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Mastery of Assistive Technology in K-12 Education

2024-08 , Satterfield, Richard (Ben) , Walker, Bruce N. , Milchus, Karen , LaForce, Salimah , Griffiths, Patricia , DeStefano, Lizanne , Blake, Matthew

This article describes the evaluation of a prototype of the Continuum of AT Mastery (CATM), an instrument developed for measuring individual progress toward mastery of assistive technology (AT).  In this second of two one-year studies, we examined the applicability of the CATM in K-12 educational settings.   This manuscript includes results of field testing of the CATM in K-12 schools and presents results of inter-rater and test-retest reliability.  item_description: This is the compilation of data collected from focus groups, field testing, interviews, and analysis from a study of the instrument known as the Continuum of AT Mastery (CATM) in K-12 settings.

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The Development of a Measurement Tool for Mastery of Assistive Technology

2021-06-30 , Satterfield, Richard (Ben) , Walker, Bruce N. , Milchus, Karen

This report describes the development of a survey tool used to measure and assess “mastery of assistive technology”. A Delphi Panel comprised of experts in the area of Assistive Technology (AT) was gathered to explore the question of “What is mastery of AT?” For the purposes of this study, mastery was defined as becoming a “power user” of AT. Panelists were asked to identify what characteristics are associated with being a power user of AT. The panel gave these characteristics Likert Scale rankings as to their applicability as a predictor of becoming a power user and as an indicator of having become a power user. The rankings were compared, and the panel was asked to revisit the rankings in order to identify the most important factors. The panel identified 12 predictors and 14 indicators that they felt were highly predictive of becoming a power user or indicative of being one. These factors were analyzed and found to coalesce around four constructs or areas of mastery: (1) Experience (Usage) with AT; (2) Proficiency with AT; (3) Knowledge of AT; and (4) Personal Connection with AT. An online survey-based tool for measuring AT mastery was developed based on these constructs and presented to the panel for feedback and critique.

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Can You Hear My Heartbeat?: Hearing an Expressive Biosignal Elicits Empathy - Supplementary Data

2021-05-07 , Winters, R. Michael , Leslie, Grace , Walker, Bruce N.

Interfaces designed to elicit empathy provide an opportunity for HCI with important pro-social outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated that perceiving expressive biosignals can facilitate emotional understanding and connection with others, but this work has been largely limited to visual approaches. We propose that hearing these signals will also elicit empathy, and test this hypothesis with sounding heartbeats. In a lab-based within-subjects study, participants (N = 27) completed an emotion recognition task in different heartbeat conditions. We found that hearing heartbeats changed participants’ emotional perspective and increased their reported ability to “feel what the other was feeling.” From these results, we argue that auditory heartbeats are well-suited as an empathic intervention, and might be particularly useful for certain groups and use-contexts because of its musical and non-visual nature. This work establishes a baseline for empathic auditory interfaces, and offers a method to evaluate the effects of future designs.

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