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Designing a Collaborative Personal Assistance Model for Persons with Disabilities: The Portuguese Independent Living Case

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This paper presents an ongoing research work that aims to develop governance models and ICTs to enable and empower persons with disabilities according to the orientations settled in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Starting from the study of the current model of Independent Living Support adopted in Portugal and its practical limitations, we propose a model based on the collaborative networks scientific discipline. This new model aims to guarantee an environment in which all the involved participants can improve and combine their contributions toward providing Personal Assistance to persons with disabilities. The paper also presents a Web platform (SEU - Services to Empower yoU) designed to support offline services acquisition, providing a user interaction adapted to different types of disabilities. Furthermore, we propose an update to the platform SEU to be compliant with the proposed collaborative model.

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Project funded by the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, through the internal Research Support Program and by the Portuguese “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” “Strategic program UIDB/00066/2020” (UNINOVA-CTS project).

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  1. Uninova Institute, Centre of Technology and Systems (CTS), Caparica, Portugal

    Patrícia Macedo, Filipa Ferrada & Ana Inês Oliveira

  2. Sustain.RD Center, ESTSetúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Campus do IPS, Setúbal, Portugal

    Patrícia Macedo, Filipa Ferrada & Rui Neves Madeira

  3. Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal

    Filipa Ferrada & Ana Inês Oliveira

  4. NOVA LINCS, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal

    Rui Neves Madeira

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Macedo, P., Ferrada, F., Oliveira, A.I., Madeira, R.N. (2021). Designing a Collaborative Personal Assistance Model for Persons with Disabilities: The Portuguese Independent Living Case. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Boucher, X., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks 4.0. PRO-VE 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 629. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_61

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