Healthcare cognitive assistants (HCAs) are intelligent systems or agents that interact with
users in a context-aware and adaptive manner to improve their health outcomes by …

During face-to-face conversations, adults with autism frequently use atypical rhythms and
sounds in their speech (prosody), which can result in misunderstandings and …

Individuals with cognitive-communication disorders (CCDs) due to neurological conditions,
such as traumatic brain injury and aphasia, experience difficulties in communication and …

Over 60% of adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in the US are unemployed; this is more
than twice the unemployment rate of the general population [19]. Of the adults with ID who …

Abstract Aim In Canada, 100,000 people suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year. The
prevalence of moderate to severe TBI is highest for young men, who will live an average of …

Cognitive impairment such as memory loss, an impaired executive function and decreasing
motivation can gradually undermine instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). With an …

Technology-driven cognitive assistance is often either excessive or insufficient, and then not
necessarily helpful, because of the inadaptability to the needs and abilities of people with …

This book introduces zero-effort technologies (ZETs), an emerging class of technologies that
require little or no effort from the people who use them. ZETs use advanced computing …

People with memory impairments following an acquired brain injury stand to benefit from
smartphone apps as memory aids. Due, in part, to usability issues they use smartphone …

This paper first sketches a living lab infrastructure installed in an alternative housing unit
built to host 10 people with traumatic brain injury. It then presents the first research project in …