Ubiquitous Computing Systems & Methods for Supporting Activities of Daily Living

普适计算系统

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-06326
• 负责人: Truong, Khai
• 金额: $ 2.77万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=710250
• 关键词: Ubiquitous; Computing; Systems; Methods; Supporting

In Canada, it is estimated that one in seven people has a physical, cognitive, or sensory disability that limits their daily activities. I proposed to explore how to develop ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems and methods specifically to help people with disabilities complete activities of daily living (ADLs) and function independently within a community as a research platform for investigating important computer science issues. In particular, I will develop and evaluate software tools, models, and methods to facilitate the future design and implementation of ubicomp systems specifically to support people with disabilities continue in the completion of important ADLs on their own. Many ADLs can be difficult for anyone who has lost some cognitive, motor and/or perceptual functions to perform. Thus, individuals with special needs often must rely on informal caregivers to help them complete their activities. I will develop models of how people complete ADLs with the help of caregivers in different contexts. I will create new technologies that seamlessly integrate into the users' environments and the artefacts that they use on a daily basis to sense their contexts and infer the activities that may need help completing. Additionally, I will explore how to model and store that information, and how to link and associate the context of the current user experience to other relevant experiences and information that may help the users complete ADLs. The research contributions described above will facilitate the development of novel class of ubicomp applications. The proposed work will depart from existing approaches for building ubicomp applications by focusing on continuously contextualizing and relating the current/live user experiences with other relevant experiences and information. Furthermore, the proposed work will explore how to include and use a variety of other types of context, such as social and historical ones. Although the proposed work will facilitate the development of ubicomp applications that can potentially help any users, those who might be able to benefit the most are individuals with impairments to particular functions that are needed to complete some ADLs (such as the ability to plan, communicate, remember, etc.). I will ground my research in the development and evaluation of assistive technologies for three specific groups of users: older adults with dementia, individuals with a motor-neuron disease (such as ALS), and children with autism. In using this approach, I will make contributions to both the ubiquitous computing area and human-computer interaction area. This approach will also allow me to validate the proposed research through studies investigating how the proposed methods and models work in authentic use. At the same time, the work will be applied towards real problems for real users.

在加拿大，据估计，每七个人中就有一个人有身体、认知或感官残疾，这限制了他们的日常活动。我提议探索如何开发普适计算（ubicomp）系统和方法，专门帮助残疾人完成日常生活活动（ADL），并在社区内独立运作，作为研究重要计算机科学问题的研究平台。特别是，我将开发和评估软件工具，模型和方法，以促进ubicomp系统的未来设计和实施，特别是支持残疾人继续在自己完成重要的ADL。 许多ADL对于已经失去一些认知、运动和/或感知功能的人来说可能难以执行。因此，有特殊需要的人往往必须依靠非正式的照顾者帮助他们完成活动。我将开发人们如何在不同背景下在护理人员的帮助下完成ADL的模型。我将创造新技术，无缝集成到用户的环境和他们每天使用的人工制品中，以感知他们的上下文并推断可能需要帮助完成的活动。此外，我将探索如何建模和存储这些信息，以及如何将当前用户体验的上下文链接和关联到其他相关体验和信息，以帮助用户完成ADL。 上述的研究贡献将有助于开发新的ubicomp应用程序。拟议的工作将偏离现有的方法来构建ubicomp应用程序，重点是不断地将当前/实时用户体验与其他相关体验和信息联系起来。此外，拟议的工作将探讨如何包括和使用各种其他类型的背景，如社会和历史的。 虽然拟议的工作将促进ubicomp应用程序的开发，可以潜在地帮助任何用户，那些谁可能能够受益最多的是个人有障碍的特定功能，需要完成一些日常生活能力（如计划的能力，沟通，记忆等）。我将把我的研究放在三个特定用户群体的辅助技术的开发和评估上：老年痴呆症患者，运动神经元疾病（如ALS）患者和自闭症儿童。通过这种方法，我将在普适计算领域和人机交互领域做出贡献。这种方法也将使我能够通过研究所提出的方法和模型在真实使用中如何工作来验证所提出的研究。同时，这项工作将应用于真实的用户的真实的问题。