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to be created and shared by caregivers of different abilities and experiences; and (2)

MAPS-PR, for clients, provides external scripts that reduce the cognitive demands

for the clients by changing the task.

7.3.1 The MAPS-Design-Environment (MAPS-DE)

he scripts needed to effectively support users are specific for particular tasks, creat-

ing the requirement that the people who know about the clients and the tasks (i.e.,

the local caregivers rather than a technologist far removed from the action) must be

able to develop scripts. Caregivers generally have no specific professional technology

training nor are they interested in becoming computer programmers. his creates

the need for design environments with extensive end-user support to allow caregiv-

ers to create, store, and share scripts [10]. Figure 7.3 shows MAPS-DE for creating

complex multimodal prompting sequences. he prototype allows sound, pictures,

and video to be assembled by using a film-strip-based scripting metaphor.

MAPS-DE supports a multiscript version that allows caregivers to present the

looping and forking behavior that is critical for numerous task support situations.

MAPS-DE (see Figure 7.3) is implemented on a Microsoft OS (Windows 2000 or

XP) platform connecting to and supporting PDAs that run the WIN-Compact

Edition (WIN-CE) operating system.