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This project at University of Colorado focuses on the research and development of cognitive technologies for individuals with cognitive impairments designed to improve their quality of life, and that of their caregivers. The RERC-ACT focuses on three research and three development projects; educational activities, knowledge translation, and utilization; and continuous quality improvement of the overall center.
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The Center’s six research and development activities focus on expanding the cognitive technology standards for work, training, dissemination/knowledge utilization, and commercialization by: (R1) performing usability tests with the myriad of technologies used by persons with cognitive disabilities in order to improve individual consumer selection of the ‘right’ technology as well as facilitating improvements in the design and development of existing, emerging, and new technologies for working-age adults with traumatic brain injury; (R2) developing a tablet-based simulator which enables researchers to test, in a very controlled manner, specific user interface features with specific populations; and (R3) conducting an applied clinical trial of the Non-Linear Context-Aware Interactive Prompting Platform (IPP). The clinical trial has three major development components: (D1) providing an easy-to-configure authoring system for non-technical set-up of the IPP in warehouse environments; (D2) combining workplace business systems monitoring (computerized inventory management/business processes) with navigation and contextualized prompts; and (D3) collecting ongoing data and comparing the prescribed task to actual performance, enabling error detection and correction.