MADM System for the Development of Adaptable Mobile Applications for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

Many people with intellectual disabilities (PID) can experience problems in different aspects of their everyday life. The capabilities of modern mobile applications offer promising opportunities to help PID to cope with their everyday life problems and to feel more confident in everyday activities. Mobile application development is one of the most fast-moving industries and to support the mobile applications development process special software tools are designed. However, the development of mobile applications for PID has its own specifics due to capabilities and limitations of this category of users. The article presents a mobile application development management (MAMD) system, that takes into account these specifics and covers both the stage of the development of mobile applications for PID and the stage of their usage. The system supports modular development of mobile applications based on reusing software components. The system allows to conFigure the interface of mobile applications and adapt it to the users with different capabilities and limitations. The system is universal in terms of platform selection, so the developers of mobile applications for PID can always chose the most suitable platform for different categories of PID.