Comparison of pocket-computer memory aids for people with brain injury

Wright, Patricia; Rogers, Nick; Hall, Christine; Wilson, Barbara A.; Evans, Jonathan J.; Emslie, Hazel; Bartram, Christine

doi:10.1080/02699050110045161

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“…Facilitators reported that the morning reminder was a minimal intervention compared to their typical pattern of providing students with prompts throughout the day related to their schedules. Results from this study are similar to the success in small-scale adult studies of handheld organizers (Kim et al, 1999(Kim et al, , 2000Kirsch et al, 2004;Wright et al, 2001). They all suggested that handheld organizers enhanced the ability of patients to complete suggested tasks with less direct intervention from those around them.…”

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Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Gillette

DePompei

2008

Psychology in the Schools

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The project studied the on-time behavior of 35 students with intellectual disabilities (ID) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) under three conditions -times and tasks list, paper planner, and two different personal data assistants (PDAs). Students participated for two 4-week periods, receiving one morning reminder during Period 1 and no reminders during Period 2. Students were on time more often using a PDA compared to a list (p < .024) or a planner (p < .002). Students were on time 50% more often in Period 1 with a single daily morning reminder as compared to no reminder across all conditions. When applying results, clinicians and researchers should note that only the alarm function prompting on-time behavior was studied, and the influence of the small sample size and short time frame. Future researchers will find a framework for studying PDAs and cell phones with larger samples, over longer time periods, and with a wider range of functions. C 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Many persons with cognitive disabilities as a result of intellectual disability (ID, mental retardation) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) have difficulties with organization and memory that can interfere with successful management of activities of daily living and contribute to loss of personal independence (Hart, Hawkey, & Whyte, 2002;Knight, Devereux, & Godfrey, 1998). A number of interventions have been designed to enhance the ability of these individuals to use memory and organizational skills. Attention has often centered on the use of external aids to cognition (Parente & DiCesare, 1991;Sohlberg et al., 2007) . Specifically, the use of electronic devices may provide a dependable compensatory strategy made possible by advances in computer technology (Bergman, 2002;Wade & Troy, 2001). Generic electronic technologies such as personal data assistants (PDA) can provide a platform for enhancing memory and organization skills and may be beneficial to these individuals. Useful functions in these devices include a calendar, appointment alarms, to-do lists, contact information, and a calculator. Electronic alarms within the calendar function may be of particular interest to interventionists, because audible alarms can provide a prompt that might otherwise need to be administered by a caregiver.A partnership among the University of Akron, The Brain Injury Association of America, Temple University, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, and Spaulding Hospital, known as the Assistive Technology and Cognitive Disability Collaborative, was funded by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research to examine the potential of generic electronic organizers to enhance the independence of adults and children with memory and organization problems. The first stage of our research agenda included a survey of children and adults with ID and TBI in order to examine the use of and preferences related to electronic organizers. Results of the three surveys (one with adults with TBI, one focusing on adults with ID, and one focusing on children with ID or TB...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Gillette

DePompei

2008

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Twenty-four usability trials did not contribute evidence on treatment effect as no experimental data was reported. Finally, two included studies (Sohlberg, Fickas, Hung, & Fortier, 2007;Wright et al, 2001), despite trialing ATC with a clinical population, did not address treatment effect.…”

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Cognitive Function and Assistive Technology for Cognition: A Systematic Review

Gillespie

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O’Neill

2011

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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The relationship between assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and cognitive function was examined using a systematic review. A literature search identified 89 publications reporting 91 studies of an ATC intervention in a clinical population. The WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was used to categorize the cognitive domains being assisted and the tasks being performed. Results show that ATC have been used to effectively support cognitive functions relating to attention, calculation, emotion, experience of self, higher level cognitive functions (planning and time management) and memory. The review makes three contributions: (1) It reviews existing ATC in terms of cognitive function, thus providing a framework for ATC prescription on the basis of a profile of cognitive deficits, (2) it introduces a new classification of ATC based on cognitive function, and (3) it identifies areas for future ATC research and development. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1-19)

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“…Although the ease of use of such software applications varies across the range of devices available and the platform on which they run (PalmOS/PocketPC/EPOC), they are not designed for memory-impaired people. Wright et al [62] conducted a study in which an interface specifically designed for brain-injured users was employed on two styles of PDAs. It was found that users who had suffered traumatic brain injury could use the PDAs successfully as memory aids, pointing to the need for a custom-designed interface for such users.…”

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Issues surrounding the user-centred development of a new interactive memory aid

Inglis

Szymkowiak

Gregor

et al. 2003

Universal Access in the Information Society

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Memory problems are often associated with the ageing process and are one of the commonest effects of brain injury. Electronic memory aids have been successfully used as a compensatory approach to provide reminders to individuals with prospective memory problems. This paper describes the usability issues surrounding the development of a new memory aid rendered on a personal digital assistant (PDA); in addition, it discusses the importance of a user-centred design process for the development of the memory aid and preliminary qualitative findings from interviews and focus groups of disabled or elderly users.

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Comparison of pocket-computer memory aids for people with brain injury

Cited by 96 publications

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Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Do PDAs enhance the organization and memory skills of students with cognitive disabilities?

Cognitive Function and Assistive Technology for Cognition: A Systematic Review

Issues surrounding the user-centred development of a new interactive memory aid

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