CyberCoach: Keeping People with Memory Disabilities Employed and Independent

Cyber​​Coach：让记忆障碍人士保持就业和独立

• 批准号: 7682973
• 负责人: JAMES E SCHROEDER
• 金额: $ 12.49万
• 依托单位: APPLIED HUMAN FACTORS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7682973
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Area; Attention Concentration; Caring; Cellular Phone; Censuses; Client; Cognitive; Communication; Complement; Computer software; Computers; Consensus; Development; Disabled Persons; Economic Burden; Elderly; Employment; Environment; Event; Family; Financial cost; Friends; Funding; Geographic Locations; Hearing; Human; Incidence; Independent Living; Individual; Life; Medical; Memory; Memory impairment; Mentally Disabled Persons; Methods; Modeling; Modification; Morale; Operative Surgical Procedures; Output; Participant; Persons; Phase; Physically Handicapped; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Prosthesis; Reading; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Running; Safety; Societies; Source; Speech; Speed; System; Tablets; Target Populations; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Text; Traumatic Brain Injury; Unemployment; United States National Institutes of Health; Voice; Wireless Technology; Work; Workplace; abstracting; base; blind; cost; design; disability; experience; innovation; laptop; life time cost; multiple disability; novel strategies; programs; restoration; software development; speech recognition

Project Summary/Abstract The proposed "CyberCoach" system will help persons with memory deficits perform tasks related to employment and independent living. CyberCoach will increase the amount of communication among the end user (person with a memory deficit), rehabilitation professional(s), concerned family/friends, and employer. The primary user interface is speech, with the CyberCoach using synthesized or recorded speech output and speech recognition for input. A standard computer serves as the base unit (Hub) and standard cell phones, picture/text phones, PDA phones, or Tablet/Laptop computers can serve as the user's remote units (Terminals). Using this approach, a large variety of information channels and media are made available. CyberCoach serves as a communication hub, originating or relaying information to other appropriate participants. When used with a PDA phone or some other computer-based Terminal, CyberCoach will not replace, but rather augment cognitive prosthetic "reminder" programs already available. The global positioning system will be exploited for use as well as an innovative memory prosthetic that provides assistance recalling information. Utilization of new speech server technology will make this a very affordable alternative. In Phase II, the system will be further developed, subjected to user tests with non-disabled and memory-disabled subjects. To determine its efficacy, the resulting system will be subjected to a larger test involving the targeted population in actual employment and independent-living settings.

项目摘要/摘要 拟议的“网络理学”系统将帮助患有记忆缺陷的人执行与 就业和独立生活。网络理学将增加最终之间的沟通数量 用户（患有记忆赤字的人），康复专业人员，有关的家人/朋友和雇主。 主要的用户界面是语音，网络处理使用综合或记录的语音输出，以及 输入的语音识别。标准计算机用作基本单元（集线器）和标准手机， 图片/文本电话，PDA电话或平板电脑/笔记本电脑可以用作用户的远程单元 （终端）。使用这种方法，可以提供各种信息渠道和媒体。 Cyber​​coach用作通信中心，将信息发起或传达给其他适当的信息 参与者。当与PDA手机或其他一些基于计算机的终端一起使用时，Cyber​​coach不会 替换，而是增加已经可用的认知假肢“提醒”程序。全球 定位系统将被利用供使用以及提供的创新记忆假体 协助召回信息。新的语音服务器技术的利用将使之成为非常实惠的 选择。在第二阶段中，将进一步开发系统，并经过非障碍的用户测试和 内存障碍的主题。为了确定其疗效，将对结果系统进行更大的测试 将目标人群涉及实际就业和独立生活环境。