TY - GEN
T1 - Building an effective ontology for assistive technology
AU - Danial-Saad, Alexandra
AU - Kuflik, Tsvi
AU - Weiss, Patrice L.Tamar
AU - Schreuer, Naomi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The aim of this paper was to develop and validate an ontology for one class of assistive technology (AT), namely physically controllable pointing devices, using the Delphi method. Six occupational therapists with AT expertise identified important items and categories to the pointing device prescription through a three-round, structured process consisting of responses to a series of questionnaires. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the interrater reliability of items included in categories related to the pointing devices and to the user profile. During the first round, the ICC ranged from 0.19 to 0.97; this improved to ICCs ranging from 0.72 to 1.0 during the second round. A full consensus was reached by the experts during the final round which included 218 items, divided into five categories, for the pointing device list, and 168 items, divided into six categories, for the user profile list. This ontology is expected to help achieve a more systematic regulation of the AT field, leading to greater standardization and increased knowledge sharing.
AB - The aim of this paper was to develop and validate an ontology for one class of assistive technology (AT), namely physically controllable pointing devices, using the Delphi method. Six occupational therapists with AT expertise identified important items and categories to the pointing device prescription through a three-round, structured process consisting of responses to a series of questionnaires. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the interrater reliability of items included in categories related to the pointing devices and to the user profile. During the first round, the ICC ranged from 0.19 to 0.97; this improved to ICCs ranging from 0.72 to 1.0 during the second round. A full consensus was reached by the experts during the final round which included 218 items, divided into five categories, for the pointing device list, and 168 items, divided into six categories, for the user profile list. This ontology is expected to help achieve a more systematic regulation of the AT field, leading to greater standardization and increased knowledge sharing.
KW - Delphi method
KW - Ontologies
KW - assistive technology
KW - pointing devices
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84952062660
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-749
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-749
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 26294558
AN - SCOPUS:84952062660
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 749
EP - 754
BT - Assistive Technology
A2 - Sik-Lanyi, Cecilia
A2 - Cudd, Peter
A2 - Miesenberger, Klaus
A2 - Hoogerwerf, Evert-Jan
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th European Conference on the Advancement of Assistive Technology, AAATE 2015
Y2 - 9 September 2015 through 12 September 2015
ER -