Conversational Agency in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Valencia, Stephanie; Pavel, Amy; Maria, Jared Santa; Yu, Seunga; Bigham, Jeffrey P.; Admoni, Henny

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376376

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“…89,90,134,154]. Most papers focusing on execution approached agency and autonomy in a less atomistic manner: focusing, for example, on narrative choice [e.g., 30] and control of action in video games [e.g., 17,88,96,147], people's involvement in everyday personal activities [23,162], or data analysis [116].…”

Section: Aspects Of Autonomy and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of other papers suggested that having a role in decision without involvement in execution resulted in diminished agency: Performing activities for oneself was seen to support agency and sense-of-self for people in supported living [102,169]. Loss of executional agency was associated with loss of flexibility and adaptation both during supported communication [162], and in interaction with intelligent technologies [108,155,176].…”

Section: Aspects Of Autonomy and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Deterding discussed how individual episodes of life-situated video-game play were impacted by contextual factors, such as the need to "make time" for play by clearing other tasks [44]. Other examples deployed apps for emotional communication to families and couples [108] for a number of weeks, or combined lab-based experiments on the use of assistive communication-devices with user interviews [162].…”

Section: Time-scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fewer still articulate distinctions within these definitions that are relevant to their work. In future, more work might follow the example of papers in our corpus [e.g., 64,162] and clarify issues in their domain by articulating distinctions between aspects of agency and autonomy: for example, between decisional and executional autonomy [64], or between technical (closely related to our our category of execution) and colloquial agency (mapping to our categories of decision/self-congruence) [162]. Such distinctions were operative in much work in our corpus, but left implicit.…”

Section: Clarifying Agency and Autonomy As Boundary Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

Bennett,

Metatla,

Roudaut

et al. 2023

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Human agency and autonomy have always been fundamental concepts in HCI. New developments, including ubiquitous AI and the growing integration of technologies into our lives, make these issues ever pressing, as technologies increase their ability to influence our behaviours and values. However, in HCI understandings of autonomy and agency remain ambiguous. Both concepts are used to describe a wide range of phenomena pertaining to sense-of-control, material independence, and identity. It is unclear to what degree these understandings are compatible, and how they support the development of research programs and practical interventions. We address this by reviewing 30 years of HCI research on autonomy and agency to identify current understandings, open issues, and future directions. From this analysis, we identify ethical issues, and outline key themes to guide future work. We also articulate avenues for advancing clarity and specificity around these concepts, and for coordinating integrative work across different HCI communities. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Section: Aspects Of Autonomy and Agencymentioning

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How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

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Roudaut

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“…Many individuals who have been prescribed high-tech AAC devices end up abandoning them due to bad user interface, physical access limitations, the cognitive load required to learn them, or due to a lack of access to an expert (Waller, 2019). Those that continue to use their devices face limitations with conversational agency in terms of conversational, task, and device constraints (Valencia et al, 2020). Incorporating Dialogue Act information into an AAC interface would improve the ability of AAC communicators to participate in conversations.…”

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Dialogue Act Classification for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Perkoff¹

2021

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact

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Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and applications are intended to make it easier for individuals with complex communication needs to participate in conversations. However, these devices have low adoption and retention rates. We review prior work with text recommendation systems that have not been successful in mitigating these problems. To address these gaps, we propose applying Dialogue Act classification to AAC conversations. We evaluated the performance of a state of the art model on a limited AAC dataset that was trained on both AAC and non-AAC datasets. The one trained on AAC (accuracy = 38.6%) achieved better performance than that trained on a non-AAC corpus (accuracy = 34.1%). These results reflect the need to incorporate representative datasets in later experiments. We discuss the need to collect more labeled AAC datasets and propose areas of future work.

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Prompting for repair as a language teaching strategy for augmentative and alternative communication

Cooper

Soto

Clarke

2021

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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Conversational repair has been found to play a fundamental role in the acquisition of language.This paper describes existing research on conversational repair and its relationship to language learning, whether a first language or a second language, as well as its relevance to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). A case is made for incorporating prompts to repair in conversation-based language interventions with children learning to use AAC. We argue that interventions targeting linguistic complexity should encourage self-repair in conversation in order to develop linguistic and operational competency as well as increase automaticity when using AAC. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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Conversational Agency in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

Dialogue Act Classification for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Prompting for repair as a language teaching strategy for augmentative and alternative communication

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