User study and integration of assistive technologies for people with cognitive disabilities in their daily life activities

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 7, no. 3, Gomez, Javier; Montoro, Germán, Evaluating Ambient Assisted Living Components and Systems, pp. 389-390, Copyright (2015), with permission from IOS PressThe present article summarizes the doctoral dissertation of Javier Gomez

Estudio e integración de un sistema de diálogos dinámico en un entorno inteligente

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Escuela Politécnica Superior, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática. Fecha de lectura: 6-05-200

Ifaces: Adaptative user interfaces for ambient intelligence

Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. Amsterdam, The Netherlands 25-27 July 2008In this paper we present an ontology language to model an environment and its graphical user interface in the field of ambient intelligence. This language allows a simple definition of the environment and automatically produces its associated interaction interface. The interface dynamically readjusts to the characteristics of the environment and the available devices. Therefore it adapts to the necessities of the people who have to use it and their resources. The system has been developed and tested employing a real ambient intelligence environment.This work has been partly funded by HADA project number TIN2007 – 64718 and the UAM – Indra Chair in Ambient Intelligence

Sistema de recepción para radioastronomía en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao

En este TFM se presenta el desarrollo de un sistema de recepción para radioastronomía en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao, el cual está basado en un Small Radio Telescope (SRT). Los radiotelescopios se utilizan para el estudio de los cuerpos celestes en el rango de frecuencias correspondientes a las ondas de radio. Por lo general, los radiotelescopios requieren de una infraestructura compleja y de gran tamaño. Sin embargo, en caso de que se quieran recibir señales de mayor intensidad es posible utilizar antenas más pequeñas, dando lugar a un SRT. En este sentido, un SRT es adecuado para el ámbito académico, ya que permite la captación de señales del espacio presentando a su vez un menor coste y complejidad tecnológica que un radiotelescopio profesional. De este modo, lo primero que se ha realizado es un estudio bibliográfico de diversas implementaciones de SRT que han sido desarrolladas por otros autores, consiguiendo definir un esquema general que contiene las diferentes partes que componen un SRT. Con este fin, se ha ordenado el esquema en diferentes bloques, realizando dentro de cada bloque una clasificación de los diferentes elementos que pueden encontrarse en él. Posteriormente, se ha planteado un diseño para el montaje de un SRT en la escuela de ingeniería de Bilbao, el cual estaría inicialmente centrado en la detección de la línea de hidrógeno, con la finalidad de promover su desarrollo en un futuro. Finalmente, se han llevado a cabo una serie de pruebas e implementaciones de validación. Estas implementaciones utilizan ciertos componentes planteados en el diseño anterior. De esta forma, se ha pretendido demostrar la posibilidad de captar señales provenientes del espacio con instrumentación básica y asequible

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”

Using 2D codes for creating ubiquitous user interfaces for ambient intelligence environments

Workshop Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Vol 8, Javier Gómez, Germán Montoro, Pablo A. Haya, Xavier Alamán, Using 2D Codes for Creating Ubiquitous User Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence Environments, 42 - 51, Copyright 2010, with permission from IOS PressThis is an electronic version of the paper presented at the 1st International Workshop on Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence (HCIAmI'10), held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on 2010Smart phones are one of the most popular devices nowadays. The enrichment of their technical capabilities allows them to carry out new operations beyond the traditional in telephony. This work presents a system that automatically generates user interfaces for Ambient Intelligence environments. This way, smart phones act as “ubiquitous remote controllers” for the elements of the environment. The paper proposes some ideas about the usability and adequacy of these interfaces.This work was partially funded by projects eMadrid (Comunidad de Madrid, S2009/TIC-1650), Vesta (Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, TSI-020100- 2009-828) and HADA (Ministerio de Ciencia y Educación, TIN 2007-64718

DS-UCAT: Sistema de diálogo multimodal y multilingüe para un entorno educativo

Actas de las IV Jornadas de Tecnología del Habla (JTH 2006)En este artículo presentamos un sistema de diálogo multimodal y multilingüe que estamos desarrollando para proporcionar asistencia a estudiantes y profesores en algunas de sus actividades habituales en un entorno educativo, p. e. en una Facultad de una Universidad. Tenemos previsto que además de interactuar con el usuario, el sistema pueda interactuar con el entorno en que éste se encuentra en un momento dado, el cual puede cambiar a lo largo de una interacción conforme el usuario se mueve dentro del centro educativo. El artículo describe la arquitectura del sistema, muestra cómo se realiza la interacción con la versión actual del mismo, y comenta cómo tenemos previsto utilizar técnicas de inteligencia ambiental para mejorar su funcionamiento.Este trabajo ha sido financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, mediante el proyecto TIN2004-03140 Ubiquitous Collaborative Training

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)

Mobile devices as assistive technologies for ASD: experiences in the classroom

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40355-7_18Information and Communication Technologies offer new opportunities to people with disabilities to develop their autonomy and independence in their daily life activities. However, more research should be done in order to comprehend how technology affects this collective of people. This paper presents two experiences where participants with cognitive disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder used AssisT-Task to perform job related activities and DEDOS to perform educational activities. Their performance is improved along the sessions using both tools. Combining visual and textual information help students with cognitive disabilities and ASD to focus on the contents presented, avoiding usability and accessibility issues, and therefore improving their learning process while they are having fun interacting with new technologiesThis work has been funded in part by the Spanish Economy and Competitiveness Ministry under project “e-Integra: e-Training y e-Coaching para la integración socio-laboral” (TIN2013-44586-R) and by the Region of Madrid under pro-ject “eMadrid – Investigación y Desarrollo de tecnologías para el e-learning en la Comunidad de Madrid (S2013/ICE-2715