Mobility for All: architecture and technology demo

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Mobility for All architecture and technology
demo

• approach
• architecture
• technology demo
• future work

Jim Sullivan Co-Director, Cognitive Levers
Project Center for LifeLong Learning and
Design james.sullivan_at_colorado.edu
Alexander Repenning CEO and President AgentSheets,
Inc. alexander_at_agentsheets.com
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Old approach fit the user into the system
Here is your map . You live here Your
destination is here Your bus will have this
label When you see this landmark, remember to
pull the cable on the bus so the driver knows you
will get off at the next stop. This is where you
will get off Dont forget your backpack! OK, now
lets talk about the schedule . do you know how
to read a clock?
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New approach design a system to fit the user
my drawing of my house
my mom works here
things I have to remember
my bus
other things I can do
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Mobile architecture
transportation systems
mobile users
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Technology demonstration components
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Constructive solution for mobile users

• Proof-of-concept of a location-aware, mobile
  device that
• gives personalized, logical choices (based on
  location, time of day and week, abilities, etc.)
• provides multi-modal information and feedback in
  response to user choices and actions.
• communicates with a virtual transportation
  system (and potentially other sources of
  information) to
• locate the right bus
• prepare for boarding
• get on the right bus
• prepare to get off at the right location
• reward good performance
• provide cognitive post-its to remember items
  easily forgotten in a complex itinerary

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Virtual 3D/real-time display

• For caregivers
• Supports preparation and training
• to better visualize/understand/interact with a
  complex and dynamic system
• to design see how personalized user prompts
  (prompting content sequence, preparation time,
  prompting frequency, etc.) will interact with
  real-time vehicles.
• Support real-time monitoring and assessment
• use a 3D real-time display to make confederate
  observations of MULTIPLE users
• determine real-time errors, and offer
  contextualized, real-time help
• review performance errors, and create
  training/intervention strategies

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Real-time tracked busses
Simulated person
Speech recognition
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Research hypotheses

• independence mobile architecture will afford an
  ability to learn more routes, leading to
  increased independence.
• learning instantiates an errorless learning
  strategy supports learning and using
  individually relevant routes.
• efficiencies less time to learn a route more
  time to learn different routes allows overworked
  therapists to identify and focus on users with
  greatest needs.
• personalization memory and attention prompts can
  be contextualized and dynamically tailored to
  suit user needs.
• safety dynamic error detection and recovery
  strategies can incorporate both automated and
  human intervention.
• assessment can collect real-time data for
  development, user training and personalization,
  while avoiding abandonment.
• scale can be used in other transportation
  systems with bus GPS infrastructure technologies
  (see nextbus.com).
• many potential space program applications!

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Mobility for All - future work

• architecture integration (goal seamless look
  and feel for user communities)
• error detection and recovery (panic button)
• caregiver feedback (identify training and
  technology needs, script creation and
  modification)
• personalization technologies (customizable by
  caregivers adaptable to users engaging to use
  supportive of learning and growth)
• test and evaluation on a mobile, wireless
  platform

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