El aula virtual como herramienta y metodología para la enseñanza en medicina nuclear

Se presenta un estudio investigativo propositivo de corte cualitativo, bajo el diseño de investigación acción, que busca proponer y diseñar nuevos métodos y herramientas para el análisis y diagnostico a través de imágenes utilizadas en el proceso de enseñanza de la Medicina Nuclear. Se desarrolla y publica material visual a través de la plataforma Moodle utilizada en la facultad de medicina de la Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, se enuncian las etapas de diseño, capacitación, selección del material, organización de la temática y puesta en marcha del aula virtual, de la misma manera se presentan actividades para el análisis e interpretación de diferentes casos patológicos, el material visual se clasifica según los diferentes sistemas orgánicos subdivididos por las patologías correspondientes.We present a proactive research study, qualitative, under the design action-research that seeks to propose and design new methods and tools for analysis and diagnosis through images used in the teaching of Nuclear Medicine. It develops and publishes visual material through the Moodle platform used in the medical faculty of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, sets out the stages of design, training, selection of material, organization of subject matter and implementation of virtual classroom, activities are also presented for the analysis and interpretation of different pathological cases, the visual material is classified according to different organ systems divided by the corresponding diseases. Since the implementation of this methodology is demonstrated that can facilitate the learning of different techniques, procedures and diagnoses using the platform as a means of multidisciplinary team work, discussion and analysis for complex decision-making active student participation in the process of formatio

Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction

In this paper, we analyze the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to have a pervasive, feasible and non-stigmatizing form of assistance in their emotional self-regulation, in order to ease certain behavioral issues that undermine their mental health throughout their life. We argue the potential of recent widespread wearables, and more specifically smartwatches, to achieve this goal. Then, a smartwatch system that implements a wide range of self-regulation strategies and infers outburst patterns from physiological signals and movement is presented, along with an authoring tool for smartphones that is to be used by caregivers or family members to create and edit these strategies, in an adaptive way. We conducted an intensive experiment with two individuals with ASD who showed varied, representative behavioral responses to their emotional dysregulation. Both users were able to employ effective, customized emotional self-regulation strategies by means of the system, recovering from the majority of mild stress episodes and temper tantrums experienced in the nine days of experiment in their classroomThis work has been partially funded by the projects “e-Training y e-Coaching para la integración socio—laboral” (TIN2013-44586-R) and “eMadrid-CM: Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid” (S2013/ICE-2715). It has been also funded by Fundación Orange during the early stages of the project “Tic-Tac-TEA: Sistema de asistencia para la autorregulación emocional en momentos de crisis para personas con TEA mediante smartwatches

The potential of smartwatches for emotional self-regulation of people with autism spectrum disorder

This paper focuses on the potential of smartwatchers as interventors in the process of emotional self-regulation on individuals with ASD. Parting from a model of assistance in their self-regulation tasks, we review the main advantages of smartwatches in terms of sensors and pervasive interaction potential. We argue the suitability of smartwatches for this kind of assistance, including studies that had used them for related purposes, and the relation of this idea with the affective computing area. Finally, we propose a technological approach for emotional self-regulation assistance that uses smartwatches and applies to the mentioned intervention model.This work has been partially funded by the projects “e-Training y e-Coaching para la integración socio—laboral” (TIN2013--44586--R) and “eMadrid-CM: Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnologías Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid” (S2013/ICE-2715). It has been also funded by Fundación Orange during the early stages of the project “Tic-Tac-TEA: Sistema de asistencia para la autorregulación emocional en momentos de crisis para personas con TEA mediante smartwatches”

Tecnologías móviles y wearables para la autorregulación emocional de personas con Trastornos del Espectro Autista

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior , Departamento de Ingeniería Informática. Fecha de lectura: 22-06-201

Evaluación e implantación de herramienta móvil para la asistencia de personas con necesidades especiales en sus tareas de la vida diaria

En este Trabajo de Fin de Máster se describe la evaluación de una herramienta basada en smartphone para asistir a personas con discapacidad cognitiva en sus tareas de la vida diaria, llamada AssisT-Task, cuyo diseño inicial fue objeto de Trabajo de Fin de Grado. Esta aplicación proporciona manuales interactivos paso a paso con instrucciones para completar tareas cotidianas en su entorno o centro de empleo, utilizando como apoyo códigos QR y una herramienta de autor para que los educadores o familiares editen el contenido de estos manuales. En este trabajo se describen los cambios de funcionalidad que se han implementado, así como las necesidades que los justifican. La evaluación se realiza a través de un experimento con usuarios en el centro de preparacién laboral Fundación Síndrome de Down de Madrid. Se describe la planificación de dicho experimento, las bases teóricas y metodologías que lo apoyan, así como la muestra de población con discapacidad cognitiva que vamos a representar. Posteriormente, se analiza de forma cuantitativa y cualitativa la acción de los usuarios a partir del visionado de los vídeos pertenecientes a las sesiones del experimento. Los resultados obtenidos evidencian que AssisT-Task mejora el rendimiento de los usuarios en cuanto a tiempo de completado de las tareas, precisión y tasa de error.This Master's Thesis is a description of the evaluation process for a smartphone tool developed to assist people with cognitive disabilities in their daily-life activities. It is called AssisT-Task, and its initial design was the main theme of an Undergraduate Thesis. This application provides step-by-step interactive manuals, a prompting system that allows to complete dalily-life tasks in their environment or job, using QR codes as support and an authoring tool, so that caregivers and family can modify and create the content of these manuals. In this document are also described the new features developed because of new necessities discovered. The evaluation is carried out through a user experiment with people from the center Fundación de Síndrome de Down de Madrid. Plani cation of the experiment, theoretical bases and methodologies and cognitive disabled population sample are also described. Then, the performance of the users is analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively from the viewing of the recorded videos during the experiment. The obtained results shows that AssisT-Task improves the performance of the users in terms of time, accuracy and error rate

HikePal: A mobile exergame to motivate people with intellectual disabilities to do outdoor physical activities

People with intellectual disabilities often have a sedentary lifestyle that can lead to long-term issues like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and depression. Although literature shows that the main reason for this is the lack of motivation to do physical activity, scarce research has been done in accessible apps to track and foster physical activities that address motivation. This paper presents HikePal, a game-inspired app to motivate individuals with intellectual disabilities to do physical activity outdoors. We have followed a design and creation research strategy using 1) semi-structured interviews with five experts (health care workers, special education experts and software engineers); 2) a focus group with an occupational therapist, a physical therapist and four software engineers; 3) a pilot user test with three individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. Having social interaction during the physical activity turned out to be a major motivational aspect of the system, whereas reward systems did not attract much of the users’ attention. Regarding the adapted navigational assistance, we found out that easy-to-read text, visual communication and street-level pictures were the key features to achieve successful and understandable guidance outdoors for people with intellectual disabilities. It proved useful to perform a test on the field and to refine the design guidelines in view of a forthcoming large-scale experimental test involving a larger number of persons with intellectual, sensory and motor disabilities

An Adapted Wayfinding System for Pedestrians with Cognitive Disabilities

This paper presents a novel wayfinding system adapted to people with cognitive disabilities. It adapts to the user in terms of route calculation, instructions delivery, and interface design. To do so, the system divides the calculated route into atomic instructions and uses street-level photographs at the decision points. To evaluate this approach, we compared it with a commercial navigation application on a field trial with a sample of users (N = 18). From the evaluation, we concluded that our system improves users' performance in terms of the number who reached the destination and were able to identify it correctly.This work has been partially funded by Projects "e-Training y e-Coaching para la Integracion Socio-Laboral" (TIN2013-44586--R) and "eMadrid-CM: Investigacion y Desarrollo de Tecnologias Educativas en la Comunidad de Madrid" (S2013/ICE-2715)