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Praccal Use of Smart Devices as Cognive Prosthecs

Michelle Ranae Wild

SMART DEVICE OVERVIEW

Cognive Prosthec Device

• Any electronic based product or system, whether acquired as a retail item, a modified retail item, or a customized one, that is used by an individual to compensate for cognive-communicaon impairments that affect his/her ability to parcipate in acvies of daily living (ADLs) and higher level ADLs (IADLs) including work. Veterans Health Administraon

• Such devices include: – Smart Phones – Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) – Watches with alarm features – Pagers with reminder features, etc.

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Cognive Prosthec

• Smart devices (e.g., iPhone, iPad, Android devices, Windows Mobile devices) are being used as cognive prosthecs. The concept of using a smart device as a cognive prosthec for cognive issues faced aer damage to the brain is analogous to how amputees rounely use mechanical limbs, etc to help aer injury. • Smart devices can be used to keep a calendar and/or todo list, take pictures, idenfy current locaon and get direcons, set alarms for daily tasks, record audio, play music, etc. • Gartner predicts that smartphones will outnumber personal computers by 2013. In addion, it is esmated that as many as 82 million Americans will use tablet computers by 2015. According to the Pew Research Center ~60% of Americans accessed the Internet from their phones last year as compared to only 25% in 2009.

Smart Devices Smart Device Pros Cons iOS (29%) • Consistent user • Limited expandability interface across iOS • No SD card devices (i.e., iPhone, • iPhone only available on iPod Touch, iPad) AT&T and Verizon • Over 425,000 apps wireless networks and available in App Store requires data plan • Intuive & easy to learn • iPod Touch and iPad are available with Wi-Fi only (no data plan required)

Market share data source: The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track report, Aug 22, 2011

Smart Devices Smart Device Pros Cons

Android (52%) • Extremely versale • Less intuive than iOS • Expandable • User interface varies • Over 200,000 apps based on OS and carrier available in the Android Marketplace • Available from all wireless phone companies • Available through pre- paid wireless service (e.g., Virgin Mobile) without a data plan

Market share data source: The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track report, Aug 22, 2011

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Smart Devices Smart Device Pros Cons

RIM Blackberry (>11%) • Secure • Less intuive • Expandable • Over 10,000 apps available in the Blackberry App world • Available from all wireless phone companies • Qwerty keyboard

Market share data source: The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track report, Aug 22, 2011

Smart Devices Smart Device Pros Cons

Windows Mobile 7 • Consistent user • Newest OS (>5%) interface • Limited apps • Social network integraon

Market share data source: The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track report, Aug 22, 2011

Smart Device Apps

Nave Apps Addional Apps (included as part of device Operang (apps available for purchase through App System) Store or Android Market Place) • Calendar • Pocket Informant • Clock • Awesome Note • Alarms • Appigo ToDo • Timer • Breathe 2 Relax • Stopwatch • Speak it! • Contacts • QuickOffice • Notes • Evernote • Maps • Pocket Money or Expense • iPod • 1Password • Photos • SimpleMind+ • Safari

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Most Common Cognive Issues

• Aenon & Distracbility • Aenon to Detail • Learning & Memory • Execuve Funconing – Iniaon – Planning & Organizaon – Time Awareness/Management – Perseveraon

Source: Returning to Work aer Brain Injury A Strategy Guide for Job Coaches Brain Injury Assoc. of New Jersey

THE MAKING COGNITIVE CONNECTIONS® APPROACH

Making Cognive Connecons Descripon • Emphasizes the benefits of smartphone devices as memory/cognive prosthec devices. • Teaches the fundamental technical skills necessary to operate a smart device while simultaneously drawing a parallel to the cognive skills that underlie the development of those technical skills. • Focuses on the cognive skills required to use the device and then has the users apply those same cognive skills to their everyday lives making this approach praccal, concrete, relevant, and transferable.

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Making Cognive Connecons Examples Skill Definion Smart Device Life Examples Using Smart Example Devices wih Everyday Life Examples Categorizaon Grouping Idenfy an Sort the laundry When taking objects or appt. as into piles for notes in an app ideas belonging to a each family like Awesome together specific member or into Note place the according category like darks and lights; note in an to common work or sort mail into appropriate folder features medical bill, junk mail, to categorize it for things to read future reference later, etc.

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY

Live Demo

• Time Management • Memory • Organizaon/Notetaking • Stress • Communicaon Skills • Cognive Games • App Purchase & Download (iTunes)

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Time Management

• Clock (nave) • Calendar (nave) • Pocket Informant ($12.99)

Memory

• Calendar (nave) • VoCal ($1.99) • Appigo ToDo ($4.99) • SimpleMind+ (free) • Camera/Video (nave)

Organizaon/Notetaking

• Awesome Note ($3.99) • QuickOffice ($12.99) • Evernote (free) • Penulmate (iPad -- $1.99) • iThoughts (iPhone $7.99; iPad $9.99)

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Stress

• Breath 2 Relax (free) • Mood Tracker (free) • Pranayama (free)

Communicaon Skills

• Speak It! (text to speech -- $1.99) • Dragon Dictaon (voice recognion -- free) • My Voice (free)

Games

• Brain Challenge ($4.99) • Blocks (free) • Cut the Rope ($0.99) • FreeCell (free) • Where’s My Water? ($0.99)

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iTunes

• App Store Overview • App Store Purchase Process

ID4THEWEB.COM/APPREVIEWS

App Review Web site (Reviews)

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Michelle Ranae Wild [email protected] (949) 310-3202

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