Abstract
Current Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCAs) give little support for playing with sounds and blending these into words. This paper presents a joystick that can be used to access six different letter sounds (phonics) and blend them into short words. Seven children (five with some degree of physical and/or learning disability) showed their ability to use the device after only one 20 minutes introduction session.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ASSETS'11 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 325-326 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-0920-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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1st Place, Student Research Competition Graduate Award
Black, R. (Recipient), 24 Oct 2011
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