WO2019068209A1

WO2019068209A1 - Device for assistance with learning, communication and control of artefacts and other devices

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Publication number: WO2019068209A1
Application number: PCT/CL2018/000032
Authority: WO
Inventors: Guillermo Alfredo MONTUFAR; Raúl Eduardo ARREDONDO; Elson Carlos STUARDO; Sergio Fernando PERER; Luis Enrique OJEDA; Felipe Mario Ignacio OLAVARRIA; Lise WERLINGER; Bernarda Roxana FIGUEROA
Original assignee: Universidad De Los Lagos
Priority date: 2017-10-08
Filing date: 2018-10-05
Publication date: 2019-04-11
Also published as: CL2017002545A1

Abstract

The device disclosed in the present invention patent relates to an electronic unit of a multifunctional instrument with simplified access and interaction, mainly designed for children with motor problems, which can be extended to other disabilities and ages, designed to support and assist them in their learning processes, as well as in their daily activities, facilitating their communications with third parties (when their disability level prevents or severely impedes their speech) and/or to allow them to control other devices, via an interactive computer platform based on progressive multiple selection. The device can be used in user-assisted mode or autonomously, adapting and interconnecting modules according to the required function and use.

Description

SUPPORT DEVICE FOR LEARNING, COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL OF ARTIFACTS AND OTHER DEVICES

STATE OF THE ART

Children with cerebral palsy, severe motor disabilities, and even adults with conditions that limit their motor skills, reaching in those cases with severe disabilities to limit or totally deprive them of speech, among others, even though in many cases they present a normal cognitive structure for their learning and social performance, are often limited by the lack of adapted integral alternatives that make it easier to learn, perform, express their creativity and relate to their peers or other people, and control and interact with other devices or devices with electronic components, especially in an environment strongly interconnected through the Internet, and especially with alternatives that adjust to the financial capacity of households or institutions with limited resources.

However, the use of the conventional keyboard or a touch keyboard, the mechanism of interaction preferred by most digital devices currently available, is extremely complex for those who have difficulty in hand coordination and voluntary use of their superior members.

Other mechanisms or devices currently developed or simplify the interaction to particular concepts limited through buttons identified on touch screens with images (US 20170000635) whose meaning is determined by the manufacturer and / or very restrictive, which makes it impossible to learning and scarcely limits itself to communicating specific and specific messages; or devices based on the use of external physical interaction devices (US0056857I9) visual and / or helped by external pointers to keyboards, which require extreme effort to be used by children or adults with severe motor disabilities, regardless of their cognitive ability.

i Likewise, in the state of the art several partial options have been developed to provide devices for learning and communication of people with disabilities. For example, document US 2012/194439 discloses an apparatus and a method for providing assistance in communication and academic achievement to people who have a disability of fine motor coordination. A computer is provided having a software and a storage medium having a plurality of potential user expressions. At least one user screen is in communication with the computer on which a plurality of possible user expressions can be displayed. A plurality of widely spaced controls are provided in association with the user screen corresponding to the potential user expressions. When the user wishes to select one of the potential user expressions, the user operates the control corresponding to the desired user expression using coarse motor movements. A main component is based on images for pre-literate users, and a secondary component is based on characters for literate users. In the main component, an operator sends images from where the user chooses. In the secondary component, the user selects characters for a two-dimensional content area.

US 2013/204625 discloses a concept of exercise and learning through a mobile learning and exercise device for the therapeutic treatment of patients, said concept is based on a network system. This exercise and concept of learning and exercise and learning device are used for the therapeutic treatment of patients in order to allow mobile and interactive learning. This exercise and learning device includes exercise and learning modules that are individually adapted to a patient who can also perform therapeutic exercises regardless of the time and place.

US 20 7/069221 discloses a learning apparatus that can electronically provide content to a user through a screen in the learning apparatus. The content may include stationary image elements and removable image elements in a plurality of Locations on the screen. When a user operates the learning apparatus, the removable image elements may move away from the plurality of locations. The user can select one or more image elements and place them in locations on the screen.

Art devices currently present several problems solved by the device of this invention, among them: the limitation of learning to a specific thematic of learning; the limitation of communication with other people for those whose conditioned to pre-structured messages that restrict the user's creative communication capacity and / or, in those with open capacity for expression, with complex mechanisms for users whose movements are thick and coarse; and the limitation of interconnection with the physical environment with other devices and devices with interconnected electronic components; integrated in a single, versatile, multifunctional, self-adjusting device that meets the requirements and disabilities of each user.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

The support device in the learning and / or communication process of the present invention is outlined in the following figures:

Figure 1: shows a top perspective presentation of a first example of monomodular application with top view of the device identifying the mechanisms of interaction with the user.

Figure 2: shows a posterior perspective presentation of a first monomodular application example showing some optional ports of interconnection of the device on the dorsal flat side.

Figure 3: shows a top floor presentation of a second example of monomodular application with top view of the device identifying the mechanisms of interaction with the user in closest arrangement to the user.

Figure 4: shows a side view presentation of a second example of monomodular application of the side of the device, showing the slope in the device. Figure 5: shows a top perspective presentation of a first example of modular application with top view of a configuration of different modules of the device identifying the macro components.

Figure 6: shows a top perspective presentation of a second example of modular application with top view of a configuration of different modules of the device identifying the macro components.

Figure 7: shows a top perspective presentation of a third modular application example with a top view of a configuration of different modules of the device identifying the macro components.

Figure 8: shows a presentation on the top floor of an application example identifying a type of input module of five integrated push buttons.

Figure 9: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of input module of five integrated push buttons.

Figure 10: shows a top side perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of input module of five integrated push buttons, showing the slope in the device.

Figure 11: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of input module of three non-integrated push buttons, showing examples of one wired and two wireless.

Figure 12: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of input module of three non-integrated push buttons, showing examples of one wired and two wireless.

Figure 13: shows a presentation on the top floor of an application example identifying a type of processing module or central processing unit with integrated screen.

Figure 14: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of processing module or central processing unit with integrated display. Figure 15: shows a presentation on the top floor of an application example identifying a type of processing module or central processing unit without an integrated screen.

Figure 16: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of processing module or central processing unit without integrated display.

Figure 17: shows a top perspective presentation of a second application example identifying a type of processing module or central processing unit with integrated screen.

Figure 18: shows a top plan presentation of an application example identifying a type of display module, showing the top view.

Figure 19: shows a top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of display module.

Figure 20: shows a schematic top perspective presentation of an application example identifying a type of connectivity module or communication with other devices or artifacts, showing wired or wireless capacity, applied from home automation to control of furniture of support or support.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to an electronic device, whose arrangement can be mono or formed by multiple modules -Figure 1, 3, 5 to 7 and its operating method, which serves to support one or more users (simultaneously or alternating ) in: (a) Learning in different thematic areas or subjects, under a multilevel system that adapts according to the user's progress; (b) Facilitate communication between people located in the direct environment of the user through the sound reproduction of phonemes and messages, as well as with other people at a distance, through communication supported by electronic equipment, including cell phones; (c) Configure, communicate with, and / or control devices and physical devices that have electronic, sensors and / or actuators, and connectivity. The device is supported by a progressive multiple selection process, assisted by a computer program which controls the self-configuring device itself according to the modules or devices interacting with the central unit at a specific time.

The user of the support device for which it is mainly designed are children and older adults, with normal or slightly reduced cognitive capacity, or equally those with a disability so severe that it affects their speech capacity, who together mainly manifest disability or motor problems. means to severe or other constraints that prevent or complicate the person making fine movements, often with their upper extremities, holding instruments, making fine strokes, fine selection of interaction mechanisms (such as the keyboard or other similar, for example ), among others. These disabilities restrict access to traditional learning and interaction systems, mainly to digital systems, conditioned by access systems that demand fine mobility. Likewise, users with limited social autonomous performance product of said disability, both from communication with third parties, as well as access to systems that allow them to interact with other devices and physical devices with electronic components designed frequently for such fine or light movements.

The device has ample capacity for growth both at the level of its programming and its physical elements, giving it functional versatility as it is coupled with different modules, and adaptability of both use (achieving reduced to a minimum expression when it does not require more functionality and / or few mechanisms of interaction with the user, for example to facilitate mobility in the user's movements, or to be significantly extended by interconnecting modules and / or external systems that enhance the capacity of the device for another determined functionality, with a self-configuring system depending on what is found interconnected at that time) as well as accessibility (users can access a minimal but widely scalable system over time). This versatility, combined with the programming and assisted multiple-selection method facilitates that under a single device, adapting different modules, it can interact with multiple devices and physical devices that have electronic and connectivity, allowing the user to obtain more autonomy, reduce human efforts, extending the potential of their actions in the home and / or the environments where it develops.

In the Assisted Platform of Progressive Selection: -PASP- the user operates the device by means of a progressive matrix selection from a set or group of individualized entries forming a selection mechanism, a mechanism that through its external physical identification at the hardware level and internal in the PASP, the user interacts to access the selection of multiple alternatives, advancing to the detailed option desired in a progressive manner.

Physically, the device in its mono-modular version -Figures 1 to 4-, examples of application would be made up of a lightweight but shock-resistant housing, which can be plastic (High Density Polyethylene, ABS or other plastics or combinations between them ), whose faces or covers are bounded by half of an ellipse whose largest diameter (a) is 40 to 70 cm, and the lower diameter (b) (of which only half is the surface of the device) maintains a proportion with the previous one between 0.5 to 0.7 (diameter that defines an imaginary axis that goes from the center of the ellipse if it were complete - central reference point- to the final end of it - extreme reference point-), with a thickness or height of the device between 1 to 30% of the greater diameter (a), which can be constant or go in slope from the central reference point with said thickness or height (d), to a thickness less equivalent to 1 to 30% of the greater thickness, in the extreme reference point (d1) - Figure 4-. Likewise, the cover has a space (c) sufficient to enter a screen of 5 to 15 inches (I), with rounded corners, both completely horizontal, and with an angle between 1 to 30 ° with respect to the horizontal surface Of the device; one to three curved handles (e) of 3 to 12 cm in radius of the cylinder or in oval form; 2 to 8 spaces (f) for push buttons (II) (with or without distinctive figures, each one in relief, slit, or color, among others) of 1, 5 to 8 cm square, with rounded corners ( g), and / or 1 to 2 spaces for rectangular buttons (II) of, for example, 2 x 3 cm, 3 x 4 or 4 x 5 cm, but equal to each other (also with or without distinctive figures, individual each one in relief, slit, or color, among others); and (hy V) slots smaller than 0.5 cm for audio output. In the dorsal side cover (Figure 2) the optional physical ports would be located [by way of example: (IV) Power source and external USB micro B connector, Jack or other equivalent, with - optional - storage battery; (VI) Flash memory or internal storage USB slots (one or more); (VII) Slot for memory card - optional-; (VIII) GSM / GPRS SIM module -optional-; (IX) External USB connector to upload new words and images to the internal memory -optional one or more-; (X) HDMI connection port - optional - for replicated display on external screen; (XI) Thunderbolt port -optional one or more- or equivalent to connect other peripheral devices for data entry; (XII) Ethernet port - optional - for network connection)]. Optionally, the device can also have a GSM / GPRS SIM module, in which case in the lower cover or the back cover it will have space to insert the respective card. Said device may optionally have solar panels for its power supply, facial recognition camera and audio inputs for voice control and / or gestures.

For its part, examples of application of the modular configuration - Figures 5 to 7, the device includes a central processing unit (Figures 13 to 16) -UCP- (III ^* ), protected by a lightweight shock-resistant housing, usually plastic, housing that can have cylindrical and curved handles, permanent or folding, that allow you to hold and transport, inside which is a processor of digital signals and electronic circuits required for proper operation. The CPU has multiple communication / interaction ports wired (power, USB, HDMI, slot for flash memory card, for example) and wireless (WiFi and Bluettoht, for example), showing the physical ports on one side of it and / u optionally with a SIM card slot. Optionally, the CPU can count on solar panels for its electrical operation. Likewise, the CPU can have a digital screen (c *) integrated in the housing -Figures 13, 14 and 17-, usually between 3 to 10 inches, in which case the dimensions of the module would be between 4 to 28 cm (k1) , k3) by 2 to 22 cm (m1, m3) by 3 to 10 cm of thickness or height (n1 or n3), or in the case of slope, ending in a thickness of 1 to 5 cm (n3 *). In other configurations, as the user prefers, the CPU may not have an integrated screen -Figures 15 and 16-, especially when you prefer to use the display module -Figures 18 and 19- or simply have compatible external screens, in which case the dimensions of the module would be between 3 to 12 cm (k2) by 2 to 8 cm (m2) by 2 to 10 cm in thickness or height (n2).

The device includes multiple peripheral optional modules, which are connected to the PCU in a wired or wireless way, both the input or output of digital or analog signals to or from the central unit and each other, being among other possible, the module of selection mechanisms (II ^* ), the display module (), the sound module, and the connection module to other devices or devices with electronic components (IV ^* ) that allow the user to interact with the device and access its functions, according to the modularity described above.

Examples of application of the selection mechanism -Figures 8 to 12- of which there may be one or more modules (Ι) connected simultaneously with or without solar panels for their power supply, and with which the user interacts to access the PASP, would be determined by different configurations:

a) A central selection module -MCS- (II ^* ) -Figures 1 1 and 12- with which they interact and are connected in turn, in wired (f1 (ll) ^** ) or wireless (f2 (ll) ^** or g2 (ll) ^** ) from 2 to a maximum of 10 individual push buttons, each physically identifiable by its appearance, as the color of each, and at the level of its electronic or digital configuration, by a code unique that allows you to be identified in the MCS, in turn determining how many push buttons are connected to the CPU at the same time, adapting the PASP according to the amount of push buttons connected to facilitate user interaction, there being at least one menu / context selector ( g2 (ll) * ^* ) and one or more of function / matrix (f1 (ll) ^** ) and (f2 (ll) ^** ). The dimensions of the central module would be delimited by a housing made of plastic or similar material shock-resistant, from 2 to 10 cm (a ^** ) by 1 to 5 cm (b **) by 1 to 5 cm (d ^** ) in height.

b) A central selection module -MCS- (Ι) -Figures 5, 8 to 10- in a single shared housing, with variable configurations of 3 to 10 buttons, each one physically identifiable by its appearance, as the color of each, in turn, determining how many push buttons are connected to the CPU at the same time, adapting the PASP according to the connected push-button quantities, to facilitate user interaction. The dimensions of the central module, in an example of application, would be delimited by a housing of plastic or other similar material that is resistant to impacts, formed by half of an ellipse whose largest diameter (a ^* ) is 20 to 70 cm, and the lower diameter (b *) (of which only half the surface of the device) maintains a proportion with the previous one between 0.5 to 0.9 (diameter that defines an imaginary axis that goes from the center of the ellipse if it were complete - central reference point - to the extreme end of the same -point of extreme reference-), with a thickness or height of the device between 1 to 30% of the largest diameter (a *), which can be constant or go in slope from the point of greatest height (d *), to a smaller thickness equivalent to between 1 to 30% of the greater thickness at the opposite extreme reference point (d1 ^* ) -Figure 10-.

Likewise, and optionally - the CPU can have an integrated screen (c ^* ) -Figures 5, 13 and 14- - to the CPU can connect an external screen, or one or more display modules () -Figures 18 and 19-, in wired or wireless form, that allow the user to review the interaction with the PASP. Application examples of the visualization module would be determined by:

a) A housing -Figures 18 and 19-, with a digital screen (c ^** ), with or without image or sound replicators, which can have a secure attachment system on the back to be supported on its own legs or physical devices of continuous use, such as a wheelchair or the study table, for example, or else, you can have support extenders in the lower part, which allow the front to be coupled to the single-casing MCS, and on the back, to the CPU. Said extenders can optionally be support and data exchange. Said casing, depending on the size of the integrated screen, would be from 6 to 30 cm (p1) by 6 to 25 cm (q1) by 2 to 10 cm in height (r1).

b) A housing with an image and / or sound replicator for one or more devices in wired or wireless form, such as a television, a computer screen or a projector, for example, with multiple ports, including, among others, HDMI, VGA, RCA, and audio output.

The display module can eventually be replaced by a commercial electronic tablet, which, if connected to the CPU, would interact on the basis of an application designed to communicate with said tablet and the CPU with their respective interconnected modules, enhancing the functionality of the UCP supported in the same capacities of the selected tablet, accessing even from the device to other applications of frequent use in said tablet. When the user prefers it, he can dispense with the PCU and interact directly with the MCS and the tablet, depending on the capabilities of the latter.

Other optional modules to connect to the CPU are:

a) One or more sound modules with speakers inside, which allow to guide the interaction with audible signals programmed in the PASP, depending on the function that the user is accessing the device, as well as, as the user interacts with the communication modules personal, facilitate interaction with other people located in the immediate environment of the user.

b) One or more communication modules (IV ^* ) with devices and physical devices that have electronic, sensors and / or actuators, and connectivity -Figure 20-, which interact in an assisted way with the user through the PASP, with its own programming by type and functionalities of said devices or devices, allowing it to obtain more autonomy, reduce human efforts, extending the potential of the user's actions in his home and / or the environments where it is developed.

Through the integrated ports of the PCU or its peripheral modules, the PASP facilitates permanent connectivity over the internet to external servers in a flexible and adaptive manner, which allows strengthening and expanding the functions of the device according to the user's required use, unique or especially in a multi-user environment, including: expanding the CPU's virtual processing and storage capacity by outsourcing functions to these servers; access to computer modules, databases and functionalities, among others, that allow complementing and enhancing the PASP and user interactions with the device, which, optionally, can be downloaded to the device or accessed directly online from the servers to be used. external; bring the progress record to learning facilitated by assistance from tutors / educators at a distance, or personal communication features or devices, facilitating user support and self-adaptiveness of the device; support with the integration and communication with new devices or physical devices interconnected with the device; update and adapt the PASP including language and interaction mechanisms with the user, depending on their demographic, geographical and Psychographic characteristics, among others, including the user's own disabilities; configuration and online update of the direct device from the web or mobile applications according to the user (s) and their requirements; ability to monitor or control by the tutor and / or person who assists him in certain functionality of the device, allowing the latter the remote interaction with the user; among several others.

The method on which the functionality of the device is accessed is articulated on the Progressive Selection of Multiple Alternatives -SPMA-, through a self-configuring computer platform in a personalized way for each user, as well as according to the number and type of modules or interconnected peripheral mechanisms, to compose or integrate more complex goals according to the selected process and the function desired by the user. The SP A process is articulated in the presentation of multiple matrices, visualized through the integrated screen (c, c * oc ^** ) to the CPU or the connected visualization modules or mechanisms (I o), each matrix individually identified between yes, for example by the color, with one or more elements inside, showing, according to the configuration of the number of arrays displayed -NMD- simultaneously and the screen size to be used. The maximum number of matrices to be used -NME- by the user (usually 2 to 10), value greater than or equal to NMD and also configured by the user, limits the maximum number of elements within each matrix, this number corresponding to NME, regardless of whether they are displayed simultaneously or not on the screen. Using the menu mechanism (g, g (ll) ^* , or g2 (ll) * ^* ) -from now on simply g- the user can reach the matrices that are not yet displayed on the screen, and the selection of options it will do through the function mechanisms (f, f (ll) ^* , f1 (ll) ^* * or f2 (ll) ^* *) -frequently simply f-.

Through interaction with the selection module (II or II ^* ), the PASP using the SPMA process, a process supported by an artificial intelligence correction system with manual configuration according to the user's disability and self-configuration when it detects patterns of use and / or repeated errors attributed to disabilities registered by the system, allows interaction with the user in the following way:

a) Configuration of the function that each function mechanism (f) or menu (g) of the Selection Module will have, according to the following options:

i) Highlight / Select a matrix -by default when the number of function mechanisms (f) corresponds or exceeds the NME, automatically identifying in the PASP each matrix with each identifier -color, for example- of the available mechanisms (f) ) -;

ii) Highlight a single matrix between a Number of Arrays identified with the same Color -NMC- (alternating between the different matrices of the same color each time the mechanism (f) is activated) when the NME exceeds the Quantity of Function Mechanisms -CMF-, the PASP automatically identifying the smallest possible size of NMC according to the NME / CMF quotient, assigning an additional matrix to each group of the same color until the residue of said quotient is completed;

iii) Select a Highlight matrix when there is more than one menu mechanism (g) interacting and the NMC is in some case greater than one, the PASP automatically differentiating a menu mechanism (g) only for this function and the rest for other functions of menu; Y

iv) Menu functions, displaying the contents of the potential menu options as matrix alternatives, to be selected according to procedures i and ii, including the Select function in the case of a single menu mechanism (g).

b) When selecting a matrix, two potential paths to follow will be executed: i) When the matrix has more than one element in its interior, the PASP will visualize the elements as new options matrices, replacing the previous ones, identified as their own. predecessors, showing the new options as elements of the new matrices deployed, grouping the elements of these new options according to preconfigured groupings; ii) When the matrix has an element inside it, the PASP will execute / perform the preconfigured function for that selected element.

An example of application of how the PASP uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to learn in a thematic area or specific subject, comprises the following stages:

a) Depending on the subject or subject of learning and the level of specialization / domain of the subject by the user (which can be manually configured, or updated by the PASP according to the progress shown during the use), and through the peripherals of visualization and / or audio, poses a goal or learning problem to be assimilated or resolved by the user. b) The user can request during the process extension or support to assimilate, understand, or solve the approach, changing the degree of detail of the information provided according to the learning process or the user level, making the user even available to request a new approach of goal or problem when it deems convenient.

c) Using the SPMA the user will interact with the device, forming step by step a set of elements that responds to the approach, to assimilate the knowledge or develop the response to it, when the same approach requires a gradual construction; or select the option considered correct, when this is simply to select a possible option among the available alternatives, to respond to the approach.

d) As the approach is resolved by the user, the PASP will produce an immediate notification of success / error when in exercise mode; or else, it will register the selection in order to communicate it through the ports, modules or output devices, to a tutor tutor or face-to-face educator, or in its absence to a virtual tutor, when it is in evaluation mode.

e) Achieved the goal of learning a new goal or learning problem will be raised to the user, there is always the possibility that the user can go to a new menu of interaction with the device, to change the subject area or subject, or functionality of the device itself.

Similarly, an example of how the PASP uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to communication comprises the following stages:

a) Using the SPMA, the user can: (a) select a character to gradually build words / phrases to communicate; (b) select a pre-programmed and / or personalized message, which can be incorporated into the phrase under construction or split a sentence and then complement it by gradually selecting characters; or (c) select a word from the available ones shown by the system as those anticipated for the user according to the progress of the linguistic construction. The interaction between the 3 options to complete the message can be done as many times as the user requires.

b) Using the SPMA the user, at the time he decides and as many times as he considers necessary, he will be able to reproduce the message through the audio mechanisms assisted by a computer program able to read it, or, according to the physical configuration of the device and available permits, make a phone call and transmit the message read by the PASP, or send it by SMS, or through communication devices, send it to other external electronic devices to be communicated to third parties, even on mobile applications or on the internet (like WhatsApp or others).

Similarly, an example of how the PASP uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to interact with devices and physical devices with electronic components, includes the functionality in which the user can select the device or artifact from the environment physical, previously interconnected to the PCU through the communication module with devices and devices, or directly from the wired or wireless ports that are available in the PCU, allowing the user, once selected, and according to the available interaction options for that type of device or artifact and the interaction capabilities reported to the CPU by the device or device itself with which the interconnection has been made, show and allow the user to select matrices / details of alternatives to produce an action in, control or obtain a information of said device or artifact, according to the previous configured for said user, achieving through the selection of said alternative, is made in the physical environment and in said device or artifact, the sought and selected change among the alternatives of the PASP.

Claims

1.- An electronic device to support one or more users in multi-thematic multi-level learning; facilitate direct and remote personal communication; as well as configure, communicate with, and / or control devices and physical devices that have electronic, sensors and / or actuators, and connectivity; supported by a computer program of the device based on a progressive assisted multiple selection process, comprising: a central unit with a digital processor and their respective electronic circuits to operate, multiple communication ports, and a computer program to interact with the user, CHARACTERIZED because it also includes an Assisted Platform of Progressive Selection: -PASP- where the user operates the device by means of a progressive selection from a set or group of selectors that make up a selection mechanism, where with said selection mechanism the user interacts to access the selection of multiple alternatives, advancing by means of expanding matrices towards their elements in a progressive way, until reaching the desired detailed option and being able to execute the previously programmed function.

2. An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 1, characterized in that its physical configuration can be mono-modular or made up of multiple modules, the computer program being the same. , autoconfigurable according to the module or devices interacting with it in a specific instance, allowing to expand or reduce the number of modules according to the need and punctual requirement of the user. .

3. An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and appliances, according to claim 2, characterized in that in its mono-modular version is formed by a lightweight but shock-resistant housing, which can be plastic (High Density Polyethylene, ABS or other plastics or combinations between them), and counts on the top cover with a screen of 5 to 15 inches (I), and 2 to 10 buttons (II) (individualized to each other through figures distinctive, slits, relief, color, among others), in the lateral dorsal cover the optional physical ports of connection and communication (IV, VII, IX, X, XI, XII), and in its interior a central unit of processing and components electronic to execute the functions of the device, being optional to have additional solar panels on the outside for power, as well as camcorder and microphone.

4. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and appliances, according to claim 3, characterized in that their faces or covers are delimited by half of an ellipse whose largest diameter (a) is 40 to 70 cm, and the lower diameter (b) (of which only half the surface of the device) maintains a proportion with the previous one between 0.5 to 0.7 (diameter that defines an imaginary axis that goes from the center of the ellipse if complete - central reference point - to the extreme end of it - extreme reference point -), with a thickness or height of the device between 1 to 30% of the largest diameter (a), which can be constant or go in slope from the central reference point with said thickness or height (d), to a smaller thickness equivalent to between 1 to 30% of the greater thickness, at the extreme reference point (d1).

5. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 2,

CHARACTERIZED because in the modular configuration, the device may or may not include one or more of the following modules: module or central processing unit -UCP- (III ^* ), selection mechanisms module (Ι), display module (), sound module, and connection module to other devices or devices with electronic components (IV *), all of them interconnected wired or wirelessly.

6. - An electronic device to support the learning, personal communication, and control of devices and devices, according to claim 5, characterized in that the CPU is protected by a lightweight shock-resistant housing, usually made of plastic, inside which there is a digital signal processor and electronic circuits required for proper operation, and multiple wired communication / interaction ports (such as power, USB, HDMI, slot for flash memory card) and wireless (such as WiFi and Bluettoht), showing the physical ports on one side of it and / or optionally with a SIM card slot, or have solar panels for electrical operation.

7. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and devices, according to claim 5, characterized in that the CPU can have a digital screen (c ^* ) integrated in the housing, whose dimensions of the module would be between 4 to 28 cm (k1, k3) by 2 to 22 cm (m1, m3) by 3 to 10 cm of thickness or height (n1 or n3), or in the case that continues with slope, ending in a thickness of 1 to 5 cm (n3 *); or, as the user prefers, the CPU may not have an integrated screen, in which case the module dimensions would be between 3 to 12 cm (k2) by 2 to 8 cm (m2) by 2 to 10 cm in thickness or height ( n2).

8. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 5, CHARACTERIZED because of the selection mechanisms module, through which the user mainly interacts with the device to access the PASP, which may or may not have solar panels for its power supply, has a Central Selection Module -MCS- (Ι) interacting with two or more buttons individually identified from each other at a physical level as well as their digital configuration, integrated or not in a single unit or housing, there being at least one menu / context selector (g (ll) ^* , g2 (ll) ^** ) and one or more function / matrix (f (ll) *, f1 (ll ) ^** , and (f2 (ll) ^* *).

9. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 8, characterized in that in the module of non-integrated selection mechanisms, the MCS is connected to the push buttons in wired form (f1 (ll) * ^* ) or wireless (f2 (ll) ** or g2 (ll) * ^* ).

10. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 9, characterized in that in the module of non-integrated selection mechanisms, the MCS would be delimited by a housing of plastic material or other similar shock-resistant, from 2 to 10 cm (a ^** ) by 1 to 5 cm (b **) by 1 to 5 cm (d **) in height.

1 1. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 8,

CHARACTERIZED because in the module of integrated selection mechanisms, the MCS shares the housing of plastic material or another similar shock resistant, with 3 to 10 buttons, consisting of half an ellipse whose largest diameter (a ^* ) is 20 a 70 cm, and the lower diameter (b ^* ) (of which only half the surface of the device) maintains a proportion with the previous one between 0.5 to 0.9 (diameter that defines an imaginary axis that goes from the center of the ellipse if complete - central reference point - to the extreme end of the ellipse - extreme reference point-), with a thickness or height of the device between 1 to 30% of the largest diameter (a ^* ), which can be constant or going in slope from the point of greatest height (d *), to a smaller thickness equivalent to between 1 to 30% of the greater thickness at the opposite extreme reference point (d1 ^* ).

12. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 5,

CHARACTERIZED because in the display module () they may or may not count with digital screen (c **), image or sound replicators, and / or multiple video connection ports (HDMI, VGA, RCA, among others) or audio.

13. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and artifacts, according to claim 12,

CHARACTERIZED because in the visualization module () with digital screen (c ^* *), it would be delimited by a plastic or other similar housing resistant to shocks, whose dimensions are mainly conditioned by the size of the integrated screen, would be 6 to 30 cm (p1) by 6 to 25 cm (q1) by 2 to 10 cm in height (r1).

14. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and devices, according to claim 5, CHARACTERIZED because the communication module (IV ^* ) with devices and physical devices that have electronic, sensors and / or actuators , and connectivity, allows interacting with said devices and devices in an assisted form with the user through the PASP, with its own programming by type and functionality of each one, allowing it to obtain more autonomy, reduce human efforts, extending the potential of the user actions in your home and / or the environments where the user develops.

15. - An electronic device to support learning, personal communication, and control of devices and devices, according to claim 5, characterized in that the CPU can be wired or wirelessly connected, one or more sound modules with speakers in its internal, which allow to guide the interaction with audible signals programmed in the PASP and communicate with other people in the direct environment of the user.

16.- A method of support for multi-thematic learning, personal communication close or remote, and / or interaction with devices and interconnected devices, based on the progressive selection of multiple alternatives through few mechanisms of interaction with the user, which is used in the device according to any of claims 1 to 15, CHARACTERIZED because through the ports integrated in the CPU or its peripheral modules, it facilitates permanent connectivity over the internet to external servers in a flexible and adaptive way, to strengthen and expand the functions of the device according to the use required by the single user or especially in a multi-user environment.

17. - An assisted method of support for learning, personal communication, and / or interaction with interconnected devices and devices, based on the progressive selection of multiple alternatives, according to claim 16, CHARACTERIZED because it is articulated in the presentation of multiple matrices , visualized through the integrated screen to the CPU or connected modules or visualization mechanisms, each matrix individually identified among themselves, for example by color, with one or more elements inside, showing, according to the configuration of the number of matrices deployed -NMD- simultaneously and screen size to be used, considering that the maximum number of matrices to be used -NME- by the user, value greater than or equal to NMD and equally configurable by the user, limits the maximum number of elements within the each matrix (corresponding this number to the NME) regardless of whether they are displayed simultaneously or not on the screen the, considering that using the menu mechanism (g, g (ll) *, or g2 (ll) ^** ) -from now on simply g- the user can reach the matrices that are not yet displayed on the screen, and the selection of the options will do so through the function mechanisms (f, f (ll) ^* , f1 (ll) ** or f2 (ll) **) -frequently simply f-.

18. - A assisted method of support for learning, personal communication, and / or interaction with devices and interconnected devices, based on the progressive selection of multiple alternatives, according to claim 17, CHARACTERIZED because through the interaction with the module of selection, PASP (using the SPMA process, process supported by a system of artificial intelligence of correction with manual configuration according to the user's disability and autoconfiguration when it detects usage patterns and / or repeated errors attributed to disabilities registered by the system) allows interaction with the user according to the following steps:

a) configure the function that each function mechanism (f) or menu (g) of the Selection Module will have, according to the following options:

i) highlight / select a matrix - by default when the number of function mechanisms (f) corresponds or exceeds the NME, automatically identifying in the PASP each matrix with each identifier - color, for example - of the available mechanisms (f) ) -;

ii) highlight a single matrix between a Number of Arrays identified with the same Color -NMC- (alternating between the different matrices of the same color each time the mechanism (f) is activated) when the NME exceeds the Number of Function Mechanisms -CMF-, the PASP automatically identifying the smallest possible size of NMC according to the NME / CMF quotient, assigning an additional matrix to each group of the same color until the residual of said quotient is completed;

iii) select a highlighted matrix when there is more than one menu mechanism (g) interacting and the NMC is in some case greater than one, the PASP automatically differentiating a menu mechanism (g) only for this function and the rest for other functions of menu; Y

iv) Menu functions, visualizing the content of the potential menu options as matrix alternatives, to be selected according to procedures i and ii, including the function of selecting in the case of a single menu mechanism (g);

b) when selecting a matrix, two potential paths to follow will be executed: i) When the matrix has more than one element in its interior, the PASP will visualize the elements as new options matrices, replacing the previous ones, identified as their own. predecessors, showing the new options as elements of the new matrices deployed, grouping the elements of these new options according to preconfigured groupings; ii) When the matrix has in its interior a element, the PASP will execute / perform the preconfigured function for that selected element.

19.- An assisted method of support for learning, personal communication, and / or interaction with devices and interconnected devices, based on the progressive selection of multiple alternatives, according to claim 18, CHARACTERIZED because an example of application of how PASP uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to learn in a thematic area or specific subject, comprising the following stages:

a) depending on the subject or subject of learning and the level of specialization / domain of the subject by the user (which can be manually configured, or updated by the PASP according to the progress shown during the use), and through the peripherals of visualization and / or audio, poses a goal or learning problem to be assimilated or resolved by the user;

b) the user can request during the process extension or support to assimilate, understand, or resolve the approach, changing the degree of detail of the information provided according to the learning process or user level, making the user even available to request a new approach of goal or problem when it deems convenient;

c) using the SPMA the user will interact with the device, forming step by step a set of elements that responds to the approach, to assimilate the knowledge or develop the response to it, when the same approach requires a gradual construction; or select the option considered correct, when it is simply to select a possible option among the available alternatives, to respond to the approach;

d) as the approach is resolved by the user, the PASP will produce an immediate notification of success / error when in exercise mode; or else, it will register the selection in order to communicate it through the ports, modules or output devices, to a tutor tutor or face-to-face educator, or in its absence to a virtual tutor, when it is in evaluation mode; e) achieved the learning goal a new goal or learning problem will be raised to the user, there is always the possibility that the user can go to a new menu of interaction with the device, to change the subject area or subject, or functionality of the device itself.

20. - An assisted method of learning support, personal communication, and / or interaction with interconnected devices and devices, based on the progressive selection of multiple alternatives, according to claim 18, CHARACTERIZED because an example of how PASP is applied uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to the communication comprises the following stages:

a) using the SPMA, the user can: (a) select a character to gradually build words / phrases to communicate; (b) select a pre-programmed and / or personalized message, which can be incorporated into the phrase under construction or split a sentence and then complement it by gradually selecting characters; or (c) select a word from the available ones shown by the system as those anticipated for the user according to the progress of the linguistic construction. The interaction between the 3 options to complete the message can be done as many times as the user requires;

21. - An assisted method of support for learning, personal communication, and / or interaction with devices and interconnected devices, based in the progressive selection of multiple alternatives, according to claim 18, CHARACTERIZED because an application example of how the PASP uses the SPMA process assisting and supporting the user to the interaction with physical devices and devices with electronic components, comprises the functionality in the which the user will be able to select the device or artifact from the physical environment, previously interconnected to the CPU through the communication module with devices and artifacts, or directly from the wired or wireless ports that are available in the PCU, allowing the user, once selected, and according to the available interaction options for that type of device or artifact and the interaction capabilities reported to the CPU by the device or device with which the interconnection has been performed, show and allow the user to select matrices / details of alternatives to produce a performance in, control or obtain information from said device or artifact, according to the permissions previously configured for said user, achieving through the selection of said alternative, be made in the physical environment and in said device or artifact, the

functionality and use required.