Tutor inteligente

tLAGUNTXO, a flexible intelligent tutoring system to improve the quality of life of the people with cognitive disabilities
Á. Conde 2, M. Larrañaga2, J. Rubio1*, C. Vaquero1, E. Irigoyen2, K. L. deIpiña2, N. Garay2, A. Conde2, A. Ezeiza2, A. Soraluze3, M. Peñagarikano2, G. Bordel2, L. J. Rodríguez2, J.M. López2, R. Martínez 2, M. Ezquerra3, and O. Zubillaga3
1

Fundación LEIA, (Spain)jokinr@leia.es

2

Universidad del País Vasco – (UPV/EHU) (Spain)
3

Gureak Group (Spain)

In order to face the problems that people with disabilities find in their daily life, and especially intheir working environment in a very competitive market, one of the keys is the implementation of solutions that new technology offers in the form of what experts call “Support Technology”. Thedevelopment of flexible and intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) based on mobile platforms and providing adaptable content offers new perspectives in the integration of people with disabilities. These tutoringsystems are adaptable to the users and they compensate user’s disabilities improving the personal performance and the training.

This development involves a multidisciplinary project team where bothresearchers from the university or technological centre and users and experts from disabled people employer companies or associations are working together. The main investigation is oriented todevelop a daily life / workplace tasks management system, integrated with a mobile platform (smartphone, PDA), with an adaptable architecture which is able to manage complex tasks. This manager will alsoallow nontechnical support personal (tutors, family, psychologist...) to easily generate multimodal resources that will help the disabled people to overcome some of the complex daily barriers.

So,and in a first approach, the ITS we are working on will have to finish covering several features: • • To allow tutoring the daily life and working tasks of people with disabilities, giving them more...