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In Depth Tutorials and Information
Procedures:.
here are several kinds of procedures in the MAPS uses several
kinds of procedures in setting up the system in using it to guide task per-
formance. Included in the tasks required to set up the system are task seg-
mentation (i.e., breaking the task down into sections that are of the correct
cognitive level), task rehearsal (i.e., performing the task yourself to ensure
no implicit steps are left out), and script building. he construction of scripts
(after the outlining has been done) requires collecting photographs of the
task with a digital camera and recoding the verbal prompts with a computer
and mike. he caregiver must master the art of using the MAPS-DE using
the provided tutorial. Script assembly requires using the MAPS-DE editor
and the operating system to identify and insert script steps into the script
database.
Next, the caregiver has to transfer the script to the MAPS-PR from the care-
giver's PC. he end user has to initially learn how to use the prompter by
working with the caregiver and perhaps the MAPS designer-support person-
nel. he young adult with cognitive disabilities then is ready to use the script
on the MAPS-PR to accomplish the task, which is embeded in a larger set of
ADL and IADL tasks that he/she can do without external support.
Finally the caregiver has to review the script log to see if the script needs to have
certain steps collapsed into a trigger step (collapsing scaffolding) or expended
into several additional steps because the end user found performing them too
difficult (expanding scaffolding).
Laws,. statutes,. and. regulations:.
The MAPS system is not impacted by
laws and regulations except inasmuch as its purchase is aided by state
funding.
Data. and. data. structures:
MAPS stores external wave files (for the record-
ing prompts) and jpg files (for the prompt images) in the caregiver's PC.
Completed scripts are stored in a Sybase database on the caregiver's PC and
scripts on the MAPS-PR are stored on a mobile lightweight version of the
Sybase database. Additionally a Sybase database of template scripts is stored
on a networked server, accessible through the Internet. Design documents
used in creating scripts (i.e., task segmentation notes) may be stored in text
documents. MAPS-PR stores a log produced by the use of a given script in a
text file for later analysis.
7.4 Conculation
Good AT design is then best approached from the STE perspective. he creation of
AT for persons with cognitive disabilities is particularly a STE issue due to the com-
plexities of relationship and invasiveness ofthe technology. Following on this is the
question ofhow best the STE approach can be formalized in AT design. Frameworks
such as the ETHICS method [37] and the decomposition into facets as presented by
