CLever

Gerhard Fischer gerhard@cs.colorado.edu

The mission of the Cognitive Levers (CLever) project is to provide computationally enhanced environments that assist people with a wide range of cognitive disabilities as well as their support communities.

Research Themes:

• People with disabilities form “a universe of one” requiring research in personalization, user modeling, and adaptive and adaptable systems.
  
  
• Different learning paths are needed to match individual needs and learning styles. Memory and attention prompting systems can be designed with architectures that accommodate the diverse needs of persons with unique capabilities and cognitive deficits.
  
  
• Research to support lifelong learning, and development of an infrastructure in which allows task-relevant knowledge to be shared among different communities of participation and interest (e.g., teachers and parents do not have the time and the knowledge to identify the most important devices and explore their adequacy to specific needs).
  
  
• To be independent and included members of society, people with cognitive disabilities must have viable mobility options for accessing community activities, services, and opportunities. To support persons with attention or memory disabilities, new socio-technical systems must be designed that reduce or eliminate the cognitive barriers in existing public transportation systems, while allowing caregivers to train, monitor, and assess persons in their care.