PRIM project: what contributions for disabilities?

TL;DR

The PRIM project introduces a novel, user-friendly approach for creating interaction scenarios for people with disabilities, using a unique timeline concept that enhances accessibility and cognitive compatibility.

Contribution

It presents an unconventional software design approach that embodies human interaction thinking through a new timeline representation, facilitating scenario creation without programming skills.

Findings

High acceptability among participants

Positive cognitive compatibility results

Potential benefits for disability support tools

Abstract

In the PRIM project, we aim at giving people the power to create scenagrams (interaction scenarios between a human and digital devices) without the need to learn programming or to ask for computer scientists. In this project, software design follows an unconventional approach, far from classical codes, to embody human thinking (based on interactions) instead of computer logic (based on algorithms). The main idea rests on a new time representation using a PRIM-specific timeline instead of a standardized timeline. We evaluated acceptability and cognitive compatibility of this new timeline with 50 participants. Results are very promising. In this paper, we detail qualitative evaluation results about the interest of such software in the field of disability.