[CSEE Talk] talk: User Interface Design for Cognitive Assistive Technology, 1:30pm Thur 4/4, ITE404

[Tim Finin]

        ACM Mid-Atlantic Special Interest Group on Accessibility

       User Interface Design and Functional Gains from Cognitive
    Assistive Technology: Treading on the Frontiers of Neuroscience

			   Dr. Elliot Cole
		 Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics.

	      1:30 Thursday, 4 April 2013, ITE 404, UMBC

Assistive Technology can and should be viewed as a therapy modality,
by increasing functioning as a technology effect, and sometimes by an
increase in underlying abilities through one or more neuroscience
mechanisms.  User interface design has been a core technique in
achieving gains in the cognitive dimensions.  Patient-Centered Design
was developed as a methodology to help achieve these gains.  This
methodology seems to be a close relative of Ability-Based Design.
Case studies will help demonstrate effects achieved with
Patient-Centered Design.  Older psychological and the emerging
neuroscience paradigm will be presented.

Elliot Cole, PhD is the founder of the Institute for Cognitive
Prosthetics. He brings his training in human-centered computing to
developing technology and techniques which address cognitive
disabilities from brain injury. The Institute's successful R&D efforts
came from a multidisciplinary staff from clinical and computing
specialties working closely together and focusing on the
rehabilitation needs of the individual patient. This approach has
generated deep knowledge of the cognitive disabilities computing
domain. For over a decade, the Institute had a "lab" brain injury
cognitive rehabilitation facility. Dr. Cole was an associate professor
at Drexel University and a research associate at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he is currently a Visiting Scholar.  His book
Patient-Centered Design of Cognitive Assistive Technology for
Traumatic Brain Injury Telerehabilitation is being published in April
by Morgan and Claypool as part of the series Synthesis Lectures on
Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies.

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