Abstract
This paper presents a prototype for adapting workplaces for disabled people. The effective integration of people with disabilities in the workplace is a huge challenge to society, and it presents an opportunity to make use of new technologies. The project, called AZTECA, aims to develop new tools that contribute to the employment of groups of people with visual, hearing, or motor disabilities in office environments. These different tools for the disabled people have been modelled with intelligent agents that use Web services. These agents are implemented and deployed within the PANGEA platform so PANGEA conforms the skeleton of the system and allows to develop an integral system. The main target of prototype presented in this work is the people detection using ZigBee technology and the personalization of the workplace according to the user's disability.
Highlights
Due to the advance of technologies and communications, intelligent systems have become an integral part of many people’s lives, available products and services have become more varied and capable, and users expect to be able to personalize a product or service to meet their individual needs, no longer accepting a “one size fits all” solution
There are currently a number of barriers that make it difficult for persons with disabilities to be incorporated into the workforce and, for businesses to include them among their personnel
It is necessary to improve the services provided as well as the way to offer them [4]. Technologies such as Multiagent Systems (MAS) and Ambient Intelligence based on mobile devices have been recently explored as a system of interaction with dependent people [5]
Summary
Due to the advance of technologies and communications, intelligent systems have become an integral part of many people’s lives, available products and services have become more varied and capable, and users expect to be able to personalize a product or service to meet their individual needs, no longer accepting a “one size fits all” solution. The greatest challenges for incorporating these individuals into the workforce are personal autonomy (mobility), information processing (language, knowledge of numbers, learning tasks, and spatial orientation), attitude toward work (responsibility, attention, rhythm, organization, work relationships, security, interest, etc.), emotional control, interpersonal relationships, and selfdetermination It becomes necessary, to provide new tools that can eliminate these barriers and facilitate the integration of this group of individuals into the workforce. It is necessary to improve the services provided as well as the way to offer them [4] Technologies such as Multiagent Systems (MAS) and Ambient Intelligence based on mobile devices have been recently explored as a system of interaction with dependent people [5].
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