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Visual Impact Phase II: Using Cloud-based Technology to Support Activities of…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Education 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2012 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
H133S120062 		Solicitation Year:
2012 		Solicitation Topic Code:
84.133S-2 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
AbleLink Technologies, Inc.
618 North Nevada Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80903-
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2012
Title: Visual Impact Phase II: Using Cloud-based Technology to Support Activities of Daily Living and Other Learning Needs to Facilitate Independence for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Agency: ED
Contract: H133S120062
Award Amount: $250,000.00
 

Abstract:

This project develops a cloud-based system for managing and delivering “on demand” activity prompts to individuals with intellectual disabilities along with a comprehensive, automated reporting system to enable reliable remote notifications to facilitate monitoring of task compliance. Pictures, audio, and video prompts can be delivered anywhere via the cloud to a Visual Impact cognitively accessible prompting app running on mobile devices including the iPhone, iPad, and Android smart phones/tablets. This enables step-by-step task prompting to be accessed independently at the places and times where it is needed. Phase II involves the continued development and evaluation of a comprehensive Visual Impact system, resulting in a tool that allows parents, teachers, and other caregivers to develop, manage, and share multimedia instructional training tasks to users in remote locations on-demand. This project also further develops and evaluates notification features to allow staff to remotely monitor task compliance and take corrective actions as needed. This study continues research on the independent usability of the system, to help validate the efficacy of the system for increasing independent and accurate task performance by students and adults with intellectual and other cognitive disabilities, and to evaluate the benefits and cost efficiencies of remote monitoring of task compliance.

Principal Investigator:

Daniel Davies
(719) 592-0347
dan@ablelinktech.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

AbleLink Technologies,Inc.
618 N NEVADA AVE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80903-

EIN/Tax ID: 841528899
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees: N/A
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: Yes