TY - GEN
T1 - Assistive technologies for people with cognitive disabilities
T2 - AAAI 2015 Fall Symposium
AU - Sayko, Madelaine E.
AU - Tremoulet, Patrice
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - According to the Journal, 'Inclusion', in 2012, 9% of the US population, or 28.5M Americans, had a cognitive disability. Worldwide the number is believed to exceed 630 million. This is a very heterogeneous group, with a wide variety of abilities and impairments making it challenging to develop assistive technologies to meet their needsA growing sub-set of this cohort is the aging population, who continue to work but experience mild cognitive changes. Though these these individuals have deep funds of knowledge, and valuable skills they may struggle in the workplace, in part due to lack of access to tools that can address their individual challenges. . The development of new technologies, such as cognitive assistants, has opened the door to more useful solutions. This paper will review the history and challenges of assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and highlight the work in which we are currently engaged.
AB - According to the Journal, 'Inclusion', in 2012, 9% of the US population, or 28.5M Americans, had a cognitive disability. Worldwide the number is believed to exceed 630 million. This is a very heterogeneous group, with a wide variety of abilities and impairments making it challenging to develop assistive technologies to meet their needsA growing sub-set of this cohort is the aging population, who continue to work but experience mild cognitive changes. Though these these individuals have deep funds of knowledge, and valuable skills they may struggle in the workplace, in part due to lack of access to tools that can address their individual challenges. . The development of new technologies, such as cognitive assistants, has opened the door to more useful solutions. This paper will review the history and challenges of assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and highlight the work in which we are currently engaged.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 41
EP - 46
BT - Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications - Papers from the AAAI 2015 Fall Symposium, Technical Report
PB - AI Access Foundation
Y2 - 12 November 2015 through 14 November 2015
ER -