Contribution of Clinical Data to the Design of Assistive Systems

Abstract

L'objectif de notre travail est de concevoir une nouvelle méthodologie de conception centrée utilisateur (CCU) dans le domaine de la conception de systèmes de suppléance pour des personnes polyhandicapées résidant dans des Maisons d'Accueil Spécialisée (MAS). Nous avons adopté une approche spécifique en intégrant des données cliniques interprétées des personnes en situation de polyhandicap par le personnel médico-social. C'est une nouvelle approche pour pallier leur difficulté à identifier et/ou à exprimer leurs besoins en matière d'outils de suppléance. Nous allons montrer au travers d'un cas d'étude comment ces données cliniques nous ont permis de concevoir des prototypes moyenne fidélité pour l'aide à la communication et au contrôle d'environnement. MOTS CLÉS Conception centrée utilisateur ; techniques d'interaction ; polyhandicap ; données cliniques.

The Ecosystem’s Involvement in the Appropriation Phase of Assistive Technology: Choice and Adjustment of Interaction Techniques

“…We are implementing the UCD approach of ISO 9241-210 [2] in which we will demonstrate the role of the ecosystem in the UCD activities to design customized AAC. In a previous article, Vella et al, [5] reported the observational methods, including the contribution of both clinical scales and ecosystem expertise. The ecosystem has played an important role in both Understand and specify the context user activity and Specify the user requirements activity (See Fig.…”

“…This one will also integrate a home automation part (music management, television control) and some others functionalities (access to his calendar, meteo, etc.) identified by his ecosystem (professional and familial caregivers) [5]. We codesigned two previous version used to measure the acceptance and the use according the cognitive, attentional and motor abilities of P1.…”

“…We codesigned two previous version used to measure the acceptance and the use according the cognitive, attentional and motor abilities of P1. The main and described in details in [5].…”

“…The codesign team has moved the navigation pictograms to the first block to optimize the access (saving time) to the navigation buttons. In the V0 version, these navigation buttons were located at the bottom of the interface and P1 needed to scan the whole communication block [5]. Ongoing weekly trial carried out by the occupational therapist show that the representation of the interface is suitable even if the number of items is greater than initially envisaged by the ECP (Polyhandicap Cognitive Skills Rating Scale) [17]; scale (from 9 to 12 for the central block).…”

“…In a first work, Vella et al [5] have integrated clinical data in place of the needs expressed by the end user himself/herself in addition to those given by the ecosystem. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the ecosystem also plays a key role in the codesign and appropriation phases of a augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), mainly in the choice and adjustment of interaction techniques through a case study.…”