AAC

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

ADL

Activities of Daily Living: basic activities including eating and dressing

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance

ASSISTANT

An AAL EC project: Aiding SuStainable Independent Senior TrAvellers to Navigate in Towns

AT

Assistive Technology

AT/IA

Assistive Technology using Intelligence Augmentation

CLever

The CognitiveLEVERs project in L3D, University of Colorado

COACH

The Cognitive Orthosis for Assisting with aCtivites in the Home project from Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab (IATSL) in the University of Toronto

DC

Distributed Cognition

DFA

Design for All

DM

Device Model

DRD

Digital Resource Description

EU4ALL

European Union for All an EC FP7 accessibility project

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GPS

Global Positioning System

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAPTIMAP

Haptic, Audio, and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services, a FP7 EC project

HCI

Human-Computer Interaction

HIPAA

The US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

IA

Intelligence Augmentation

IADL

Independent Activities of Daily Living: more complex daily activities

ICF

International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health of the WHO

L3D

The Center for LifeLong Learning and Design of the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado

MAPS

MAPS Memory Aiding Prompting System

MAPS-DE

Script editor for the MAPS Memory Aiding Prompting System

MAPS-PR

The user interface for the MAPS Memory Aiding Prompting System

PC

Personal Computer

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant (a precursor to the Smartphone)

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

SMS

Short Message Service

STE

Socio-Technical Environment

STS

Socio-Technical System

TYPE-1 ERROR

Classifying an event as occurring when it has not

TYPE-2 ERROR

Classifying an event as not occurring when it has

UI

User Interface

UM

User Model

WAIS-IQ

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale