In 2005 a collaborative project was launched to develop a web-based
task repository to facilitate sharing of instructional media created
in accordance with the AIMS standard. Task categories will include,
but not be limited to, Educational, Vocational, Independent Living,
Recreation and Leisure, and Community Access. This project is being
conducted by AbleLink Technologies in collaboration with the Beach Center
on Disability at the University of Kansas and the Coleman Institute
for Cognitive Disabilities through the University of Colorado's Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center on Advancing Cognitive Technologies.
Click here to view an individual description of the organizations involved with AIMS.
AIMS is the culmination of a number of research and development activities over the past decade which have provided the foundation for prompting technologies which exist today. This section provides a timeline of key projects and events which have contributed to the development of prompting technologies. The timeline below provides a historical overview of some of these key events. For a more detailed description of these events, Click here. In addition, a number of articles are listed which address the use of prompting technologies specificaly or in a general sense,
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here to view these references.