AAL solutions toward cultural heritage enjoyment

Technology-enhanced support for children with Down Syndrome: A systematic literature review

“…Research available on technologies for special education needs [38] or intellectual disabilities [29] target audiences with Down Syndrome as well, but it is unclear how these technologies conceptualize children with Down Syndrome alone or how these technological fields understand the limits and opportunities for design for such population. Existing research into DS has provided design for applications for diverse types of technologies or investigated a specific context of use such as input devices under general computer use [36], speech and language support [39], and Augmented Reality (AR) [20]. While these map out the design of the systems, there is a lack of data on their impact on the lives of children with Down Syndrome, technology that can support multiple phenotype characteristics, as well as the design rationale behind existing technology support.…”

“…Other two popular types of technologies were Assistive Technology (AT) and Tangible User Interface (TUI). We found AT being used for supporting urban mobility in [18][19][20][21]118,119]. There was a single paper looking at correctly detecting emotions using avatars [90], and one paper [91] for linguistic and last but not least one paper [120] for design of a software development methodology as guidelines for development of AT.…”

“…J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f mostly by AT [19][20][21]118,119] but none were designed for children. All AT designed or evaluated targeted young people.…”

“…As shown by some recent research projects POSEIDON [17][18][19], and Casa+ [20,21], the inclusion of individuals with Down Syndrome has been improved as they are receiving more appropriate support (e.g., one-to-one education sessions), increasing the opportunities for careers, promoting independent life, and autonomy [6]. It has been a challenge to design technology to cater to their disabilities as combined characteristics rather than individual conditions.…”

The IoT as a Key in the Sensitive Balance between Development Needs and Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Resources in Italian Heritage Cities

“…In some cases, the focus is on the playful engagement, e.g., in the interactive and immersive gamification, with wearable devices and smartphones, or otherwise aimed at the user's entertainment [76,77]. In general, the common pursed principle can be defined as 'context-aware content delivery', through the definition of personalized visit paths [78,79], sometimes considering also specific physical or cognitive disabilities [58,80,81]. The tracking of visitors and their spatio-temporal visit patterns, in order to deduce their preferences and impressions, is mainly directed towards increasing the possibility of replicated visits in time, in a sort of fidelization strategy.…”