Título: | END-USER CONFIGURATION IN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: A CASE STUDY WITH A SEVERELY PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED USER | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
BRUNO AZEVEDO CHAGAS |
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Colaborador(es): |
HUGO FUKS - Orientador CLARISSE SIECKENIUS DE SOUZA - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 28/ABR/2016 | Língua(s): | ENGLISH - UNITED STATES |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26207&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=26207&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.26207 | ||||||||||||
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Assistive Technology (AT) aims at compensating for motor, sensory or
cognitive functional limitations of its users. One of the reasons AT is hard to
design and turn into a product is the variability of kinds and degrees of disabilities
and individual characteristics among users (physical, psychological, cultural and
environmental). This variability can be addressed by means of configurations.
This work takes as a starting point the premise that the ability for the end-user to
adapt AT may have the potential to improve user s experience and the quality of
the products. However, before engaging in such endeavor we must answer
questions like: what is configuration in the AT domain? What does AT mean to
users (and stakeholders)? What could, should or should not be configured and
how? In this work, we conducted a case study mixing ethnography and actionresearch
with a single tetraplegic participant who came to our lab seeking for
technology that could help him in his daily life. First, we interviewed him and
observed his daily needs and activities and then we developed an AT platform
prototype that controls some devices to be operated simultaneously by gesture and
voice interaction in his smart home. Throughout two action-research cycles, we
investigated interaction and technological issues regarding our prototype
configuration and use. Based on our findings, we propose a set of dimensions and
a collaborative framework for AT configuration. Our main contribution is to
propose a conceptual structure for organizing the AT configuration problem space
to support the design of similar technologies.
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