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Our cognitive capabilities greatly impact the way we use technology. In the case of User Interfaces we know of several of our cognitive capabilities affect how usable the software will be, such as Working Memory. Graphical User Interfaces use different components and Design Patterns in order to interact with the user and achieve a desired task, however, depending on the levels of some of our Executive...
The emotions are a fundamental part of human functioning, as they facilitate the adaptation to environment and its changing conditions. Because to the deficits that have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, the creation of new methodologies to support in learning the skills necessary for daily life is necessary. Children with autism show great interest and easy to use technology as tablets and...
Human Factors have a huge impact on usability and user acceptance of a software. For this reason, knowing the user's characteristics is essential in the software development life cycle. This is a particular challenge for users with Autism, since the nature of the affliction makes each person unique. Adaptive Interfaces can be implemented to solve the usability problem for those cases, but first we...
Today, the environmental monitoring and quality have a growing interest. This promotes the development of new monitoring tools, and especially those with outstanding reliability and response time, and nonstationary features. This paper presents the design and implementation of a transportable gas detection and environmental monitoring device. Ideas taken from the Arduino and Lego constructions are...
Consideration of Human Factors is an important part of the design and specification process for the development of any software system, since the way the user interacts with the system directly affects the usability and overall performance of the application. When designing software for special needs users, the consideration of Human Factors is of vital importance. Such is the case with persons with...
With the use of new technologies, mainly tablets, there are more ways to improve the quality of life of users with special needs. For autistic persons that suffer from speech impairment, expressing themselves can be quite difficult. One of the ways for them to learn a language is by the use of PECS. There is software for tablets based on PECS for tablets, but they mostly don't seem to tackle one of...
Video game production is facing challenges related to the need to increase consideration of player characteristics from the user perspective. This paper presents an initial proposal of factors that may be considered so that video games can be more user-centered. For example, we mention managing affective characteristics and relating player emotions to aspects of video game characters and other entities.
With the advent of new consumer electronics, such as laptops and tablets with touch capabilities, there are more ways to improve the quality of life of users with special needs. Persons that suffer from autism can have a spectrum of impairments that make every case unique, although specialized software can help with some aspects, certain design decisions can affect the usability and effectiveness...
Usability can be attended from early phases by incorporating task and user analysis with framework's components. This fact benefits also the development of mobile applications, obtaining more usable systems tailored to the needs of a specific user with unique characteristics.
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