{"id":19379,"date":"2020-06-12T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19379"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:57","slug":"open-source-software-helps-youth-with-disabilities-develop-scheduling-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/12\/open-source-software-helps-youth-with-disabilities-develop-scheduling-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-source software helps youth with disabilities develop scheduling independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The system can add more flexibility to task management apps to help learning users make informed decisions about their time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping a handle on life\u2019s many demands is hard on its own. Part of growing up is learning how to handle planning and scheduling \u2013 and with a world of apps to help, it\u2019s gotten easier for teens and adolescents to structure their time. But these challenges are compounded for teens with disabilities or additional medical needs that take up a part of their everyday routine, and where forgetting or mistiming medical activities can have unhealthy consequences. Existing solutions leave much to be desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where calendar apps can be too rigid in prescribing how your day is broken up, a simple to-do list doesn\u2019t say much about how some tasks should be timed. In an effort to find the best of both worlds, a multidisciplinary team at the University of Michigan has combined key features of these common systems into a new, more flexible method for organizing the day\u2019s activities. The open-source software<\/a> is intended to add an element of guided planning to existing time management apps, to help these adolescents develop accountability at their own pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe purpose of the system is to allow an adolescent or young adult who doesn\u2019t have much experience with managing their own schedule to get this experience independently,\u201d says Edmund Durfee, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and lead researcher on the project. \u201cThe system provides feedback and guidance to ensure that they\u2019ll accomplish the activities they need to in a day, but providing as much flexibility as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The system can add more flexibility to task management apps to help learning users make informed decisions about their time. Keeping a handle on life\u2019s many demands is hard on its own. Part of growing up is learning how to handle planning and scheduling \u2013 and with a world of apps to help, it\u2019s gotten easier for teens and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[852,188],"class_list":["post-19379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-engineering","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1.jpg",2560,1152,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-200x90.jpg",200,90,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-300x135.jpg",300,135,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-768x346.jpg",665,300,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-700x315.jpg",600,270,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-1536x691.jpg",1536,691,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-2048x922.jpg",2048,922,true],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1-665x299.jpg",665,299,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/durfee-featured-scaled-1.jpg",400,180,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The system can add more flexibility to task management apps to help learning users make informed decisions about their time. Keeping a handle on life\u2019s many demands is hard on its own. Part of growing up is learning how to handle planning and scheduling \u2013 and with a world of apps to help, it\u2019s gotten easier…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19410,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19379\/revisions\/19410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}