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Cloud Computing for People with Developmental Disabilities Clayton Lewis Consultant National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

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Page 1: Cloud Computing for People with Developmental Disabilities€¦ · • Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure initiative – GPII.org • $11M European Commission project launched

Cloud Computing for People with Developmental Disabilities

Clayton LewisConsultant

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research 

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Outline

• What is cloud computing?• Why does it matter?• What is being done now?• What are the further opportunities?

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What is cloud computing?past

future

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Advantages for Users

• Access data and services from anywhere• Very low cost… down to free• Access services and content you could not have on your own computer

• Your computer can set itself up automatically to meet your needs and preferences:

Autopersonalization

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How Autopersonalization Works

User profile in the cloud

Modified browser accesses user profile…

…customizes presentation of Web page to meet user’s individual needs

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Scenarios

• People can choose large fonts, preferred color contrast

• People can choose outline view of complex Web pages

• People with different needs and preferences can easily share a computer

• People can easily use public computers in libraries or community centers

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Advantages for Developers

• Low barriers to entry• Easier marketing and deployment• Easier to make content and services inclusive

More and better services for users

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GPII

• Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure initiative– GPII.org

• $11M European Commission project launched November, 2011– Additional international matches

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NIDRR Cloud Initiative

• NIDRR has funded work leading up to GPII for some years.

• It has been charged by the administration to lead a larger effort.

• NIDRR will continue to fund the development of the technology, in cooperation with the international projects.

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NIDRR Cloud Initiative (cont.)

• NIDRR is planning joint activities with other agencies on:– Inclusive voting (National Institute on Standards and Technology, NIST)

– Accessibility of federal cloud applications (NIST)– Inclusive educational assessement (Office of Special Education Programs)

– Accessibility information for online educational content (Office of Education and Technology)

– Strategic research (National Science Foundation)

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Further Opportunities

• Current plans focus on cloud‐based enhancement of access to content and services

• There are other cloud opportunities:– Use data from cloud‐based systems to improve services– Provide consumers access to their own information, as in Blue Button service

– Support experience sharing for technology consumers– Create an inclusive community of disability researchers and consumers

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A Word of Caution

• cloud technology will not solve all of our problems

• there is a risk of exaggerated expectations and mistaken resource allocations– parallel: technology in the schools

• success with technology requires investment in people and their skills

• we need to grasp the real opportunities of the cloud, but with a sober sense of reality

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Your thoughts?

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