Developing Navigational Services for People with Down´s Syndrome

The ability to commute and travel alone is an important skill that enables people to be more independent, and integrated with society. People with Down´s Syndrome often experience low social integration, and low degree of independence. As part of the European Commission funded POSEIDON project, we want to explore how context-aware, and assistive technology can enable users with Down´s Syndrome be more independent, including the ability to commute alone to a place of interest. In this paper, we report on our current progress in developing navigational services within the context of the POSEIDON project. We carried out a semi-structured qualitative evaluation of an early version of our navigational services with 6 individuals with Down´s Syndrome, and report on our findings.