Supporting personal narrative for children with complex communication needs. / Black, Rolf; Waller, Annalu; Turner, Ross; Reiter, Ehud.
In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 19, No. 2, 07.2012, p. -, 15.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Supporting personal narrative for children with complex communication needs
A1 - Black,Rolf
A1 - Waller,Annalu
A1 - Turner,Ross
A1 - Reiter,Ehud
AU - Black,Rolf
AU - Waller,Annalu
AU - Turner,Ross
AU - Reiter,Ehud
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - <p>Children with complex communication needs who use voice output communication aids seldom engage in extended conversation. The "How was School today. . . ?" system has been designed to enable such children to talk about their school day. The system uses data-to-text technology to generate narratives from sensor data. Observations, interviews and prototyping were used to ensure that stakeholders were involved in the design of the system. Evaluations with three children showed that the prototype system, which automatically generates utterances, has the potential to support disabled individuals to participate better in interactive conversation. Analysis of a conversational transcript and observations indicate that the children were able to access relevant conversation and had more control in the conversation in comparison to their usual interactions where control lay mainly with the speaking partner. Further research to develop an improved, more rugged system that supports users with different levels of language ability is now underway.</p>
AB - <p>Children with complex communication needs who use voice output communication aids seldom engage in extended conversation. The "How was School today. . . ?" system has been designed to enable such children to talk about their school day. The system uses data-to-text technology to generate narratives from sensor data. Observations, interviews and prototyping were used to ensure that stakeholders were involved in the design of the system. Evaluations with three children showed that the prototype system, which automatically generates utterances, has the potential to support disabled individuals to participate better in interactive conversation. Analysis of a conversational transcript and observations indicate that the children were able to access relevant conversation and had more control in the conversation in comparison to their usual interactions where control lay mainly with the speaking partner. Further research to develop an improved, more rugged system that supports users with different levels of language ability is now underway.</p>
U2 - 10.1145/2240156.2240163
DO - 10.1145/2240156.2240163
M1 - Article
JO - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
JF - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
SN - 1073-0516
IS - 2
VL - 19
SP - -
ER -