Proof of concept for a novel IoT system that offers a cost-effective and productivity enhancing learning support system for children with special education needs

这个概念验证可行性项目以参与式设计为基础，将研究、设计和开发一个OliTool原型系统，用于小学特殊需要儿童的用户测试。OliTool将从一开始就纳入利益相关者的反馈，将是一个创新的适应性学习IoT系统，包括一个感官有形的用户界面和一个针对有特殊教育需求挑战的儿童的配套应用程序，特别是自闭症、ADHD和/或焦虑。它旨在满足对具有成本效益的SEN支持工具的需求，该工具具有以下功能：*儿童学习调节感官需求，理解行为和情绪并将其实时传达给成人主管；*监督成人收集有价值的数据以进行评估和评估。Ogenblik Ltd是OliTool的开发商，OliTool是连接到个性化应用程序的下一代交互式有形用户界面。目前的原型在埃克塞特大学进行了为期六周的试验，成功地在患有焦虑症的成年人身上进行了试验。OliTool利用行为改变实践和认知行为疗法来帮助识别麻烦的行为模式和触发因素，并支持行为改变。埃克塞特试验展示了概念的证明，并提供了对用户需求和偏好以及采用障碍的重要见解。来自心理学家、健康专业人士(包括塔维斯托克和波特曼NHS基金会信托基金的主要临床医生)、教育工作者和家长的更多反馈表明，为儿童开发OliTool提供了一个强大的商业机会。针对儿童的OliTool概念在伦敦西部一所小学的四年级儿童队列中进行了进一步测试，结果呈阳性。对于Ogenblik来说，至关重要的下一步，也是这一应用的重点，是为有特殊教育需求的儿童重新设计OliTool，特别关注注意力和多动障碍、自闭症和焦虑。目前为有特殊教育需要的儿童提供的服务主要基于特殊教育专家、教师和其他专家的直接干预，这些专家主要使用模拟的SEN资源。机器人技术、虚拟现实和游戏化方法正在探索中，如Milo、Floreotech和MyCognition，但很少有数字资源提供引人入胜的触觉支持的物理界面。EdTech和eHealth的经验表明，吸引人的技术可以产生成本效益。例如，研究表明，互联网CBT与面对面CBT一样有效，同时将拨备成本降低高达40%。基于文本的CBT也被证明是有效和具有成本效益的。OliTool是一款基于非屏幕的离散有形用户界面和个性化应用程序，利用基于证据的特殊教育支持技术，为特殊教育需求儿童提供了一种新的经济高效的评估、干预和评估工具。至关重要的是，它为教育工作者提供了创新的方法来改善特殊教育需求的提供。

This proof of concept feasibility project, underpinned by participatory design, will research, design and develop an OliTool prototype system for user-testing with special needs children in primary school.Incorporating stakeholder feedback from the outset, OliTool will be an innovative adaptive learning IoT system comprising a sensory tangible user interface and a companion app for children with SEN challenges, particularly ASD, ADHD and/or anxiety. It aims to meet the need for a cost-effective SEN support tool with features that help:* Children learn to regulate sensory needs, and understand and communicate behaviours and emotions in real-time to adult supervisors;* Supervising adults gather valuable data for assessments and evaluations.Ogenblik Ltd are the developers of OliTool, a next generation interactive tangible user interface connected to a personalised app. The current prototype was trialled successfully on adults with anxiety at Exeter University in a six-week trial. OliTool draws on behaviour change practices and cognitive behavioural therapy to help identify troublesome behaviour patterns and triggers and support behaviour change. The Exeter trial demonstrated proof of concept and offered important insights into user needs and preferences and barriers to adoption. Additional feedback from psychologists, health professionals (including leading clinicians at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust), educators and parents suggested that developing OliTool for children presented a strong business opportunity. The concept of OliTool for children was further tested on a cohort of Year 4 children to positive results at a West London primary school. The vital next step for Ogenblik, and the focus of this application, is to redesign OliTool for SEN children with a particular focus on attention and hyperactivity disorders, autism and anxiety.Current provision for SEN children is largely based on direct interventions by SEN specialists, teachers and other experts employing primarily analogue SEN resources. Robotics, virtual reality and gamification approaches, such as Milo, Floreotech and MyCognition, are being explored, but few digital resources provide an engaging haptically enabled physical interface.Experience with EdTech and eHealth has shown that engaging technology can engender cost efficiencies. For example, research has shown that internet CBT is just as effective as in-person CBT while reducing provision costs by up to 40%. Text-based CBT has also been demonstrated as efficient and cost-effective. OliTool, a non-screen based discrete tangible user interface and personalisable app, leveraging evidence-based SEN support techniques, offers a novel cost-effective tool for assessment, intervention and evaluation for SEN children. Crucially, it provides educators innovative methods to improve SEN provision.