CyberCoach: Keeping People with Memory Disabilities Employed and Independent

Cyber​​Coach：让记忆障碍人士保持就业和独立

• 批准号: 7271767
• 负责人: JAMES E SCHROEDER
• 金额: $ 35.26万
• 依托单位: APPLIED HUMAN FACTORS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7271767
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Area; Attention Concentration; Caring; Cellular Phone; Censuses; Client; Cognitive; Communication; Complement; Computer software; Computers; Condition; Consensus; Development; Disabled Persons; Economic Burden; Elderly; Emotional; Employment; Environment; Event; Family; Financial cost; Friends; Funding; Geographic Locations; Government Agencies; Hearing; Human; Incidence; Independent Living; Individual; Life; Medical; Memory; Memory impairment; Mentally Disabled Persons; Methods; Modeling; Modification; Morale; Numbers; Operative Surgical Procedures; Output; Participant; Persons; Phase; Physically Handicapped; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Prosthesis; Range; Reading; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Running; Safety; Secure; Societies; Source; Speech; Speed; Standards of Weights and Measures; System; Tablets; Target Populations; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Text; Today; Traumatic Brain Injury; Unemployment; United States National Institutes of Health; Voice; Wireless Technology; Work; Workplace; base; blind; cost; design; disability; experience; improved; innovation; laptop; life time cost; multiple disability; novel strategies; programs; restoration; software development; speech recognition

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed "CyberCoach" system will help persons with memory deficits perform tasks related to employment and independent living. CyberCoach will increase the amount of communication among the end user (person with a memory deficit), rehabilitation professional(s), concerned family/friends, and employer. The primary user interface is speech, with the CyberCoach using synthesized or recorded speech output and speech recognition for input. A standard computer serves as the base unit (Hub) and standard cell phones, picture/text phones, PDA phones, or Tablet/Laptop computers can serve as the user's remote units (Terminals). Using this approach, a large variety of information channels and media are made available. CyberCoach serves as a communication hub, originating or relaying information to other appropriate participants. When used with a PDA phone or some other computer-based Terminal, CyberCoach will not replace, but rather augment cognitive prosthetic "reminder" programs already available. The global positioning system will be exploited for use as well as an innovative memory prosthetic that provides assistance recalling information. Utilization of new speech server technology will make this a very affordable alternative. In Phase II, the system will be further developed, subjected to user tests with non-disabled and memory-disabled subjects. To determine its efficacy, the resulting system will be subjected to a larger test involving the targeted population in actual employment and independent-living settings. The proposed approach offers an exciting, cost-effective, and affordable new approach for helping a variety of disabled users with memory/cognitive deficiencies obtain/retain meaningful employment and live independently. In addition, by living independently and securing meaningful employment, the users of this technology are likely to experience an improved sense of independence and self-worth. Also, the user, user's family, and supporting government agencies will benefit because of the reduced emotional and financial burden of supporting the user when unemployed or in a more institutional setting.

简介(申请人提供)：建议中的“数码教练”系统将协助记忆力有缺陷的人士执行与就业及独立生活有关的工作。CyberCoach将增加最终用户(记忆缺陷者)、康复专业人员(S)、相关家庭/朋友和雇主之间的通信量。主要的用户界面是语音，CyberCoach使用合成或录制的语音输出和语音识别作为输入。标准计算机用作基本单元(集线器)，标准手机、图文电话、PDA电话或平板电脑/笔记本电脑可用作用户的远程单元(终端)。使用这一方法，提供了大量的信息渠道和媒体。CyberCoach充当了一个通信枢纽，向其他合适的参与者发送或传递信息。当与PDA手机或其他基于计算机的终端一起使用时，CyberCoach不会取代，而是增强了现有的认知假肢“提醒”程序。将利用全球定位系统以及一种创新的记忆假体来帮助回忆信息。使用新的语音服务器技术将使这成为一种非常负担得起的替代方案。在第二阶段，将进一步开发该系统，对非失能和失忆受试者进行用户测试。为了确定其有效性，将对实际就业和独立生活环境中的目标人群进行更大规模的测试。建议的方法提供了一种令人兴奋、成本效益和负担得起的新方法，帮助各种有记忆/认知缺陷的残疾用户获得/保留有意义的工作和独立生活。此外，通过独立生活和获得有意义的工作，这项技术的用户可能会体验到更好的独立性和自我价值感。此外，用户、用户的家人和支持政府机构将受益，因为在失业或更具机构背景的情况下支持用户减少了情感和经济负担。