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Experiences and challenges in designing non-traditional interfaces to enhance the everyday life of children with intellectual disabilities
(2014)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Guerrero L.A.
Some experiences regarding children with disabilities carried out in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Spain have contributed to realize the importance of reading in order to enhance their daily life activities, independence and social integration. This article describes a qualitative study to understand general issues related to the design of non-traditional technologies for children with intellectual disabilities. A methodological approach is described and explained through the results of exploratory surveys and interviews. According to the information obtained from experts and the method of literacy acquisition proposed by Troncoso and Del Cerro, the design of a smart kit using non-traditional user interfaces is presented. A preliminary evaluation of the first prototype is described. The paper concludes by reflecting upon the importance of literacy acquisition and the challenges to design non-traditional interfaces to support learning of children with intellectual disabilities. The development of the phase two of the prototype and empirical evaluation is part of the future work. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.
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AINIDIU: An experience among university, organizations and government
(2013)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
The influence of computer science in society is very common today, particularly in education. This article describes a report of an experience in the area of disability, and how it integrated university, organizations and government. The personal experience of the author with your SEN (Special Educational Needs) daughter allowed to create the project AINIDIU (Intelligent Agent for Children with Visual Impairment). It is a software that facilitates the interaction and integration of children with visual impairment in their educational and family environment. The paper describes the background, technological structure and assessment methodology of AINIDIU software. It also describes the diffusion and socialization phase. Finally, the technology transfer process that took place, which benefited about 1,000 visually impaired children through The Misión "Manuela Espejo", program of the Vicepresidencia de la República del Ecuador. © 2013 IEEE.
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Use of tangible interfaces to support a literacy system in children with intellectual disabilities
(2014)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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López G.
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Guerrero L.A.
People with intellectual disabilities should develop reading and writing skills since children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities, as buying in a store, taking medicaments or getting a job. In this paper we present a prototype that uses tangible interfaces and augmented objects to support a literacy method for children with intellectual disabilities. The prototype was evaluated and the preliminary results showed that the system can not only assists teachers in the classroom, but also helps to better manage the interaction with children and non-traditional interfaces. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
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A Virtual Repository of Learning Objects to Support Literacy of SEN Children
(2015)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Guerrero L.A.
Literacy development is an essential process for special education needs children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities and hence their social inclusion. It is a big challenge for parents and teachers, but it is easier if the process begins since childhood. In this paper, we present Tic@ula, a virtual repository for creating, centralizing, and sharing learning objects based on the IEEE learning object metadata standard. The framework aims to enhance the adaptation of the resources for literacy to the Costa Rican reality and extend its application to children with moderate intellectual disability. The educational resources are based on the literacy method proposed by Spanish authors in their book Down Syndrome: Reading and Writing. The method and the resources were evaluated in a case study. The preliminary results showed that the method cannot only be applied in local context but also assists teachers and parents in the design and use of literacy resources for special education. © 2013 IEEE.
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Kiteracy: A kit of tangible objects to strengthen literacy skills in children with Down syndrome
(2015)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Jaen J.
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Carpio M.A.
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Guerrero L.A.
Kiteracy is an educational kit designed to improve the literacy process of children with Down syndrome by enabling higher levels of interaction. The kit is based on two Spanish literacy methods: global and phonics. In this work, we present a qualitative study based on video-recorded sessions with twelve children from a Down syndrome institution. The study analyzes three forms of interactions: cardboard, multi-touch and tangible. The task carried out by special education teachers and children in the experimental sessions involved working in pairs (Teacherchild) and autonomous self-learning (child only). Through the sessions, we identified situations in which the teacher took the control in the cardboard version. In the multi-touch version, both the teacher and the child shared the control. However in the tangible version the child took the control. In the self-learning sessions, we observed that multi-touch and tangible interaction seems to offer an enjoyable time for children. Surveys and interviews with teachers revealed that tangible objects offered greater adaptability to create playful reading strategies. © 2015 ACM.
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Designing assistive technologies for children with disabilities: A case study of a family living with a daughter with intellectual disability
(2016)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Altamirano I.
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Arias H.
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Jadán J.
Children with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups of the population. They experience social exclusion and inequity, as do their difficulties to integrate into society. Many families raising children with disabilities try to do everything to improve their quality of life. This paper describes a case study of an Ecuadorian family who was encouraged to integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the everyday life of their girl with intellectual and language disabilities. The experience with the most popular technologies at home-Computer, tablet, smartphone, and videogame console-motivated the whole family to adapt and design assistive technologies for their daughter. Their motivation allowed us to find people and institutions who supported the design of ICT for different disabilities: AINIDIU, HELPMI, CANDI, LUCKI, MAGIC GLASS, JADAN VERBAL, TIC@ULA and KITERACY. An interdisciplinary group of experts participated in the development of these technologies: A Computer Engineer, a Phycologist, a blind person, students and Especial Education teachers. Since 2009, about 50 children with disabilities and 20 Especial Education teachers have been involved in the evaluation of the prototypes. With the support of Universidad Indoamérica and Ecuadorian Government, 1500 children with visual impairment were benefited with the software AINIDIU in some provinces of Ecuador. The article describes the history of this great experience. © Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
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Improving the interaction of Down syndrome students through the use of RFID technology
(2016)
Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Guerrerob L.A.
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Sharmac T.
Interactive systems aimed at educational environments are becoming increasingly important in students learning. This paper focuses on the application of Radio Frequency (RFID) technology in early literacy process of Down syndrome students. An experimental study was carried out in Costa Rica among four special education teachers and six Down syndrome students of a Special Education School. The research aimed to measure the interaction between participants and three user interfaces: traditional interface based on cardboard cards, Graphic User Interface (GUI) based on digital cards and Tangible User Interface (TUI) based on 3D letters and low cost toys with RFID tags. The method consisted of the registration of occurrences in the behavior of participants. The results obtained from the application of the Friedman test confirmed the exploratory findings carried out in a qualitative previous work, in which TUI improves the interaction in early literacy process of Down syndrome students. © 2016 IEEE.
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Neuropsychological evaluation of inhibitory control and interference control: Validation of experimental tasks in the ecuadorian context
(2017)
Ramos Galarza, Carlos
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Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Ramos D.
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Bolaños M.
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Ramos V.
This article reports a study in which three experimental tasks (SIMON, Go / No-Go and Stroop Victoria) were adapted and validated to evaluate the inhibitory control and interference control in a sample of Ecuadorian students. The sample consisted of 100 students between 6 and 15 years old (M = 10.13 years, SD = 2.48) belonging to the public education system of Ecuador. The process followed in the adaptation and validation was through the linguistic translation of the experiments, followed by an expert judgment and a pilot study. In the results it was found that there are no statistically significant differences in the measures that assess the inhibitory control and the interference considering the sociodemographic variables of the participants as comparison factors. In the correlation analysis we found a statistically significant association between the measurements of the experiments. We conclude by analyzing the associations found and underlining the need to continue providing evidence in the research line of adaptation and validation of test for using in neuropsychological evaluation.
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Fundamental concepts in the neuropsychological theory [Conceptos fundamentales en la teoría neuropsicológica]
(2017)
Ramos Galarza, Carlos
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Ramos V.
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Jadán Guerrero, Janio
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Lepe-Martínez N.
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Paredes-Núñez L.
This article presents three concepts that are fundamental in the neuropsychological theoretical: (a) historical data in the study of the human brain, (b) neuropsychological evaluation of brain functions and (c) neuropsychological rehabilitation of brain functions. As relevant data in the theoretical development of the study of the human brain is a tour of the trepanation acts performed hundreds of years ago, the contributions of phrenology, the masterful findings of Broca and Wernicke, the heuristic contribution of Luria and the current revolution with the neuro-image. In the neuropsychological evaluation of brain functions, the role of specific, non-specific and delayed observation tests in the interpretation of the neuropsychological state of the human being is analyzed, which allow analyzing neuropsychological functions in the laboratory and in real lifeactivities. Finally, we analyze the process of neuropsychological rehabilitation of brain functions, where mention is made of the processes of restoration, compensation, substitution, activation-stimulation and integration, which are very useful when intervening in a brain that has suffered an acquired damage. It is concluded that the current accelerated pace has determined the advance of neuroscience, where technology and the forceful scientific contribution propose new techniques and theories to understand the processes of evaluation and rehabilitation of brain functioning.
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Talented soccer players, the big secret is in the brain: The great tragedy of the star player and the fate of magicians with a preserved nervous systems
(2017)
Ramos Galarza, Carlos
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Peña-García S.
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Pérez-Salas C.
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Cadena-Almeida I.
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Jadán Guerrero, Janio
In previous work, we have presented case studies from fascinating films for the eye of the neuropsychologist;1,2,3 continuing with this line of research, we describe here for your consideration a critical analysis of the role of brain functions in one of the most fascinating sports, soccer. In this analysis, we will look more closely at the brain damage suffered by the great footballer Salvador Cabañas and the role of the highly complex brain functions that allow the magical players to stand out in this sport. In the next pages, we present the case of Salvador Cabañas, both before and after his cerebral accident, and later we analyze the cerebral functions that are activated in brilliant players like Messi or Ronaldinho. We conclude this article by reflecting on the role of the brain in our normal human activities, and how catastrophic it becomes on a daily basis when our brain tissue is damaged so that as a result of this condition we can lose everything. © 2017 Fundacion para la difusion neurologica en Ecuador - FUNDINE. All Rights Reserved.
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