Desperately seeking simplicity

Dawe, Melissa

doi:10.1145/1124772.1124943

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“…By asking questions on how the ATC was used in its everyday context, Paper I was able to determine that the parents, rather than the children, were formulating the plan. This result complements earlier research that has found that ATCs often are left unused, but have not been able to provide a comprehensive explanation as to why (Dawe, 2006;Scherer & Federici, 2015;Wessels et al, 2004). The need for an intermediary user could be a contributing reason, as it makes planning time-and energy-consuming for the parents, which the parents reported as a drawback of the ATCs.…”

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confidence: 62%

Time to Plan : How to support everyday planning in adolescents with intellectual disability

Palmqvist

2020

Studies From the Swedish Institute for Disability Research

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Studies from the Swedish Institute for Disability Research No. 100 At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University, research and doctoral studies are carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research environments and doctoral studies mainly in graduate schools. Jointly, they publish the series Linköping Studies in Arts and Science. This thesis comes from the Swedish Institute for Disability Research at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning.

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Time to Plan : How to support everyday planning in adolescents with intellectual disability

Palmqvist

2020

Studies From the Swedish Institute for Disability Research

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“…In such research, the (potential) rarity of the disease itself is merely incidental. The focus is instead on how a wide range of technologies such as stylus-based text entry [62], gaze detection to support interaction with devices [29,30], smart wheelchairs [59] and wheelchairspecific adaptations [12] might have utility for people with physical [55] or cognitive disabilities [16]. In many cases, the emphasis is on individual rehabilitation and participation (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Technology and the Politics of Mobility

Rodger

Vines

McLaughlin

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Digital technologies offer the possibility of community empowerment via the reconfiguration of public services. This potential relies on actively involved citizens engaging with decision makers to pursue civic goals. In this paper we study one such group of involved citizens, examining the evidencing practices of a rare disease charity campaigning for accessible public transport. Through fieldwork and interviews, we highlight the ways in which staff and volunteers assembled and presented different forms of evidence, in doing so reframing what is conceived as 'valid knowledge'. We note the challenges this group faced in capturing experiential knowledge around the accessibility barriers of public transport, and the trade-offs that are made when presenting evidence to policy and decision makers. We offer a number of design considerations for future HCI research, focusing on how digital technology might be configured more appropriately to support campaigning around the politics of mobility.

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“…The importance of the digital society in various aspects of our lives is undeniable. Allowing people with cognitive disabilities to independently use the Internet can increase their quality of life, by reducing social isolation (Newell and Gregor 2000; Davies, Stock and Wehmeyer 2001; Dawe 2006).…”

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Translating text into pictographs

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We describe and evaluate a text-to-pictograph translation system that is used in an online platform for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, which is intended for people who are not able to read and write, but who still want to communicate with the outside world. The system is set up to translate from Dutch into Sclera and Beta, two publicly available pictograph sets consisting of several thousands of pictographs each. We have linked large amounts of these pictographs to synsets or combinations of synsets of Cornetto, a lexical-semantic database for Dutch similar to WordNet. In the translation system, the Dutch input text undergoes shallow linguistic analysis and the synsets of the content words are looked up. The system looks for the nearest pictographs in the lexical-semantic database and displays the message into pictographs. We evaluated the system and results showed a large improvement over the baseline system which consisted of straightforward string-matching between the input text and the filenames of the pictographs.Our system provides a clear improvement in the communication possibilities of illiterate people. Nevertheless there is room for further improvement.

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Desperately seeking simplicity

Cited by 171 publications

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Time to Plan : How to support everyday planning in adolescents with intellectual disability

Time to Plan : How to support everyday planning in adolescents with intellectual disability

Technology and the Politics of Mobility

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