but they might be something too big and heavy for toddlers. I think the glasses are suitable for children aged 3 and over. The advantage is that the glasses are more or less calibration-free.

Evenson, K. R., Goto, M. M., & Furberg, R. D. (2015). Systematic review of the validity and reliability of consumer-wearable activity trackers. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 12, 159. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0314-1

Hello Jesus:

You may be interested in this thesis: 

And these websites:

Best regards

Tulio:

We are currently involved in a project with ISWP looking at integration of WHO training materials into academic curricula in more- and less-resourced contexts. You could find out more about this by contacting Mary Goldberg (University of Pittsburgh) mgoldberg@pitt.edu or Paula Rushton (University of Montreal) paula.rushton@umontreal.ca

Cheers

Thank you very much for raising this valuable and inspiring question that also has attracted my research attention recently. Digital literacy has not yet been fully recognized as field for inclusion and special education. For an evidence-based and data driven inclusion to be achieved, intelligent learning and behaviour  assessments and adaptive intervention systems are needed at schools. I am greatly looking forward to discuss the opportunities for such a research endeavour. Best regards, morena

Consider Abacus if some one knows how to utilize it then it will become mental exercise for them to develop mathematical abilities. 

Secondly use vending machines where we put coins and we get candies it will also enhance their mathematical ability.

There are lots of example (beispiel)  in the present world i mentioned few.

From what I have read on topic so far, the robots are not yet ready to fully autonomously function in complex social environments with a lot of possible emergencies and exceptions. There are just too many things that could go wrong and are hard to foresee. Therefore,  using autonomous robots as nurses and doctors is not really feasible yet.

Autonomous and semi-autonomous surgical equipment might be another story, but as you mentioned, there are ethical and responsibility issues. So far the community is still trying to figure out what to do with these issues, so I would not expect a wide acceptance of such devices before there is a common agreement about these issues.

Try this article:

Douglas, K. H., Ayres, K. M., Langone, J., & Bramlett, V. B. (2011). The effectiveness of electronic text and pictorial graphic organizers to improve comprehension related to functional skills. Journal of Special Education Technology, 26(1), 43-56. Retrieved from http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/863236728?accountid=14872

I think it is an interesting challenging question. But I do not have high experience in this issue, because I am a young lecturer. Thank you for sharing your question. Surely I will learn a lot form pursuing the responds of sophisticated RG members.

Regards,

Mehdi

ARASAAC, PECS?.  

I suggest you to read this: Any questions...let me know.

Does anyone know of a good assessment tool to use with individuals with cognitive impairments regarding their sense of well-being and/or life quality? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_know_of_a_good_assessment_tool_to_use_with_individuals_with_cognitive_impairments_regarding_their_sense_of_well-being_and_or_life_quality#56bd31476143258e978b4575 [accessed Feb 12, 2016].

I did not see your entire question for some reason, but you may wish to know that I express my views on the best application (strengths, weaknesses, and optimal use) of each sensory system for conveying self-motion and/or looming, and I think that paper may be relevant to your interesting question.

The paper is:

Lawson, B. D. (2014). Tactile Displays for Cueing Self-Motion and Looming: What Would Gibson Think?. Advances in Cognitive Engineering and Neuroergonomics, 11, 3.

[...but it is not only about tactile displays]

Access options include:

1) Check on my ResearchGate to see if it is there;

2) Open my Recent Publications list on ResGate to get my email and I will send it to you that way once you email me.

3) Try looking inside a google book...

4) I don't usually mess w/ ResearchGate that much at work, so sending it to your privately via ResGate should be the last option.

Hope this helps!

Thanks dear Marko!

The following link may be helpful:

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com.tr/2011/09/25-incredible-assistive-technologies.html 

Contamination of your gDNA PCR reaction with your cDNA can be another reason. If so, work on the PCR independently and see what happens. Anyway, if no contamination, may design different primers as have been suggested.

Other paper from Japan is here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13177-009-0002-0#page-1 

We have used remote access to manipulate tools and IDEs remotely and a system to manage message exchanging, class organization,... In our solution is also possible to share screen among any two participants of a lab.

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a structured method to extract quantitative parameters from qualitative user requirements. It helps to prioritise the parameters to produce justified decisions. In this case, the network selection.

Whereas, QoS is a quantitatively measured performance of network. Specifically, the performance perceived by the users of the network.

Assistive technology Outcome Measurement System (ATOMS): http://www.r2d2.uwm.edu/atoms/

Isolating the Impact of Interventions (I3) Instrumentation

Related Reviews/Papers/Documents

Hi Helen,

great problem to solve. The critical questions to ask are quite multidisciplinary ones and not restricted to one subject area. Most likely, flexible and open approaches are needed, e.g. see our short book on people with complex conditions  (the general issues tackled in the book are much broader than the schooling question): "Educating children with complex conditions" or the work with clinical populations. To achieve inclusion with using software technology cannot only be a matter of word size or screen resolution but rather of soft factors to be defined in a SMART way.  The applied aspect to use non-material resources in a way to help improving inclusion I like in particular.

From an applied point of view, to consider the cultural perspective seems crucial, as, studying politeness in two cultures, we found telling differences and similarities when analysing forms of address, e.g. initiating the first contact between strangers might well have some likeness to situations when getting immersed in computerised communication scenarios.

Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (15). pp. 3807-3821.

If of interest, let me know. Sounds a great project for the elderly.

Kind regards,

Winand.

Many thanks to Alexandra and Peter for your kind sharing. 

Mike Kent and Kate Ellis (Curtin University) have done some very interesting research on disability and technology and are currently editing a new book on disability and social and mobile media. I've only seen the draft list of chapters but there is an entire section on disabilities, technology and education. Worth checking out their existing work and keeping an eye out for forthcoming book - think it is called 'Disability and Social Media' 

Using PubMed,  try combined MeSH, and/or MeSH/natural language searches.  And then take a look at related records, making sure that you select Relevance as your major sort function.

Then take those articles that are relevant and then run a cited reference search/related records in Web of Science.

One quick search in PUbMed:  ("Self-help devices"[MeSH]  OR "assistive technology") AND ("Persistent Vegetative State/rehabilitation"[Mesh] OR "consciousness disorders/rehabilitation"[MeSH]).  The use of /rehabilitation targets only those articles that have rehab as a subject heading.

Retrievals include 

Promoting adaptive behavior in persons with acquired brain injury, extensive motor and communication disabilities, and consciousness disorders.

Technology-based intervention to help persons with minimally conscious state and pervasive motor disabilities perform environmentally relevant adaptive behavior.

Microswitch technology and contingent stimulation to promote adaptive engagement in persons with minimally conscious state: a case evaluation.

Two persons with severe post-coma motor impairment and minimally conscious state use assistive technology to access stimulus events and social contact.

Hi Merisa, George -

Some good points here, and I'm not sure I have a good solution. I might have to go away and have a good think about it, but here are my initial thoughts, scrappy though they may be!

Social acceptability is clearly important - and is tied up with much wider issues than just design. Some of it is around self-identity, and when a change in capability hits your sense of who you are and your place in the world, it's not easy to find an appropriate design solution.

In some senses, I think of this as the difference between accessibility and inclusivity - I think of the former as an objective, phsyical or cognitive issue (can I perform the action that I want to perform?), and the latter as a social issue (am I included in the activities I want to do?). That may or may not be a good definition (and I'd be happy to here other views), and certainly play is a great example - just making a game accessible doesn't mean that a child will be included in the game, or won't be bullied or marginalised because of the wider social attitudes. Designers can do a certain amount to design out "toxic" behaviours, but it'll always be a moving target, and emotional attitudes and stigmas can change over time, and in different contexts, which makes them doubly hard to address. Sometimes, we aren't even aware of our prejudices, either.

I certainly take the point regarding the risks involved in mainstreaming AT, and I guess it's an area that goes beyond the design of a single item. There's the risk that as those with more minor impairments are able to use mainstream devices, they are better included, but those who can't are even more marginalised. Or that devices won't be funded, because they are seen as being a luxury (in some cases, funders will provide a £6000 specialist AT system, but not a £500 iPad because an iPad is useful even if you don't have an impairment), and you may end up with stuff that is physically/cognitively accessible - but not economically accessible. And then there's the issue of funding device development - if developers of AT lose a chunk of their income from people shifting away towards more mainstream devices, then again, those who can't use the mainstream devices will find themselves footing the bill one way or another.

Was that the kind of thing you were thinking of, Merisa?

Regards,

Ray

We use LMS system developed by Turkish colleauges, however, I support open access and use social media YouTube, iTune etc to save lecture videos so every one can benefit. Open Courseware platforms such as MIT, Coursera , MOOC  can be used for saving the lecture videos, and also some other LMS such as Schoolgy, Edumodo veya Instructure Canvas can be used for LMS. 

However, New information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide educators and learners with an innovative learning environment to stimulate and enhance the teaching and learning process. We work in the university with digital Natives who have been borned with New media and New Technologies, we are introducing the tools that they use in their normal days and relationships. This generation of students thinks and learns differently than any generation that has come before.  We  analyze the new possibilities implied in introducing social networks as an educational tool and thus demonstrate the efficiency of New Technologies in the academic work. We will introduce social media collaborative tools in the classrooms creating a site in Facebook where students can watch the class live online, interact with the instructor. This is what I highly recommend to every professor who is teaching digital natives.

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook are one of the latest examples of communications technologies that have been widely adopted by students and, consequently, have the potential to become a valuable resource to support their educational communications and collaborations with faculty.

Social media offer a variety of ways for students to become involved with their universities. 

There should be no more distance education and face-to-face education separately.  All regular classes should be blended, it must be both at the same time. It must be eLive classes which can be watched live by other students who are not physically in the class, but do not want to miss the class, join the class from wherever he/she is and should be able to ask question to the instructor during the class which is live streamed to YouTube or Facebook.

Have you looked at bench marks for technology programs accreditation criteria from other institutions. Check out national accreditation schools and go from there

Most of clinical BCIs for patients is still in the phase of research (see e.g. DECODER project). Moreover there are problems in BCIs application in patients with complete locked-in syndrome (CLIS).

Hello,

Andras gave the good answer: it totally depends on what do you mean by "mathematics". Simple maths can be efficiently processed through screen reader and speech synthesis, but mathematics have a bidimentional notation which generate a lot of problems for visually impaired. A voice (like braille notation) gives a single dimensional representation of mathematics, as for music or chemistry. There are two main challenges: providing a good spoken sentence as close as possible to natural language, AND supporting interactions with formulas to help visually impaired people to UNDERSTAND the formulas, not only to have access to the content of formulas. There are several project in these field, as mentioned by Andras, Gopal or Alistair. You could additionally have a look at the MAWEN project (D.Archambault, K.Miesenberger, et al.). For math support in Braille (but for me the issues are very closed), you may check Heumader et al, Mascret et al(;-)), Archambault et al., ... Look at the procedings of the last ICCHP conference in Linz (and former ICCHP).

Best regards,

Bruno

Contact my colleague Andrew Sixsmith, Director of the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada about a simplified music player for persons with dementia. Also watch for a forthcoming book edited by Sixsmith and Gutman, to be published shortly by Springer, that has chapters with info relevant to your question.

I was thinking of something like the remote control interface to get a mouse pointer so that someone who can't touch the screen can select an app. Maybe I am using the wrong term since this seems to be similar to multitouch.

Dr. Leroy Hood is the best example of this cross-discipline approach and he talks at some length about it here:

I've had the great good pleasure of meeting Dr. Hood and we've all been beneficiaries of his DNA sequencing miracles and medical advancements.