A framework to automatically support autonomous exploration of amusing contents and self-determination in people with profound disabilities

In this paper a framework to support and stimulate the autonomous exploration of leisure activities in people with profound disabilities is described. It is indeed important to help them to gain as much autonomy as possible and, at the same time, reduce caregivers' mediation, especially in children. Starting from the representation of this setting in terms of interacting elements, it is possible to insert tools, enriched with artificial intelligence, that allow people with a reduced autonomy degree to increase it. The framework, indeed, includes the ALA, the artificial leisure assistant that records individual interaction with multisensory materials and proposes materials and activities that share elements or features with previously selected ones. The framework is described in detail.