A gesture recognition system to transition autonomously through vocational tasks for individuals with cognitive impairments

• Published in: Research in developmental disabilities Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 2064 - 2068
• Main Authors: Chang, Yao-Jen, Chen, Shu-Fang, Chuang, An-Fu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition Disorders - psychology; Cognition Disorders - rehabilitation; Cognitive impairment; Cognitive impairments; Community-based rehabilitation; Dementia - psychology; Dementia - rehabilitation; Education of Intellectually Disabled - methods; Employment skills; Employment, Supported - methods; Female; Gestures; Humans; Instructional Effectiveness; Intellectual Disability - psychology; Intellectual Disability - rehabilitation; Intervention; Job Skills; Kinect; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Retardation; Nonverbal Communication; Nonverbal Communication - psychology; Prompting; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Quality of Life; Recognition (Psychology); Reeducation. Readaptation. Sociotherapy; Schizophrenia, Paranoid - psychology; Schizophrenia, Paranoid - rehabilitation; Sequences; Task prompting; Technology Uses in Education; Treatments; Vocational Education; Vocational Education - methods; Kinect; Cognitive impairments; Task prompting; Community-based rehabilitation; Human; Cognitive disorder; Developmental disorder; Experimental study; Socioprofessional rehabilitation; Treatment; Reeducation; Gesture; Automatic recognition; Computer aid
• ISSN: 0891-4222; 1873-3379; 1873-3379
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.08.010

► For individuals to manage vocational task steps independently, a Kinect-based prompting system was employed with success. ► Single subject research design was used with two adults who were diagnosed with cognitive disability. ► Data showed that the participants improve vocational performance during the intervention phases. This study assessed the possibility of training two individuals with cognitive impairments using a Kinect-based task prompting system. This study was carried out according to an ABAB sequence in which A represented the baseline and B represented intervention phases. Data showed that the two participants significantly increased their target response, thus improving vocational job skills during the intervention phases. Practical and developmental implications of the findings are discussed.