Colloquium Details
SmartCare: the Importance of Creating Life Histories for People with Cognitive Disabilities
| Author: | Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado, Boulder |
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| Date: | December 06, 2004 |
| Time: | 3:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
| Host: | Stephen Fickas |
Note: Special Day
Abstract
The SmartCare project (a project embedded in the framework of the CLever project) identifies and designs appropriate technologies that (1) assist clients with cognitive disabilities and (2) empower caregivers and organizations with the tools and information needed to provide clients with opportunities for lifelong learning and personal growth. The project addresses the challenges of capturing the needs, interests, and personal desires of clients. A client's life history plays an important role in two particular situations: caregiver transition (when a caregiver enters or leaves a consumer's support network) and client transition (when a consumer moves to a different living environment, e.g. when a consumer leaves the public school system and enters an assisted living environment).
In our initial work we have identified three major requirements to creating and using a personal life history:
- collecting information that describes a client's preferences, experiences, and ambitions;
- representing, storing, and indexing information so it can be used during personal life experiences and relevant tasks;
- intelligently protecting, accessing and sharing appropriate information with other organizations during transitions, or when a client's support network evolves, while carefully respecting the privacy of the client.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/