Annalu Waller

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Research

Annalu Waller has worked in the field of Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) since 1985, designing communication systems for and with nonspeaking individuals. She established the first AAC assessment and training centre in South Africa in 1987 before coming to Dundee in 1989. Her PhD developed narrative technology support for adults with acquired dysphasia following stroke. Her primary research areas are human computer interaction, natural language processing, personal narrative and assistive technology. In particular, she focuses on empowering end users, including disabled adults and children, by involving them in the design and use of technology. She manages a number of interdisciplinary research projects with industry and practitioners from rehabilitation engineering, special education, speech and language therapy, nursing and dentistry. She is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and sits on the boards of a number of national and international organisations representing disabled people. Annalu leads the AAC Research Group in the School of Computing which seeks to develop technology with and for people with limited or no speech.

Teaching

Annalu has over 25 years of teaching experience during which she has taught introductory programming (Pascal, C, Java); Database Systems; Human Computer Interaction and aspects of Assistive Technology to a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students. Her teaching philosophy stems from a desire to enable students to reach their individual potential and to equip them as future leaders.

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Dundee

Award Date: 1 Jan 1992

Master of Science, University of Cape Town

Award Date: 1 Jan 1988

Bachelor of Science, University of Cape Town

Award Date: 1 Jan 1983

Keywords

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

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Projects

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3 Finished

What We Dream Comes to Fruition: Diversity, Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction

Devarenne, N. & Waller, A.

Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities

14/01/19 → 13/01/22

Project: Research

Giving People a Voice - Telling The Story

Black, R. & Waller, A.

Project: Research

ACE-LP - Augmenting Communication Using Environmental Data to Drive Language Prediction (Joint with University of Cambridge)

Black, R., McKenna, S., Waller, A. & Zhang, J.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/02/16 → 31/01/20

Project: Research

Training Task Switching to Decrease Temper Outbursts in People with PWS

Waller, A.

19/11/14 → 18/11/15

Project: Research

Stories at the Dentist

Freeman, R. & Waller, A.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/01/13 → 30/09/14

Project: Research

Research Output

1371 Citations
17 h-Index
33 Article
28 Conference contribution
13 Paper
8 Chapter
23 More

A Design Engineering Approach for Quantitatively Exploring Context-Aware Sentence Retrieval for Nonspeaking Individuals with Motor Disabilities

Kristensson, P. O., Lilley, J., Black, R. & Waller, A., Apr 2020, CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-11 11 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

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9 Downloads (Pure)

Developing a Task Switching Training Game for Children With a Rare Genetic Syndrome Linked to Intellectual Disability

Robb, N., Waller, A. & Woodcock, K. A., 1 Apr 2019, In : Simulation and Gaming. 50, 2, p. 160-179 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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5 Citations (Scopus)

148 Downloads (Pure)

Digital Assistive Technology Education and Training

Waller, A., 27 Aug 2019, Proceedings of AAATE 2019 Conference Global Challenges in Assistive Technology: Research, Policy & Practice: Technology and Disability. Desideri, L., de Witte, L., Chattat, R. & Hoogerwerf, E-J. (eds.). Supp 1 ed. Holland: IOS Press, Vol. 31. p. 158 1 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Expecting the Unexpected in Participatory Design

Constantin, A., Korte, J., Fails, J. A., Alexandru, C. A., Dragomir, M., Pain, H., Good, J., Garzotto, F., Eriksson, E. & Waller, A., 2 May 2019, CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 1-4 4 p. SIG07. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

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83 Downloads (Pure)

Exploring the Role of Assistive Technologist within a Special Education Setting

Norrie, C., Waller, A. & Hannah, B., 27 Aug 2019, AAATE 2019 Conference: Global Challenges in Assistive Technology: Research, Policy & Practice. Desideri, L., de Witte, L., Chattat, R. & Hoogerwerf, E-J. (eds.). Supp 1 ed. Holland: IOS Press, Vol. 31. p. 48-49 1 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution