Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series
(1) Background: People with intellectual disabilities and blindness tend to be withdrawn and sedentary. This study was carried out to assess a new technology system to enable seven of these people to collect boxes containing different sets of objects from a storage room and transport them to the app...
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| author | Giulio E. Lancioni Gloria Alberti Francesco Pezzuoli Fabiana Abbinante Nirbhay N. Singh Mark F. O’Reilly Jeff Sigafoos |
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| description | (1) Background: People with intellectual disabilities and blindness tend to be withdrawn and sedentary. This study was carried out to assess a new technology system to enable seven of these people to collect boxes containing different sets of objects from a storage room and transport them to the appropriate destination rooms. (2) Methods: The technology system used for the study involved tags with radio frequency identification codes, a tag reader, a smartphone, and mini speakers. At the start of a session, the participants were called by the system to take a box from the storage room. Once they collected a box, the system identified the tags attached to the box, called the participants to the room where the box was to be transported and delivered, and provided them with preferred music stimulation. The same process was followed for each of the other boxes available in the session. (3) Results: During baseline sessions without the system, the mean frequency of boxes handled correctly (collected, transported, and put away without research assistants’ guidance) was zero or virtually zero. During the intervention sessions with the system, the participants’ mean frequency of boxes handled correctly increased to between about 10 and 15 per session. (4) Conclusions: These findings suggest that the new technology system might be helpful for people like the participants of this study. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0f2a4bf5f5cd4e478537c879e2f11bda2025-08-20T02:18:15ZengMDPI AGTechnologies2227-70802025-03-0113413110.3390/technologies13040131Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research SeriesGiulio E. Lancioni0Gloria Alberti1Francesco Pezzuoli2Fabiana Abbinante3Nirbhay N. Singh4Mark F. O’Reilly5Jeff Sigafoos6Lega F. D’Oro Research Center, 60027 Osimo, ItalyLega F. D’Oro Research Center, 60027 Osimo, ItalyDepartment of Architecture and Design, University of Camerino and LiMiX Srl, 63100 Ascoli Piceno, ItalyLega F. D’Oro Research Center, 60027 Osimo, ItalyCollege of Medicine, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USADepartment of Special Education, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USASchool of Education, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand(1) Background: People with intellectual disabilities and blindness tend to be withdrawn and sedentary. This study was carried out to assess a new technology system to enable seven of these people to collect boxes containing different sets of objects from a storage room and transport them to the appropriate destination rooms. (2) Methods: The technology system used for the study involved tags with radio frequency identification codes, a tag reader, a smartphone, and mini speakers. At the start of a session, the participants were called by the system to take a box from the storage room. Once they collected a box, the system identified the tags attached to the box, called the participants to the room where the box was to be transported and delivered, and provided them with preferred music stimulation. The same process was followed for each of the other boxes available in the session. (3) Results: During baseline sessions without the system, the mean frequency of boxes handled correctly (collected, transported, and put away without research assistants’ guidance) was zero or virtually zero. During the intervention sessions with the system, the participants’ mean frequency of boxes handled correctly increased to between about 10 and 15 per session. (4) Conclusions: These findings suggest that the new technology system might be helpful for people like the participants of this study.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/13/4/131technologytagstag readerblindnessintellectual disabilityverbal instructions |
| spellingShingle | Giulio E. Lancioni Gloria Alberti Francesco Pezzuoli Fabiana Abbinante Nirbhay N. Singh Mark F. O’Reilly Jeff Sigafoos Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series Technologies technology tags tag reader blindness intellectual disability verbal instructions |
| title | Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series |
| title_full | Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series |
| title_fullStr | Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series |
| title_short | Technology to Enable People with Intellectual Disabilities and Blindness to Collect Boxes with Objects and Transport Them to Different Rooms of Their Daily Context: A Single-Case Research Series |
| title_sort | technology to enable people with intellectual disabilities and blindness to collect boxes with objects and transport them to different rooms of their daily context a single case research series |
| topic | technology tags tag reader blindness intellectual disability verbal instructions |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/13/4/131 |
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