Design after design to bridge between people living with cognitive or sensory impairments, their friends and proxies

Task Support for People with Cognitive Impairments and Their Caregivers

Design Challenges for Mobile Assistive Technologies Applied to People with Cognitive Impairments

Mobile devices can be used in order to provide assistance to people with cognitive impairments wherever they go and increase their independence. Due to the limited capacities of this population and the constraints related to mobile devices, special care must be used when developing software for them. In this paper, guidelines are proposed in order to help designing mobile assistive technologies...

Designing space for people with cognitive or functional impairments

Often described as frozen music, architecture functions as a fixation agent for contemporaneous or past thinking on appropriate space for embarking on or ending a journey. This type of architecture becomes visual to its essence. It interacts with the human capacity of seeing in order to be perceived correctly. The spatial design describes the progression from the immobile built environment, whi...

Can studies of pain help to bridge the gap between sensory and social impairments in autism?

In May of 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will release its 5th edition. In this edition, the DSM-IV-TR categories of autistic disorder, Asperger disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified) will be combined into a single “autism spectrum disorder” (ASD) category. ASD will be diagnosed according ...

Easy-To-Use Social Network Service for People with Cognitive or Speech and Language Impairments

Social media has become an important tool for social networking. However, most social networking services are very challenging for people with learning disabilities or cognitive impairments. The problems are mostly related to understanding the different concepts of the environment and related terminology, but the accessibility and usability problems common to all internet services also apply. T...