[Athen] Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), Disability Innovation Fund--Automated Personalization Computing Project

[Teresa Haven]

If there are any other groups/institutions who might be interested in collaborating on this, the Institute for Human Diversity here at NAU (http://nau.edu/sbs/ihd/) would like to discuss ideas with you.  Please reply to me off-list and I will be glad to connect you with IHD.

Thank you,
Teresa

Teresa Haven, Ph.D.
Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University



From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Melanie P. Thornton
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 10:28 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: [Athen] Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), Disability Innovation Fund--Automated Personalization Computing Project


Have you seen this?

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-07-23/html/2015-18085.htm

Overview Information



Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), Disability Innovation

Fund--Automated Personalization Computing Project



DATES:

    Applications Available: July 23, 2015.

    Date of Pre-Application Webinar: August 5, 2015.

    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 8, 2015.



I. Funding Opportunity Description



    Purpose of Program: The purpose of the Disability Innovation Fund,

as provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Pub. L. 113-

76), is to support innovative activities aimed at improving the

outcomes of ``individuals with disabilities,'' as defined in section

7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.



The purpose of this priority is to enter into a cooperative

agreement to implement a pilot project that would improve outcomes for

individuals with disabilities by increasing access to information and

communication technologies (ICT) through automatic personalization of

needed assistive technology (AT). Under the Automated Personalization

Computing Project (APCP), an information technology (IT) infrastructure

would be created to allow users of ICT to store preferences in the

cloud or other technology, which then would allow supported Internet-

capable devices they are using to automatically run their preferred AT

solutions.

    Using these stored preferences, along with information about the

computer (e.g., type, operating system) and available AT solutions, the

APCP would identify AT to meet the user's preferences and then

configure the computer accordingly. This may require automatically

configuring AT built into the mainstream technology computer itself or

configuring external AT solutions to operate on the computer.

    The Department is seeking to implement a pilot demonstration of

this concept which demonstrates how the automated personalization could

follow a person across multiple sites and multiple devices. The project

must also demonstrate the scalability and sustainability of the

implemented model(s).






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Melanie Thornton
Trainer/Consultant
University of Arkansas
V/T: 501.291.3217
E: mthornt at uark.edu<mailto:mthornt at uark.edu>



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