RT Journal Article
T1 Accessible Ubiquitous Services for Supporting Daily Activities: A Case Study with Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
A1 Aizpurua, Amaia
A1 Miñón, Raúl
A1 Gamecho, Borja
A1 Cearreta, Idoia
A1 Arrue, Myriam
A1 Garay-Vitoria, Nestor
AB Ubiquitous environments have considerable potential to provide services supporting daily activities (using public transportation to and from workplace, using ATM machines, selecting and purchasing goods in ticketing or vending machines, etc.) in order to assist people with disabilities. Nevertheless, the ubiquitous service providers generally supply generic user interfaces which are not usually accessible for all potential end users. In this article, a case study to verify the adequacy of the user interfaces automatically generated by the Egoki system for two supporting ubiquitous services adapted to young adults with moderate intellectual disabilities was presented. The task completion times and the level of assistance required by participants when using the interfaces were analyzed. Participants were able to access services through a tablet and successfully complete the tasks, regardless of their level of expertise and familiarity with the service. Moreover, results indicate that their performance and confidence improved with practice, as they required fewer direct verbal and pointer cues to accomplish tasks. By applying observational methods during the experimental sessions, several potential improvements for the automated interface generation process were also detected.
SN 1044-7318
YR 2018
FD 2018-12-28
LA eng
NO Aizpurua , A , Miñón , R , Gamecho , B , Cearreta , I , Arrue , M & Garay-Vitoria , N 2018 , ' Accessible Ubiquitous Services for Supporting Daily Activities: A Case Study with Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities ' , International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction , vol. 35 , no. 17 , pp. 1608-1629 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2018.1559534
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
NO This research work was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government and by the European Regional Development Fund [projects TIN2014-52665-C2-1-R and TIN2017-85409-P], and by the Basque Government, Department of Education, Universities and Research under grant [IT980-16]. Authors would like to thank to GUREAK group and specially the job coaches and participants in this case study. In addition, authors would like to thank Julio Abascal for the support he gave through this research and Edurne Larraza-Mendiluze for her help while preparing the figures included in this article.
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