Future bathroom: A study of user-centred design principles affecting usability, safety and satisfaction in bathrooms for people living with disabilities

Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2010-11 (Department of Health) Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 197

SEMA4A: An ontology for emergency notification systems accessibility

This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Expert Systems with Applications. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2009 Elsevier B.V.Providing alert communication in emergency situations is vital to reduce the number of victims. Reaching this goal is challenging due to users’ diversity: people with disabilities, elderly and children, and other vulnerable groups. Notifications are critical when an emergency scenario is going to happen (e.g. a typhoon approaching) so the ability to transmit notifications to different kind of users is a crucial feature for such systems. In this work an ontology was developed by investigating different sources: accessibility guidelines, emergency response systems, communication devices and technologies, taking into account the different abilities of people to react to different alarms (e.g. mobile phone vibration as an alarm for deafblind people). We think that the proposed ontology addresses the information needs for sharing and integrating emergency notification messages over distinct emergency response information systems providing accessibility under different conditions and for different kind of users.Ministerio de Educación y Cienci

Inclusive Intelligent Learning Management System Framework

Machado, D. S-M., & Santos, V. (2023). Inclusive Intelligent Learning Management System Framework. International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology, 13(1), [2423]. https://doi.org/10.5875/ausmt.v13i1.2423The article finds context and the current state of the art in a systematic literature review on intelligent systems employing PRISMA Methodology which is complemented with narrative literature review on disabilities, digital accessibility and legal and standards context. The main conclusion from this review was the existing gap between the available knowledge, standards, and law and what is put into practice in higher education institutions in Portugal. Design Science Research Methodology was applied to output an Inclusive Intelligent Learning Management System Framework aiming to help higher education professors to share accessible pedagogic content and deliver on-line and presential classes with a high level of accessibility for students with different types of disabilities, assessing the uploaded content with Web content Accessibility Guidelines 3.0, clustering students according to their profile, conscient feedback and emotional assessment during content consumption, applying predictive models and signaling students at risk of failing classes according to study habits and finally applying a recommender system. The framework was validated by a focus group to which experts in digital accessibility, information systems and a disabled PhD graduate.publishersversionpublishe

A Preliminary Study of Integrating Flipped Classroom strategy for Classical Chinese Learning

[[abstract]]This is a multiphase study which aims to investigate how to provide learners with an method to acquire classical Chinese through integrating mobile technology with the flipped classroom approach. Currently, in the first phase of study, the researcher adopts informant design through questionnaire survey to understand students' and instructors' perceptions of using mobile learning devices for classical Chinese learning, and afterwards the researcher constructs the system based on the pilot results. The pilot questionnaire results, structure of the developed mobile learning system and the practical application of the developed system for classical Chinese teaching and learning are described in the paper.[[notice]]補正完

Application of Educational Gaming and Robotics in Teaching and Learning Process

The development of technology has resulted in the development of many assistive tools employed to facilitate education. Amongst these technologically enhanced tools developed for education are games and robots. This paper examines the application of educational games and robots through review of available literature. The areas of application of games and robots in education have been presented. The paper further highlights some challenges encountered in the deployment of games and robotics in education

Inclusive Intelligent Learning Management System Framework - Application of Data Science in Inclusive Education

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, specialization in Data ScienceBeing a disabled student the author faced higher education with a handicap which as experience studying during COVID 19 confinement periods matched the findings in recent research about the importance of digital accessibility through more e-learning intensive academic experiences. Narrative and systematic literature reviews enabled providing context in World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, legal and standards framework and information technology and communication state-of-the art. Assessing Portuguese higher education institutions’ web sites alerted to the fact that only outlying institutions implemented near perfect, accessibility-wise, websites. Therefore a gap was identified in how accessible the Portuguese higher education websites are, the needs of all students, including those with disabilities, and even the accessibility minimum legal requirements for digital products and the services provided by public or publicly funded organizations. Having identified a problem in society and exploring the scientific base of knowledge for context and state of the art was a first stage in the Design Science Research methodology, to which followed development and validation cycles of an Inclusive Intelligent Learning Management System Framework. The framework blends various Data Science study fields contributions with accessibility guidelines compliant interface design and content upload accessibility compliance assessment. Validation was provided by a focus group whose inputs were considered for the version presented in this dissertation. Not being the purpose of the research to deliver a complete implementation of the framework and lacking consistent data to put all the modules interacting with each other, the most relevant modules were tested with open data as proof of concept. The rigor cycle of DSR started with the inclusion of the previous thesis on Atlântica University Institute Scientific Repository and is to be completed with the publication of this thesis and the already started PhD’s findings in relevant journals and conferences

Developing Vocabulary Material using Longtion Autorun Application for Hearing Impaired-Eleventh Grade Learners at SLB Negeri Cerme

In the special education, especially hearing impaired learner, the students also learn English, but the learners have the difficulty in learning English vocabulary. There are several reasons for the learners who have the difficulties in learning English vocabulary. One of the reason is because they have physical and mental weakness. Learners of SLB Negeri Cerme also have the difficulties of learning English vocabulary. To help the learners in learning better vocabulary, the researcher will use longtion autorun application to show the picture, text and translation. Longtion autorun application as the base material of learning vocabulary will help learners achieve better vocabularies, which will make the learners more interested and understand the material easily by using some pictures and exercises. The research and development design uses ADDIE instructional design model, to develop vocabulary material using Longtion autorun application for hearing impaired-eleventh grade learners at SLB Negeri Cerme. The research was conducted in SLB Negeri Cerme, involving three hearing impaired learners of eleventh grade. In this research and development, the steps are: need analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation. The need analysis gave some explanations; First, analysis of interviews with English teacher about the learning need, second, analysis of interviews with learners about their target need and learning need, third, curriculum document analysis. Researcher created a design instruction called material prototype as a framework that was used in developing syllabus and application. Researcher developed a material according to the result of need analysis and design. The activities of the learning are in three phases (pre, whilst, and post) Strategy. From the result of English teacher assessment, the score was 87,5. While the result of learner’s questionnaire about the product, the total score was 88,3. It belongs to the good category based on scoring. This second draft of material was considered as the final draft. The overall conclusion appears that the learners interested when they learnt English using Longtion autorun application because the materials were easy to understand, interesting, and suitable for eleventh grade hearing impaired learners. The researcher gives some recommendation, the next researcher could conduct the similar project to do the same research with different level and focus in order to enrich the variety of the research. For the teacher, this product could be used as a combination when they teach English to introduce the simple English vocabulary to the learners