WhenWear Advisor: A Cloud-Based Tool to Help Supervisors Increase Employment Options for Workers with Intellectual Disabilities

This project combines commercially-available tablets and neural networks with cloud computing to develop the WhenWear Advisor system to assist employees with intellectual disabilities (ID) to independently and successfully accomplish vocational tasks when provided with the proper automated prompts. Project objectives include: (1) determining end user requirements, (2) developing a proof-of-concept prototype of the system, (3) evaluating the utility of the prototype with the actual supervisors who represent a cross-section of the range of needs of a mobile worker, and (4) verifying the validity of the models created by the supervisor. Projects outcomes include: (1) supervisors being able to quickly generate high quality instructions for use in the employee electronic coach device, and (2) the resulting instructional prompts enabling the employee with an ID to perform at higher levels. The expected product is an intelligent cloud-based service that assists the supervisor in the creation of high quality instructional prompts, enabling workers with ID perform at higher levels and obtain higher salaries in community integrated employment.