TE(A)CHADOPT

• Bartl-Pokorny Katrin
• Holzer Marlene
• Pokorny Florian
• Vogrinec Gunter
• Zitta Claudia

• Politechnika Gdanska, Poland; involved researchers: Agnieszka Landowska & Michał Wróbel
• Yeditepe Üniversitesi, Türkiye; involved researcher: Duygun Erol Barkana
• Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye; involved researcher: Hatice Köse
• Technical University of Munich, Germany; involved researchers: Björn Schuller & Manuel Milling
• Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel; involved researchers: Dana Cappel & Rachel Blum
• Alliance for Applied Psychology, North Macedonia; involved researcher: Tatjana Zorcec & Danijela Zorchec

We are teaching accessibility awareness and skills to students who will later work in development of technologies for people with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or in application of technologies for intervention purposes.

We are preparing a comprehensive set of teaching material on accessibility of technologies than can be used for free by other university teachers. The teaching material will be available in English and in the national languages of our partner countries.
 

Children with neurodevelopmental disorders are participating in our observational study on child-technology interaction. Interviews are performed with the children and their parents to get to know their opinion on the technologies and related challenges. The main goal of TE(A)CHADOPT is to advance their inclusion and access to technologies by increasing accessibility awareness and skills in (future) technology developers.

They will benefit from our comprehensive set of guidelines on the evaluation of child-technology interaction. The guidelines will help them to adapt their technologies better to the wants and needs of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. In the long run, they will benefit from our teaching activities as their future co-workers will be equipped with high accessibility awareness and skills.

They are getting new insights in suitable technologies for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and challenges they may have when using technologies. In their future daily work with children with neurodevelopmental disorders, they will benefit from technologies that better meet the children's needs.

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On 25 February 2025, Dr. Katrin Bartl-Pokorny (Med Uni Graz) was invited to visit KLEX – KLusemann EXtern secondary school in Graz, Austria. She presented the TE(A)CHADOPT project to a first-grade class (26 children, 2 teachers). All participants were very interested and had lots of questions. It was a rewarding experience for both sides.  

On 23 and 24 March 2025, the project partners met in Graz for TE(A)CHADOPT’s first of three project team meetings. Each partner introduced his or her institution and team, the project team members had the chance to get to know each other (better), and project activities were discussed and planned in more detail. The team members increased their knowledge on technology adoption models as well as on neurodevelopmental disorders and intervention approaches. During a break, there was time for a guided tour over the campus of the Medical University of Graz. Katrin Bartl-Pokorny and her team want to thank all guests who participated in person or virtually in the meeting for the very fruitful and enjoyable two days together!