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The Use and Impact of an Assistance System for Supporting Participation in Employment for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities implies an increase in participation in employment for individuals with cognitive disabilities. In this process, assistive technology plays an important role. This paper shows results of how a technical assistance system providing cognitive support can promote participation in the field of employment.

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Acknowledgements

This work is part of the project “motionEAP”. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, grant no. 01MT12021E.

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  1. Social Work, Health Care and Nursing Sciences, University of Applied Science, Esslingen, Germany

    Liane Baechler & Thomas Heidenreich

  2. Mechanical Engineering, University of Applied Science, Esslingen, Germany

    Andreas Baechler, Sven Autenrieth, Georg Kruell & Thomas Hoerz

  3. Institut for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Markus Funk

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Correspondence to Liane Baechler .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Baechler, L. et al. (2016). The Use and Impact of an Assistance System for Supporting Participation in Employment for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_46

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