4 million SEK to investigate how interactive assistive touch based technologies for children with intellectual disabilities can be designed
NYHET: 2013-12-16
Researchers Olof Torgersson, Wolmet Barendregt and Eva Eriksson from the Department of Applied IT are granted 4 000 000 SEK from Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond.
The project Touch AT! – Designing interactive assistive touch technologies for children with intellectual disabilities aims to investigate how interactive assistive touch based technologies for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) in grade 6-9 in the Swedish Compulsory school for children with learning disabilities (särskola) can be designed. The project will work with user centred design, and investigate how children with ID, teachers, families, care takers and adults with ID can participate as co-designers in the development process.
The interdisciplinary consortium will consist of researchers from Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology, Learning Communication and IT from the University of Gothenburg as well as other departments at the university and other schools. The goal is to design and evaluate a range of different assistive applications focusing on the child´s social and emotional behaviour, and develop a framwork consisting of methods and means for how to design and evaluate technology for and with this user grous. The project will run for three years.