Annalu Waller

Personal profile

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

Master of Science, University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Science, University of Cape Town

Keywords

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

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Projects 2013 2022

1 Not started
2 Finished
2 Active

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

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

Giving People a Voice - Telling The Story

Black, R. & Waller, A.

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 1992 2019

1327 Citations
17 h-Index
33 Article
27 Conference contribution
13 Paper
8 Chapter
23 More

1 Citation (Scopus)

83 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

Open Access

File

Software design

Switches

Intellectual disability

Evaluation

Serious games

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

education

occupational therapy

computer science

engineer

disability

47 Downloads (Pure)

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

File

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

special education

communication

special education school

classroom

multiple disabilities

Learning to Self-Manage by Intelligent Monitoring, Prediction and Intervention

Wiratunga, N., Corsar, D., Martin, K., Wijekoon, A., Elyan, E., Cooper, K., Ibrahim, Z., Celiktutan, O., Dobson, R. J., McKenna, S., Morris, J., Waller, A., Abd-Alhammed, R., Qahwaji, R. & Chaudhuri, R., 2019, KDH 2019: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data. Wiratunga, N., Coenen, F. & Sani, S. (eds.). Germany: CEUR-WS, Vol. 2429. p. 60-67 8 p. 10. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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

Open Access

File

Monitoring