Intervention Platform for Children with Intellectual Disability: Chatbots and IBM Watson Services in the Ecuadorian Context

Saúl Arias-Durán, Jorge Sanisaca-Muñoz, Sofía Bravo-Buri, Vladimir Robles-Bykbaev

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Resumen

Some of the latest studies conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) claim that approximately 10 percent of the world’s children and young people (200 million) have a sensory, intellectual, or mental health impairment. This situation is complex because 80% of them live in developing countries. In Ecuador, the picture has become critical with the health emergency due to the COVID-19. In the same way, it is essential mentioning that children with disabilities are much more vulnerable to COVID-19. For these reasons, in this paper, we present the first development stage of an open-source platform to help specialists in the intervention of children with intellectual disabilities. The platform uses chatbots to support and provide an appropriate guide for children’s parents/caregivers, and at the same time uses the free intelligent services provided by the IBM Watson. To determine the real feasibility of implementing we tested the platform with real users, their parents, and at the same time, applied a survey with 30 professionals of special education. The achieved results are encouraging and show that the platform can be used by therapists and professionals that lost their works due to the pandemic.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaAdvances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Usability and User Experience, Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design, and Human Factors and Assistive Technology, 2021
EditoresTareq Z. Ahram, Christianne S. Falcão
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Páginas486-494
Número de páginas9
ISBN (versión impresa)9783030800901
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2021
EventoAHFE Conferences on Usability and User Experience, Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design, and Human Factors and Assistive Technology, 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duración: 25 jul. 202129 jul. 2021

Serie de la publicación

NombreLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volumen275
ISSN (versión impresa)2367-3370
ISSN (versión digital)2367-3389

Conferencia

ConferenciaAHFE Conferences on Usability and User Experience, Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design, and Human Factors and Assistive Technology, 2021
CiudadVirtual, Online
Período25/07/2129/07/21

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