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Assistive Technology: Tracking
Trends and Transferring Knowledge
Carolyn Phillips, Tools for Life With contributions from Martha Rust, Liz Persaud & Ben Satterfield
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February 2015
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Tools for Life Mission
We’re here to help Georgians
with disabilities gain access to
and acquisition of assistive
technology devices and assistive
technology services so they can
live, learn, work, and play
independently in the
communities of their choice.
Come Visit Us!
Guiding Principles
• We – Collectively – are Brilliant & Can find an Innovative Path and Create Brighter Futures
• We must Think, Live and Act from a place of Abundance – We have enough time, money, resources…
• We Must Focus on Abilities!
• YOU have the Power to make the Difference!
– Change vs. Progress (Bob Phillips)
• It is Not what You Start…It is what You Finish! (Bob Phillips)
Why Am I Here Today? • Master Our Skills!
• Expand Our Knowledge and
• Build Stronger Schools to Create an amazing, Inclusive and United Community!
The Neurology of My Brain
The “rate” at which you learn will become the only sustainable competition advantage you’ll have in your life.
- Peter Senge
• Visual Perception & Discrimination
• Auditory Perception & Discrimination
Key Terms Used To Describe Specific Learning Disabilities
• Dyslexia - Difficulties with learning to translate printed words into spoken words with ease
• Dysgraphia - Deficits in writing (organization, clarity, unity, mechanical errors, spelling, handwriting)
• Dyscalculia - Difficulty with numbers and/or remembering facts over a long period of time (columns, number reversal, mathematical operation)
Key Terms Used To Describe Specific Learning Disabilities
• Auditory Perceptual Deficit – Has trouble receiving accurate information from the sense of hearing (trouble with how the brain interprets what it hears) - oral instructions, differentiating between similar sounds, hearing one sound over a background of other noise
• Visual Perceptual Deficit- Has difficulties receiving and/or processing accurate information from their sense of sight ( picking out an object from a background of other objects or seeing things in the correct order)
Auditory Perception & Discrimination
The “FAST” Track
• Frustration
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Tension
“...What do we mean when we call something a
disadvantage? Conventional wisdom holds that
a disadvantage is something that ought to be
avoided—that it is a setback or a difficulty that
leaves you worse off than you would be
otherwise. But that is not always the case....I want
to explore the idea that there are such things as
“desirable difficulties.” That concept was
conceived by Robert Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork, two
psychologists at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and it is a beautiful and haunting way of
understanding how underdogs come to excel.”
~Malcom Gladwell from Chapter 5
“Technology gives me hope &
I need a lot of Hope!" ~ Earnestine
Looking Back to See Forward…
“In 1990, the internet was something used by
fantasy baseball fanatics on CompuServe and
mobile phones were the size of toddlers — a
luxury for those who could afford to not use
pay phones. Satellite TV meant having a
massive dish on your property; millions
struggled with programming their VCRs to
tape L.A. Law; bills were paid by check... in
the mail.”
By Chris Morran
Tools for Life
AppFinder
TFL AppFinder
Search by:
App Name
Categories – Book
– Education
– Environmental Adaptations
– Hearing
– Cognition, Learning,
Developmental
– Navigation
– Personal Care and Safety
– Productivity
– Communication
– Therapeutic Aids
– Vision
TFL AppFinder
Guided Access
• Helps remain on task and focus
• Limit to one app / turn off home button
• Restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen
Comparing Tablets
Property Android iOS MS Windows Amazon Kindle Barnes and Noble
Nook
Number and
variety of Tablets
Over 11,000 iPad and iPad mini Several Kindle Fire and Fire
HD
Nook HD
Operating System Android (Jelly
bean)
ios7 (Sept 18,
2013)
Microsoft Windows
8
Modified version of
Android ICS
Modified version of
Android- Microsoft
bought 2013
Apps 860,815
(AppBrain.com
updated 9/13/13)
900,000 with
375,00 optimized
for iPad/mini
(mobileburn.com
updated June
2013)
104,917
(winbeta.org
updated July 4,
2013)
50,000 in Amazon
App store also shop
in Google Play
Store
(theverge.com
updated August
2013)
10,000 in Barnes
and Noble and
have access to
Google Play store
(barnesandnoble.co
m updated August
2013)
Software Updates As it becomes
available on Google
Apple releases
updates
MS releases
updates
Amazon releases
updates
Barnes and Noble
releases updates
Interface As designed by
manufacturer
Icons and widgets
designed by Apple
Metro style
designed by
Microsoft
Modified version of
regular Android
Modified version of
regular Android
www.bluebugle.org updated by TFL 2013
Android Device Fragmentation
July 2012: 3,997
Different Android Devices July 2013: 11,868
Different Android Devices
July 30, 2013 http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/30/heres-what-android-fragmentation-looks-like Ben Satterfield
Knowledge transfer is the practical action
of transferring knowledge from one
organization to another. Like knowledge
management, knowledge transfer seeks to
organize, create, capture or distribute
knowledge and ensure its availability for
future users.
TIP: Universities & Colleges are becoming
more agile and actively seeking avenues
for Knowledge Transfer.
Emerging Trends
Wikipedia
TechSage (RERC)
• Funded by: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Dept. of Ed
• Timeline: Oct 1, 2013 – Sept 30, 2018
• Amount: $4.6 million ($925k/year) + ~ $1 million GT cost share
• Interdisciplinary: CoA (ID, GIS, AMAC), CoS (Psych), CoE (BME), CoC (HCI/HCC), IPAT (IMTC, Awarehome), GTRI, Emory Ctr. for Health in Aging, CS/Engineering USC
RERC TechSAGE
TechSage Mission
To conduct programs of advanced
rehabilitation engineering (RE) and technical
R&D to increase knowledge about,
availability of, and access to effective,
universally-designed technologies that
enable people to sustain independence,
maintain health, safely engage in basic
activities of daily living at home and
community, and participate in society as
they age with disability.
Scope
• Research (Rogers) – R1. User Needs (Rogers, Fain, Jones)
– R2. Effects of Hearing Loss (Bruce, Echt)
– R3. Exercise Telerobotics (Mitzner, Beer)
• Development (Price) – D1. App Development
• D1.1. Cognitive Training Game (Gandy-Kennedy)
• D1.2. Route Planning App (Sanford, Guhathakurta)
• D1.3. Mobile App to Measure Gait (Jones, Johnson)
– D2. SmartBathroom Technologies (Sanford,Jones)
– D3. Intelligent Robotics (Kemp)
• Training (Sanford) – T1. Online Education (Phillips)
– T2. Post Secondary Education (Sanford)
– T3. UD Competition (Rébola)
• Dissemination (Mitzner)
Future
• Evening out the playing field
• More schools Bring Your Own Technology
• The Future is Contextual
– GPS apps
– Ads on Internet
– Smart watches • Martha Rust
Locabulary
• Uses GPS to track user
location and suggests
appropriate vocabulary based
on location
– ie: McDonald’;s starbucks
• A keyboard to type for text-to-
speech
• User can tag their own
locations and create
vocabulary for each location
• Lite version Free; Pro version
$130
Neuroplasticity
Research
Neuroplasticity research has established, beyond doubt, that instead of being a static cell mass, our brain is actually a
dynamic system of neural networks that has the capability of significant growth
under favorable circumstances.
Rudraprosad Chakraborty, M.D.
12 Brain Rules –
John Medina Ph.D.
The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know. Dr. John Medina- Developmental Molecular Biologist
How Your Child Learns
Best
Neuroplasticity
When the action is repeated, the more
dendrites sprout to connect new
memories to old ones, stronger the
connections become, the more
efficient the brain becomes at
retrieving that memory or action
VGo Telepresence Robot
• Enables a person to replicate
themself in a distant location
and have the freedom to
move around as if they were
physically there
• Reduces travel costs
• School
• Hospital
• Work from home
Vgo Website
Meet NAO!
iOS 8 Fall 2014
My Question to You:
What have You Learned today?
Contact
Carolyn Phillips
Director, Tools for Life
Daphne Brookins
AT Funding & Resource Specialist
Ben Jacobs
Accommodations Specialist
Disclaimer
This presentation is produced by Tools for Life which is a result of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended in 2004. It is a program
of the Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture [COA], AMAC and is funded by grant #H224C030009 of the Rehabilitation
Services Administration (RSA), Department of Education. The contents of this presentation were developed under a grant from the
Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, Georgia Tech,
COA or AMAC and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.
Liz Persaud
Training, Outreach and Development
Coordinator
Martha Rust
AT Specialist
Rachel Wilson
Tech Match Specialist