Ubiquitous computing tools and methods for supporting the mental, physical and social well-being of people with disabilities

支持残疾人精神、身体和社会福祉的无处不在的计算工具和方法

• 批准号: RGPIN-2021-04268
• 负责人: Truong, Khai
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=742955
• 关键词: Ubiquitous; computing; tools; methods; supporting

In Canada, approximately 32.7% of the population aged 12+ years reports being limited in their activities "sometimes" or "often" due to disease/illness. The Government of Canada's Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada department recently noted that "Canadians living with disabilities have the same ambitions as all other Canadians-they want opportunities to find good, well -paying jobs, make a contribution to their communities and the economy, and build a better life for themselves and their families." It called for solutions "to help Canadians with disabilities overcome barriers that come in the way of their full participation in the workplace." Although it is important to enable participation in the workplace, living with a disability includes mental, physical and social barriers that must also be addressed. The proposed work aims to support the well-being of disable users beyond the workplace. The proposed work will explore how to develop ubiquitous computing systems that will help individuals with disabilities engage in actions to overcome mental, physical and social barriers in their lives. This work will build upon the existing health belief model (HBM), a social psychological model which has been traditionally used to explain and predict behaviors, particularly ones related to a person's health. The HBM suggests that modifying factors (such as demographic characteristics, psychological characteristics, and knowledge) can affect a person's beliefs and motivations, which coupled with cues to action triggers a person to take particular actions that ultimately affect their health outcomes. Using it as a framework, we will develop automated, personalized and context-aware tools and methods for curating and providing information and cues that will augment the user's perception and belief about their condition (and what they can achieve with the aide of assistive ubicomp services) as a way to positively affect their mental, physical and social well-being. Although the proposed work will facilitate the development of systems that can potentially help any users, we will initially focus the research on individuals with impairments which affect their motivation and ability to engage in many regular activities, and limits their social interactions and impacts their development and maintenance of personal relationships. We will ground the proposed research through the development and evaluation of assistive technologies for different groups of users, such as older adults with dementia, individuals with visual impairments, and people with motor impairments (such as ALS). In using this approach, I will make contributions to both the ubiquitous computing area and human-computer interaction area. This approach will also allow for me to validate the proposed research through studies investigating how the proposed methods and tools work in authentic use. At the same time, the work will be applied towards real problems for real users.

在加拿大，大约32.7%的12岁以上人口报告说，由于疾病/疾病，他们的活动“有时”或“经常”受到限制。加拿大政府创新、科学和经济发展部最近指出，“加拿大残疾人和所有其他加拿大人一样有同样的抱负--他们希望有机会找到好的、高薪的工作，为社区和经济做出贡献，为自己和家人创造更好的生活。”它呼吁采取解决方案，“帮助加拿大残疾人克服阻碍他们充分参与工作的障碍”。尽管能够参与工作场所很重要，但残疾生活包括精神、身体和社会障碍，这些障碍也必须解决。这项拟议的工作旨在支持工作场所以外的残疾用户的福祉。这项拟议的工作将探索如何开发无处不在的计算系统，帮助残疾人参与克服他们生活中的精神、身体和社会障碍的行动。这项工作将建立在现有的健康信念模型(HBM)的基础上，这是一种传统上用于解释和预测行为，特别是与个人健康相关的行为的社会心理模型。HBM认为，修改因素(如人口统计特征、心理特征和知识)会影响一个人的信念和动机，这与行动线索相结合，会触发一个人采取最终影响其健康结果的特定行动。以此为框架，我们将开发自动化、个性化和情景感知的工具和方法，用于策划和提供信息和线索，以增强用户对他们的状况(以及他们在辅助ubiomp服务的帮助下可以实现的目标)的感知和信念，从而积极影响他们的心理、身体和社交健康。虽然拟议的工作将促进潜在地帮助任何用户的系统的开发，但我们最初将把研究重点放在有障碍的个人身上，这些障碍影响了他们参与许多常规活动的动机和能力，限制了他们的社交互动，并影响了他们的发展和个人关系的维持。我们将通过为不同的用户群体开发和评估辅助技术来为拟议的研究奠定基础，这些用户群体包括老年痴呆症患者、视觉障碍患者和运动障碍患者(如肌萎缩侧索硬化症)。通过使用这种方法，我将为普适计算领域和人机交互领域做出贡献。这一方法还将使我能够通过调查拟议的方法和工具在实际使用中如何发挥作用的研究来验证拟议的研究。同时，这项工作将应用于真实用户的真实问题。