Publication result detail

Mentally challenged as design principles and models for their applications

FIALA, J.; ZENDULKA, J.

Original Title

Mentally challenged as design principles and models for their applications

English Title

Mentally challenged as design principles and models for their applications

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Original Abstract

Touch devices (tablet computers andsmart-phones) have become common part of our life style. We cannot alsooverlook the huge usage of these devices in special education especially inwork with mentally challenged individuals (called "the revolution of specialpedagogy"). Since 2012 inspired by the success of touch devices in specialeducation we have established and led the IT therapy program for mentallychallenged (called simply "computer therapy" and using touch devices at most). As partof this therapy program we have conducted series of usability testing withfocus to identify the most usability HW/SW flaws of tablet devices. Based onour usability testing and usability inspection findings we have proposed 14basic HW/SW design principles (extension and redefinition of previouslyproposed 10 simple design principles) which should be respected in"usable/accessible" design and development of application formentally challenged. Some of these principles were already implemented in ourpractical framework which we used to develop new more usable applications.

English abstract

Touch devices (tablet computers andsmart-phones) have become common part of our life style. We cannot alsooverlook the huge usage of these devices in special education especially inwork with mentally challenged individuals (called "the revolution of specialpedagogy"). Since 2012 inspired by the success of touch devices in specialeducation we have established and led the IT therapy program for mentallychallenged (called simply "computer therapy" and using touch devices at most). As partof this therapy program we have conducted series of usability testing withfocus to identify the most usability HW/SW flaws of tablet devices. Based onour usability testing and usability inspection findings we have proposed 14basic HW/SW design principles (extension and redefinition of previouslyproposed 10 simple design principles) which should be respected in"usable/accessible" design and development of application formentally challenged. Some of these principles were already implemented in ourpractical framework which we used to develop new more usable applications.

Keywords

computer therapy, tablet computer,  model driven engineering, mental disability

Key words in English

computer therapy, tablet computer,  model driven engineering, mental disability

Authors

FIALA, J.; ZENDULKA, J.

RIV year

2017

Released

31.12.2016

ISBN

1895-3735

Periodical

Applied Computer Science

Volume

12

Number

4

State

Republic of Poland

Pages from

28

Pages to

48

Pages count

20

BibTex

@article{BUT130959,
  author="Jiří {Fiala} and Jaroslav {Zendulka}",
  title="Mentally challenged as design principles and models for their applications",
  journal="Applied Computer Science",
  year="2016",
  volume="12",
  number="4",
  pages="28--48",
  issn="1895-3735"
}