Links to Android Emulater - http://appinventor.googlelabs.com

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/setup/

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/setup/setupmac.html

either of these will work then just follow the steps.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/tutorials/index.html

this one is tutorials and has a map tour which could be useful to us

Lauren Murphy

Power Point (Draft 1)

Stephanie Botrel

Questions to ask visitors from Cope Foundation

What's your name?
Where are you from?
What do you do at Dorus?
What is involved in your FETAC course?
What aspects of remembering do you have certain difficulty with?
What's the age range in your class?
What things do you have difficulty remembering in general?
What do you think would help you?
What kind of subjects do you do in your classes?
What would you like to be when your older?
Do you have an ipod or an iphone?
Would you have difficulty using an iphone or touch screen hardware?
Would you find it hard to look at a small screen?

Alan, Stephanie, Lauren, Christine

Group Meeting 16/02/11

We came up with an interactive application for an i phone or i pod. As our problem requires you to have the information you forget at hand when you need it, we felt that this application would fit the bill.

- It involves you choosing a character from a few options, perhaps 10 options.
- You then enter in all your information that you normally forget into the appropriate icons e.g. if you forget your shoe size you enter it into the clothes shop icon or your bank account number into the bank icon.
- Once this is saved you can simply go to the application when you need to remember something.
- Application could be on a phone, i pod, interactive kerring, bracelet or watch.

Icons and Information Needed:

Post Office/Bank:

Phone Number
Address
Account Number
PPS Number

Clothes Shop:

Phone Number
Address
Shoe size
Clothes size

Home:

Address
Phone Number
Parents Name
Alarm Code

School/College:

Address
Phone Number
Student Number
Log in Information
E-mail Address
Time table
Name of classrooms

Bus Station:

Address
Phone Number
Route you take home/No bus
How much the ticket costs

Doctor:

Address
Phone Number
Medical Card
Name of Doctor
Allergies
Blood type

Restaurants:

Address
Phone Number
Allergies
Opening Times

Taxi:

Phone Numbers
Local Taxi Ranks

Work:

Cope
Address
Phone Number
Clock in Number
Alarm codes
Code for till
Employee number
Hours for the week

Day Planner:

Contacts of people your meeting up with
Reminders


Critisism:

What if phone or i pod was stolen?
There are security issues which must be solved!
We need to do critical research!
User testing is extremely important!

Christine, Lauren, Alan & Stephanie

Research on Intellectual Disability for User Testing

What is Intellectual Disability?

Intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child. Children with intellectual disability may take longer to learn to speak, walk, and take care of their personal needs such as dressing or eating. They are likely to have trouble learning in school. They will learn, but it will take them longer. There may be some things they cannot learn.

Causes of Intellectual Disability?

The most common are:
Genetic conditions.
Problems during pregnancy.
Problems at birth.
Health problems.

Signs of Intellectual Disability?

There are many signs of intellectual disability. For example, children with intellectual disability may:
• find it hard to remember things,
• learn to talk later, or have trouble speaking,
• sit up, crawl, or walk later than other children;
• not understand how to pay for things,
• have trouble understanding social rules,
• have trouble solving problems, and/or
• have trouble seeing the consequences of their actions,
• have trouble thinking logically.

What About School?

A child with an intellectual disability can do well in school but is likely to need individualized help.
Many children with an intellectual disability need help with adaptive skills, which are skills needed to live, work, and play in the community. Teachers and parents can help a child work on these skills at both school and home. Some of these skills include:
• communicating with others;
• taking care of personal needs (dressing, bathing, going to the bathroom);
• health and safety;
• home living (helping to set the table, cleaning the house, or cooking dinner);
• social skills (manners, knowing the rules of conversation, getting along in a group, playing a game);
• reading, writing, and basic math; and
• as they get older, skills that will help them in the workplace.

Tips for Teachers

• Learn as much as you can about intellectual disability.
• Be as concrete as possible. Demonstrate what you mean rather than just giving verbal directions. Rather than just relating new information verbally, show a picture. And rather than just showing a picture, provide the student with hands-on materials and experiences and the opportunity to try things out.

• Recognize that you can make an enormous difference in this student's life! Find out what the student's strengths and interests are, and emphasize them. Create opportunities for success.

• Break longer, new tasks into small steps. Demonstrate the steps. Have the student do the steps, one at a time. Provide assistance, as necessary.

• Give the student immediate feedback.

• Teach the student academic and life skills such as daily living, social skills, and occupational awareness and exploration, as appropriate. Involve the student in group activities or clubs. 

• Work together with the student's parents and other school personnel to create and implement an educational plan tailored to meet the student's needs. Regularly share information about how the student is doing at school and at home.

Stephanie Botrel

Multimedia Solutions

http://springpadit.com/home/;jsessionid=4BF4D335A435BC1AFDBE706CE5068374.SPAD_NODE6

http://www.evernote.com/

http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/rfid-bracelet-helps-you-remember.html

Christine Roche

Brainstorming

We brainstormed ideas as a group the second we got out brief. These are the things we came up with:

* i phone application-touch image for information needed e.g. shoe for shoe size etc.
* Something they have on them all the time e.g. phone.
* Kering device.
* Touch screen device.
* Audio and visual so to accommodate for all disabilities.
* Finger Print Scanner - scan finger and it lets you know your information.
* Some gadget in your wallet.
* Game - put all information into a game.
* Tomogotchi.
* Little electronic image onscreen that tells you the info you need e.g. a talking paperclip.
* Song to remind you of thing you need to remember.

Christine Roche, Alan Spillane, Lauren Murphy, Stephanie Botrel